Re: NANFA-- large fish

Moontanman_at_aol.com
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:12:35 EDT

In a message dated 10/11/00 2:51:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
anutej_at_loxinfo.co.th writes:

<< If it is Pangasius hypothalmus [the irredescent shark that is mistakenly
called P.
sutchi and the only one that is commercially artificially bred for
aquaculture/pet
business] then it will eat a lot of pellet food, shrimp, artemia, any meaty
stuff
t >>
I looked it up on the web and they say the iridescent shark is a vegetarian
and the bigger it gets the more plant food it eats. The mouth is to small to
eat any thing other than very small fish which it will eat if them can catch
them but it mostly eats plants. The one I have has a very small mouth and
ignores small gambusia in it's tank as well as pellets of all types. i am
going to try some duckweed and se if it likes it any better,


Moon

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