Re: Fish as food?

From: dave evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Date: Mon Aug 03 1998 - 18:26:00 PDT


Date:    Mon, 03 Aug 98 21:26 EDT
From: dave evans                           <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2584$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Fish as food?

Dear Mike,

> Hello CPers! I have another question. Would there be any negative
> points to feeding my sarr. Purpurea purpurea goldfish? I have access to
> some goldfish, well feeder fish that have recently died (within a couple
> hours or two) from a local pet store. Would this be bad for the plant,
> or create an unpleasent smell? How thoroughly would the plant digest a
> gold fish? Would only the bones be left? Thanks in advance.

   I think you would be better off feeding them to stronger eaters
like Nepenthes. I once feed a goldfdish to S.purp, but the resulting
smell was way too fishy for my nose. Then again, I used a fish larger
than what I see sold as feeder fish so perhaps the S.purp could handle
those smaller ones.

Dave Evans



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