Journal of Fisheries & Livestock Production
Open Access

Research Article

Fish Food and Fish Diseases

Pathologist and CEO for Bassleer Biofish, Herselt, Belgium

*Corresponding Author:

Bassleer G
Pathologist and CEO for Bassleer Biofish
Herselt, Belgium
Tel: +32 16 69 68 39
E-mail: gerald@bassleer.com

Received Date: January 20, 2017; Accepted Date: February 06, 2017; Published Date: February 15, 2017

Citation: Bassleer G (2017) Fish Food and Fish Diseases. J Fisheries Livest Prod 5: 220 doi: 10.4172/2332-2608.1000220

Copyright: © 2017 Bassleer G. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Without too technical information we will explain what we experienced during our 40+ years of feeding ornamental fish at wholesale level. In the early 90s, during our daily practice, we had 1 goal: using a complete food for ornamental fish that would provide high quality fish within 3-7 days, depending on the origin and quality of the fish. Next to the basic ingredients, we have learned in the past 25 years that many other additional feed additives can play an important role to control the health of our fish: to help the immune (defense) system of the fish, to assist in faster repair after damage, to prevent or control infections, etc. In general, with the recent studies and experience (especially in aquaculture) we learned to understand the health benefits of a functional fish food= a food that gives more benefits than just ‘feeding fish’, a food that can be seen as a “nutricament”= nutritional medication with products from nature, avoiding (preventing) the use of medications.

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