YT eating P**

[freewill]

I've been feeding my YT with nori (main diet) and brine and mysis shrimps soaked in Garlic... sometimes with cyclopeeze as well.

I just noticed a strange behaviour from my YT...

This chap eats its own excretion!!! I've not really seen anyone posted with regards to this...

Is this normal??? The excretion is soft. Not that i touch it lah, but it looks as if its soft, coz it breaks up immediately when out of the YT's eh... "back-end"...(for lack of a better word)

[FuEl]

Alot of animals do that for a 2nd round of digestion to occur. Not sure if that is what the YT wants or that it is just plain dumb.

Just look at rabbits. They can easily starve to death if you prevent them from eating their own poo.

[freewill]

Alot of animals do that for a 2nd round of digestion to occur. Not sure if that is what the YT wants or that it is just plain dumb.

Just look at rabbits. They can easily starve to death if you prevent them from eating their own poo.

haha... sure hope its not an abnormal behaviour (e.g. insufficient food from me)

im trying to control its diet leh! this bugger has been eating and eating nonstop!

rabbits aside, have you seen any YT, or for that matter, any marine fish that eats its own poo??

hope this is not a bad syndrome....

[FuEl]

I don't think the fishes know it is their own poo in the first place. Since their eyes are located so far away from their vent. They might just think that their poo is another potential food particle.

[freewill]

I don't think the fishes know it is their own poo in the first place. Since their eyes are located so far away from their vent. They might just think that their poo is another potential food particle.

well... it makes sense...

see whether other YT owners have experience this situation...

maybe i will put more nori before i go work.

[neutronics]

My fishes eat each other p**. I believe it normal behaviour.

[maKo]

They do mistake it for food particles, only to spit it out in disgust.. don't see them going in for second helping!

[scarab]

My YT eats his and other fishes poo all the time.

Actually they taste it thinking it's food but they spit it out after that.

[AquaRa]

yes, my clownfishes are dam stupid, they keep on eating one another's poo. my goldfishes oso eat their own poo

[bwilly]

low IQ.. plus the poo is may still have some undisgested goodies.. good for 2nd helping.. haha..!

[Clownfish]

Alot of animals do that for a 2nd round of digestion to occur.

it's normal for Tangs to do that

[Strongbad]

It's perfectly normal...

The smart ones will actually spit it out after mistaking the poo for food...

[weileong]

my BT and YT must be very smart then

[pacificbetta]

The really smart ones will not eat poo in the first place