Is Silver Dollar herbivorous? I have read that Silver Dollars are herbivorous fishes and only need a veg diet. Can anyone please throw more light on this issue. Being a strict vegetarian, I am looking for fishes which are exclusively herbivorous.
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I have gone through many aquarium sites and they all say Silver Dollars are herbivorous? Can anyone who has kept Silver Dollars please throw more light on this issue.
For example, omega oils cannot be obtained from plants as far as i am aware, it primarily comes from fish.
For example, omega oils cannot be obtained from plants as far as i am aware, it primarily comes from fish.
actually, nuts and whole grains (esp. flax) are good non-meaty sources of the omega oils (which, btw, are the essential fats)(that is, they're the only kind of fat that we *have* to eat; all those other fats are just tasty.)
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Nmonks, mollys are not herbivores, they are known omnivores, and will not do well on an all-veg based diet (think slow growth and weak imune system, lower fry birth rates and more pregnancy complications)- in the wild they are primarily insectivores with a large bulk of their diet consisting of critters they find swimming aroundin the water as well as other fishes fry.
Practically all food chains stem back to algae, but there are few animals or fish for that matter in this world that live directly and only off algae or plant matter.