On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:09:28 GMT, Altum wrote:

BTW, you should see the pictures of livers from discus fed on beef heart
in his book. The livers are huge, not functioning properly, and filled
with fat globules. Animal fats are very bad for fish and both dog and
cat foods contain a lot of animal fat. Anyone feeding cat or dog food
had a look at their fishes livers?

Lots of the fishvets have, that teach the courses to the AKCA Koi Health
Advisors. Why I try to encourage people not to feed that stuff, to read
labels, etc.

IMHO, If money is an issue, it would be better to lower the fish load, and
only use a good quality processed food as a treat when you go out an visit
the fish. They can live off the pond, if it is large enough, planted &
established. Not to mention this will lower the maintenance on the filter.
~ jan
~ jan/WA
Zone 7a