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Understanding Predator Fish and Thiaminase

Predator fish is defined as a fish that kills and eats another organism,  common  prey would be fish, crustaceans, insects, worms, and so on.  Apart from hunting,  occasionally they scavage for dead organism as  food sources. Predatory fish are  mostly carnivorous.  They have a big stomach and short intestine designed to process protein as their  main source of energy. Feeding true carnivorous fish with pellets is wrong as you  will notice they poo most of the pellets before they even had the chance to digest  any of the nutrients. It is like feeding pellets to tigers, actually, cats do poorly with pellets too unlike dogs that are omnivorous by design. The typical way we keep predatory fish is feeding them with gold fish and prawns,  any type of prawns. Now the problem with this is that most available feeders  Lampan, Gold fish, Carp, Seluang in fact all the family of fish under the Cyprinind  Species has very high enzyme known as Thiaminase enzyme. For some reasons, carnivorous fish d