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Alix

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i now have another reason to eat pizza. my fish love it!!! ill put in a lil bit of crust in my tigerbarb tank one grabs it an the others chase him! my betta loves the crust too! :D an i put in pieces the size of your thumb an he gobbles them down with a big splash! :D its not delivery its. dajorno!
 
LOL! :lol: Your fish really love pizza???? :huh: That's too funny, I should try that... :p
 
so i bet fish like chocolate too, but would you feed it to them? you really should stay away from giving "human foods" to animals, especially fish....you never know what the salt, preservatives, etc in the food could do to them
 
i love my fish an wouldnt do a thing in the world to harm them. thats why i dont give them much.
a crum to the betta :wub:
about a human bite to the oscar :sly:
several crums for the tiger/albino/mossbarbs. :band:
 
I'm with abstract here, I just wouldn't...
Bread, cheese and sauce would be hard to digest -_-
 
i said crust didnt i?...yes i beleive i did. im not bout to give a fish cheese! :p
 
Last time I checked..crust was still considered bread though..wasn't it?
 
I wouldn't chance feeding anything to my bettas that wasn't specially made to fit their diets. Do you know what white bread does in the stomach of a human? I can't imagine feeding that to a treasured betta.
 
So, what exactly does white bread do in the stomach of a human?

I don't see that giving a little bit of crust to a fish on occasion would really hurt them. It might make them constipated, but so does freeze dried foods. Once every two weeks should not harm them, after all, what if you accidentally drop a few crumbs in the tank? Are you going to fish everyone of them out? Is it likely the fish is going to die in the next few days of exposure to pizza crumbs? Unlikely.

Just my opinion, but I doubt Alix is doing any harm to his fish.
 
FalconStorm said:
So, what exactly does white bread do in the stomach of a human?

I don't see that giving a little bit of crust to a fish on occasion would really hurt them. It might make them constipated, but so does freeze dried foods. Once every two weeks should not harm them, after all, what if you accidentally drop a few crumbs in the tank? Are you going to fish everyone of them out? Is it likely the fish is going to die in the next few days of exposure to pizza crumbs? Unlikely.

Just my opinion, but I doubt Alix is doing any harm to his fish.
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with all do respect, you don't know how often it is occuring...and how would anyone manage to drop crumbs in their tank by accident? :p
 
Firstly, I would never drop crumbs of anything into my fish tanks. They are elevated and properly covered, so nothing could drop into them, and no animals, not even my cat, could get to them.

White bread balls up in the stomach and is hard to digest.

[/QUOTE] If you take a slice of white bread and soak it in a saucer of water it will quickly turn to slime, and this is exactly what it does in your intestine. Diets high in processed carbohydrates, such as bread, cake, cookies and buns, require additional fibre from other carbohydrate foods, all of which contain natural or added sugar.
I got this from an article I got on google. I didn't have much time to look, or I'd find even more information about it. I know it's not my betta, but I would never feed pizza/crust to my fish. It's like people that feed chocolate to their dogs .......'but he likes it and just a little bit won't hurt him' ......... :rolleyes:
 
Did you know that after they assemble a pizza they sprinkle seasonings on the entire thing then bake it? So what happens if you can't see the seasoning (like garlic salt or crushed oregano)...what happens then?

Here's what most pizza dough consist of:
Regular crust
active yeast
all purpose flour
salt
granulated suagr
olive oil
water

or

active yeast
all purpose flour
salt
suagr
milk
vegetable shortning
olive oil
bread flour
water
yellwo cornmeal
active yeast

Deep Dish
all purpose flour
olive oil
eggs
thyme
rapid rise yeast
sugar
water

Thin crust
bread flour
vegetable shortning
active yeast
sugar
salt
water

New York Style
salt
all purpose flour
sugar
active yeast
yellow cornmeal
water

Whole Wheat
salt
wheat flour
honey
sugar
all purpose flour
active yeast
yellow cornmeal
water

Here's a small break down of types of flour:

Bread flour is a high-gluten flour that has very small amounts of malted barley flour and vitamin C or potassium bromate added. The barley flour helps the yeast work, and the other additive increases the elasticity of the gluten and its ability to retain gas as the dough rises and bakes. Bread flour is called for in many bread and pizza crust recipes where you want the loftiness or chewiness that the extra gluten provides. It is especially useful as a component in rye, barley and other mixed-grain breads, where the added lift of the bread flour is necessary to boost the other grains

All-purpose flour is made from a blend of high- and low-gluten wheats, and has a bit less protein than bread flour — 11% or 12% vs. 13% or 14%. You can always substitute all-purpose flour for bread flour, although your results may not be as glorious as you had hoped. There are many recipes, however, where the use of bread flour in place of all-purpose will produce a tough, chewy, disappointing result. Cakes, for instance, are often made with all-purpose flour, but would not be nearly as good made with bread flour.

Bleached, all-purpose flour is a blend of high-gluten hard wheat and low-gluten soft wheat, which makes it suitable for all baking and cooking needs. Self-rising all-purpose flour includes baking soda and salt. Bleaching is often done chemically; it also occurs naturally as flour ages.

wheat Flour is a blend of malted barley, niacin, iron, potassium bromate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, whole wheat, honey, flaked rye, oat, sesame, millet, flaxseeds, soybean oil, yeast, salt, sugar, malt, molasses, soy Flour, dough conditioners, and caramel color

For example, in the animal kingdom instinct is what drives animals to eat. Lions are meat eaters. Try and feed a lion carbohydrates such as fruits and vegetables and you already know the result. Conversely, other animals are vegetarian, and by instinct, will not eat meat. This is no accident. Instinct is a protective mechanism for all animals, including humans. The problem is humans are so domesticated, instinct no longer drives their eating habits.

What we can learn from animals is they eat only what is instinctively good for them, and as a result heart disease is virtually non-existent. While animals occasionally do develop cancer, statistically it occurs dramatically less often than in humans.

Additionally, have you ever noticed most animals of a given species all live to about the same age? Well, this is because of their uniform diets, driven by instinct, that allow them to have life spans to the potential of their species. Another point to remember is most animals that are not killed by predators die of old age, or what we call natural causes.

Now let's get back to eating habits and what happens when food is eaten that is not compatible with your blood enzymes and stomach acid. Agglutination happens. What's that, you ask? Well, there is a process take place in our blood called agglutination. Let us explain.

Your body has antibodies that protect it from foreign invaders. Your immune system produces all kinds of antibodies to protect you and keep you safe from foreign substances. Each antibody is designed to attach itself to a foreign substance or antigen.

When your body recognizes an intruder, it produces more antibodies to attack the invader. The antibody then attaches itself to the intruder and a "gluing" effect takes place. In this way the body can better dispose of these foreign invaders.

Still think it's ok to feed food items not designated for them... to your fish?


here's what's in most betta pellets

Hikari betta Bio-Gold Pellets
fish meal, wheat flour, milt meal, Antartic krill meal, gluten meal, clam meal, cuttlefish oil, soybean meal, enzyme, garlic, monosodium glutamate, DL-methionine, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite (source of vitamin K), thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, calcium pantothenate, biotin, inositol, niacin, choline chloride, folic acid, , l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilized vitamin C), manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, magnesium sulfate, cobalt sulfate, calcium iodate, aluminum hydroxide
 

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