ANS 282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Heart, Stainless Steel, Limescale
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Fish can be classified per their feeding habit into; Carnivores; meat eating fish, their git can only digest animal-based diet with high protein content. They need not less than 45% protein in their diet (earthworms, red worms, Tubifex worms + supplements in the form of flakes or granules and pellets for added nutrition. ) Herbivores: plant eating fish, their git can only digest plant-based diet (also eat algae and live plants in the aquarium) and extract nutrients out of it. (mollies: cucumber, peas and potatoes. These can be kept frozen and be chopped into tiny pieces at mealtime: vegetable flakes come in a variety of flavors, algal flakes will also be a favorite among this kind of fish. Omnivores; eat pretty much anything, and that makes them dangerous to plants as well as to other smaller creatures in your aquarium, includes most of the aquarium fish. Also, fish can be classified per their feeding style into:
