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Posted by pinkelephant on February 07, 2003 at 18:53:01:
In Reply to: Re: Need some expertise on fuzzy lion? posted by skip_16157 on February 07, 2003 at 08:23:45:
The freezing process causes a breakdown of many essential water-soluble viamins (mostly B vitamins) therefor frozen fish, squid, or anything else for that matter is supposedly somewhat lacking the nutritional value that the fish would get in the wild feeding on the same prey. Nevertheless, I feel that frozen silversides and squid are perhaps the best substitutes for captive fish as far as frozen live prey goes (although I'm not sure how much squid a lion would be eating in the wild). The nutritional value of these food items can be enhanced with vitamin/mineral supplements such as Zoe made by Kent Marine Systems. The silversides and sqiud don't absorb the amount of supplement as krill, I actually use a syringe and inject the silversides with supplement. The krill soak up a lot of supplement, but the fish don't seem to like the taste and I've had them spit it out on many occasion. Probably the best food for lion's (nutritionally speaking) would be the prepared foods such as Formula 1 and 2, Spirulina Formula (etc.) offered by Ocean Nutrition Corporation. Once you have a lion feeding on frozen live prey, you should be able to make the switch fairly easily. This food is made with a gel binder and therefor can be cut up and put on the end on a feeding stick to start with. My lion's love it, and I was able to do away with the feeding stick completely, they just eat it from the surface. I feel that variety is very important for fish and lion's are no exeption. Even though the prepared food's are very well balanced I still switch the Formula's and give them frozen live foods often. If all goes well you should have a happy healthy lion, just be patient. I hope this information is of use to you.
-Jon