"kathy" wrote in message
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Just make sure that their food is mostly
vegetable matter.
Their digestive systems are set up to be
vegetarians, the long coiled gut. When they
change they will be set up to be carnivores.

They do get animal protein in the pond, zoo
plankton caught up in the algae and they will
even nosh on a dead sibling but they need
lots of veggies.

That's good to know. I think they're mostly relying
on whatever came with the pond plants I included,
as well as algae growing in the Eclipse since I put
pond water in there. I'll be careful about supplements.

Gail