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Foods and Feed:m
Most rien-aquatic animals can be fed quite easily, but in fishkeeping
feeding is an acquired skill calling for understanding and discipline
the part of the aquarist because the success of the whole er‘1viron—
ment will depend_0n the proper introduction of food. Feeding is
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therefore as much a technique as a routine, and fdod isa true factor
in the environment (see Chapter 2, p. 21).
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While food“ has the obvious property of keeping alive the inhabi—
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tants of the environment, it also has many other influences. Growth,
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healthand general well-being are determined by proper feeding. The
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ability of species/to
live together, their reproductive“potential;_ their
Condition and décorative
many other c“haracŒristiCs
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all dependent on the feedingmethods used. These same.Characteristicsfïare, of course, also dependent on other environmental factors;
but thepoint is that even
if these other factoisare peff‘ect,’bad féed'—
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ing will ‘spoil eyerything.
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Aquatic creatures are very—adaptable and will'quite
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to a variety of foods WhiCh are not found _in
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habitats. This fact“ is of imrhense‘béhefitt0 the aquarist
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