Food to bring out more blue?

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

I;ve heard about issues mostly with Tropheus and Mbuna and bloodworms...

[jumpman]

I never had any issues with Fronts eating it, would only buy from a well recommended frozen source, and only for carnivorous fish....

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

This last part is key. Only to carnivores. Sure, the tropheus can stand it if exposed to it slowly and properly. BUT, it's like feeding meat to a cow on a regular basis. The digestive systems are completely different.

The idea that Tropheus are aufwuch fish and able to eat meat because of digesting small amounts of micro organisms is not logical in my honest opinion. Reason being is that very minute amounts of microorganisms and feeding bloodworms or the like are not the same. There's a lot more fleshy proteins in these other larger forms that are being feed to tropheus. I've heard of very little success using them and it comes across dangerous to our little water friends in the long run.

Long intestines are made for collecting nutrients from plants that don't start to break down now where near as fast as flesh. Flesh starts to basically rot in the GI tract of herbivores and can also cause other issues in other organs such as the liver as a herbivores liver filters a bit less efficient than a carnivores liver. As Carnivores livers are designed to eliminate more meaty acids per their diet. If this isn't done in the body of a herbivore eating meat regularly, it will inevitably cause health issues.

I know that in humans (we were originally designed to be mostly herbivores, hence our long GI Tract) Other problems concerning increased uric acid in the body can be the development and ultimate passage of kidney stones, an increase in your blood pressure on a regular basis leading to hypertension, or even the beginning of kidney failure in some rare instances.

SO as you can see, there is a difference between to the two types of animals and their needed diets.