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Article on the Diet of SAPs
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:40 pm
by purplecandle
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
Re: Article on the Diet of SAPs
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:48 pm
by Pufferpunk
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.
Re: Article on the Diet of SAPs
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:21 pm
by purplecandle
Opps, my bad. I just saw the pic and thought SAP.
Re: Article on the Diet of SAPs
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:44 pm
by Pufferpunk
The pic is a SAP.
Re: Article on the Diet of SAPs
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:30 pm
by RTR
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.
Re: Article on the Diet of SAPs
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:55 am
by Pufferpunk
I just think the pic is wrong. All the rest of the info sounds like the psittacus.