cyklon_300
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to petting zoo status is pretty pathetic...
The great fish feeding question
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From the ecology point of view feeding ANY wild animals sooner or later kills them. There are at least two reasons:
1. food given by us in most of the cases is not fishes natural food - so their "stomachs" are not used to digest such kind of food. some of the things that are quite natural for us are poisonous to fishes.
2. Fieshes become dependant on human beings and in due course loose their ability to feed themselves. And once we are gone or get bored with feeding them - they die because they don't know any longer how to haunt.
This is why feeding fishes is not allowed in a lot of Natural Resources parks and - IMO should be forbidden everywhere.
The rule is simple - as Andy said - let's not interfere with the wild environment. Just observe it.
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1. food given by us in most of the cases is not fishes natural food - so their "stomachs" are not used to digest such kind of food. some of the things that are quite natural for us are poisonous to fishes.
2. Fieshes become dependant on human beings and in due course loose their ability to feed themselves. And once we are gone or get bored with feeding them - they die because they don't know any longer how to haunt.
This is why feeding fishes is not allowed in a lot of Natural Resources parks and - IMO should be forbidden everywhere.
The rule is simple - as Andy said - let's not interfere with the wild environment. Just observe it.
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miketsp
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About as far as I go to feed fish is to break open a few Sea Urchins with my knife, only in those areas where Urchins are an absolute plague. In some regions, people take sackloads of Urchins off the beaches after every tide, literally 1000s per day.
The fish love them.
The fish love them.
miketsp:
I would have to admit to this as well. Wether this constitutes "better" for ecological/physical reasons or not I have no idea. If there is a good reason why I shouldn't do it I'd be also happy to learn.
(I also remove Crown of Thorns from reefs if possible and dump them in deeper water if possible - but maybe that's a different topic)
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