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The Feeding and Nutrition of Herbivorous Fish

In the wild, many species of fish include a significant amount of vegetable matter in their diet. Some of these herbivorous fish consume phytoplankton or filamentous algae; others nibble on the leaves and stems of aquatic plants.

Predominant algae/plant eaters include the Asian Grass Carp, the South American Myleus species, some African Tilapia Cichlids, and the African Characoid, Distichodus.
Koi Carp - a plant nibbler
However, few if any fish are exclusively herbivorous throughout their life. Other species require significant amounts of vegetable matter in their diet, examples being goldfish and other carp, barbs, sucker-mouth loricariid catfishes, and several poeciliid livebearers (e.g. mollies).

Grazing Fishes
Many fish significantly graze on algae-coated surfaces. Examples of grazers include some African Cichlids, Marine Parrot Fishes, and the South American sucker-mouth catfishes of the Loricariidae.

Plant Nibblers
Goldfish and koi are well known plant nibblers. Their destructive action on aquatic plants often goes unappreciated by their owners. Koi and goldfish must use their pharyngeal bone, to break down plant material before it can be digested.

Mechanical breakdown is necessary because these fish do not possess the enzymes that break down the material of cell walls.


Sailfin Molly

Herbivorous Feeding Behaviour in Fishes:
Food Item: Examples of fish that include significant quantities of this food in their diet:
Phytoplankton Some cichlids (e.g. some Tilapia), cyprinids (e.g. silver carp) and herrings
Filamentous Algae Surgeonfishes, damsel fishes, trigger fishes, sucker-mouth catfishes. Algae-eating cichlids.
Higher (vascular) plants (macrophytes) Goldfish, Koi
Nuts, Fruits Pacu (Colossoma spp)

Plant-Eating Carnivores

Even some fish that are generally classed as carnivores are known to include a certain amount of plant material in their diet.

A well-known example is the Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus Mykiss that consumes small quantities of algae.


Rainbow Trout - a plant eating carnivore


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