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I bought some seaweed sheets today & some vege clips to use to hold it in the tank for the fishies to nibble on. My fish are freshwater, is the seaweed suitable for them?

I feed my fish once a day. Will a serve of seaweed take place the place of a regular feeding, or is it an extra treat?

Thanks in advance for advice.

Cheers
TW

The dried seaweed stuff is okay for freshwater fish, but normally it's the salty critters that really like it. Saltwater fish are the target market, though somethimes keepers buy seaweed for vegetarian cichlids and other freshwater algae eaters or omnivores.

The seaweed would be best treated as a snack, especially because all of your fish may not eat it. Start out with small pieces at first, and see who likes it and who does not. If you find out that certain fish really enjoy the veggie sheets, you can feed them bigger strips and count that as a meal- but just for the fish that eat it. The other ones would appreciate their regular meal or even their own treat.

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Thanks Sirbooks

I'd have to say that all my freshwater friends in the tank seemed to love it & made short work of it.

Are there any health problems giving the seaweed to the freshwaters. If so, I'd rather just throw it out.

Thanks,

Cheers
TW

Good to hear, that will add a bit of variety to their diet.

I'm fairly sure that there is no problem giving dried seaweed to freshwater fish. Seaweed for marine fish may have a different nutritional makeup as the freshwater-targeted stuff, I'm not sure. But I can't see any problem with your feeding marine seaweed to your fish as a treat.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

There may be an excess of iodine, so I'd not make it too regular, and i'd check that iodine is not too high up the list of additives in your staple food

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I was thinking straight away, seaweed = salt .
Well the salt won't get into the seeweed, but probably stay on the surface.
So it will probably get eaten by your fish.
Not sure if too much salt is good or not. It causes the blood vessel to harden in human.
Well fish don't have blood vessels, so shouldn't worry, not sure about other effects.

Excess salt will just get passed out I suppose.