Lettuce...to be or not to be!?!Holy mother of pearl....... I don't even know what to say.
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Lettuce...to be or not to be!?!Holy mother of pearl....... I don't even know what to say.
For any that are still reading. Look at the guaranteed analysis on the back of flake food, whether spirulina or veggie, or whatever.
If you look at the link of the side by side comparison of lettuce to seaweed, tou will see they are different. Lettuce having significantly higher percentages in vitamins and the seaweed being higher in fatty content and minerals.To sum this up. Here is an example.
A person uses 14lbs of lime stone live rock and says why are my nitrates 80ppm.
Well that is, because you would need 100lbs+ of limestone to equal the amount of porosity of 14lbs of Fiji to be beneficial for your tank to be able to filter a 14 gallon tank and you can not put 100lbs of LR in a 14g tank. The size of porosity of 14lbs of limestone LR is probably the amount 2lbs fiji. We all know you can't use 2lbs of LR to filter a 14g.
Moral of the story. Lettuce is limestone and algae/seaweed is fiji.
Why are we still talking about this! This is like get the last word in club!
Look at the serving size please... Smh NO FISH EAT HUMAN SERVING SIZES!If you look at the link of the side by side comparison of lettuce to seaweed, tou will see they are different. Lettuce having significantly higher percentages in vitamins and the seaweed being higher in fatty content and minerals.
A more appropriate analogy would be comparing carbon dosing methods. Vodka and polymers both reduce nutrients, they just get there differently.
The serving size was the same for both so....Look at the serving size please... Smh NO FISH EAT HUMAN SERVING SIZES!
They have to eat it all day to get those benefits and they cannot digest it like they do Nori/Seaweed so the % will be lower.
Use ya brain for once people!
The fish the fish!!!! The fish do not eat human portion's!The serving size was the same for both so....
That's why it's in percentages. A 2000 calorie diet is about 100% of the daily intake for an average human. A fish's will be a fraction of that, probably closer to 20 calories and that will equal close to 100% of it's daily needs. For a fish to get it's daily need of a vitamin or mineral it will be within his quantities, not a humans.The fish the fish!!!! The fish do not eat human portion's!
The side by side comparison of lettuce to seaweed was 100grams for both, now the numbers were indeed geared for human consumption, but since vitamins are in percentages, we can still get an accurate idea of what would work for a fish. It was on the same mass of lettuce and algae. The same quantity of lettuce as seaweed had higher vitamin levels, whereas in the seaweed had higher mineral content.The absorption rate imply no matter what but It'll take 3 times as much lettuce to equal the same amount of nori...
Because the seaweed doesn't have as much cellulose it does not have the same intestinal cleaning ability. It is the undigestible roughage that serves this function. Also the longer it takes something to pass through the digestive tract, the more opportunity exists to absorb any nutrients.The argument of clearing out the intestine is stupid because if you're feeding nori/seaweeds it doesn't need it in the first place because it does the same thing plus passes through the intestines faster with a high absorption rate.
You cannot digest anything if you don't have the enzyme's to digest it in the first place.That's why it's in percentages. A 2000 calorie diet is about 100% of the daily intake for an average human. A fish's will be a fraction of that, probably closer to 20 calories and that will equal close to 100% of it's daily needs. For a fish to get it's daily need of a vitamin or mineral it will be within his quantities, not a humans.
The side by side comparison of lettuce to seaweed was 100grams for both, now the numbers were indeed geared for human consumption, but since vitamins are in percentages, we can still get an accurate idea of what would work for a fish. It was on the same mass of lettuce and algae. The same quantity of lettuce as seaweed had higher vitamin levels, whereas in the seaweed had higher mineral content.
Because the seaweed doesn't have as much cellulose it does not have the same intestinal cleaning ability. It is the undigestible roughage that serves this function. Also the longer it takes something to pass through the digestive tract, the more opportunity exists to absorb any nutrients.
Great analogy!Here's a silly thought . . .
A tang wants to graze all day long, and can become cranky if his belly isn't full.
The same tang wants to swim for miles every day.
Seems to me that tang, snacking on dried (condensed) nori fluttering from a Two Little Fishies magnet-clip and swimming laps around a six-foot tank is getting far more nutrient intake per unit of exercise than a tang beating its pectorals against the surf and currents off Hawaii's Kona coast.
Perhaps a low-calorie, high-vitamin dietary supplement that'll take care of Mr. Tang's psychological need to graze all day long without making him overweight makes a nice enrichment, as well as rounding out his vitamin intake?!
~Bruce, a firm believer in "shotgun" nutrition - blast the body with a wide spectrum, and let it take what it needs . . .