Article on the Diet of SAPs

purplecandle · Post by **purplecandle** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:40 pm

I found this article today. It is from 2008, so I am not sure if anyone has seen it, but I thought it was informative.

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/c ... p?sid=1463

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:48 pm

Great start to the article--they have the name wrong: Colomesus psittacus. Maybe the pic is just wrong? All the rest of the info is good for the Colomesus psittacus.

purplecandle · Post by **purplecandle** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:21 pm

Opps, my bad. I just saw the pic and thought SAP.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:44 pm

The pic is a SAP.

Post by **RTR** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:30 pm

But the article is on C. psittacus, which is a long way from a SAP. It is FW-BW-SW and ecologically a Mangrove fish, which is borne out nicely by the feeding analyses.

The only implication for SAP is that it carries out the idea that the species includes high-level meat eaters whose prey graze on plants & algae. But that level of abstraction and implication is risky with puffer species - the genera themselves are not very secure.

Interesting though, thanks anyway. I am way behind on reading PFK.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:55 am

I just think the pic is wrong. All the rest of the info sounds like the psittacus.

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