Looking for high carotene vegetables.

[Pamelajo]

Most would think that carrots are the highest, but sweet potatoes contain more than double the amount.
Believe it or not when boiled & mashed sweet potatoes have 1310 mg per serving and baked only has 961.
Carrots have 671 if boiled and raw is only 367, raw baby carrots contain 552.

[tobalman]

Yes Pam

This is good for herbivore what's about carnivore ?


Most would think that carrots are the highest, but sweet potatoes contain more than double the amount.
Believe it or not when boiled & mashed sweet potatoes have 1310 mg per serving and baked only has 961.
Carrots have 671 if boiled and raw is only 367, raw baby carrots contain 552.

[bcarlos]

Yes Pam

This is good for herbivore what's about carnivore ?

Prawn is a high carotene food for carnivores. A good portion of the carotene lies in the shell, so ideally you want to use this. I've had some success usually blended shrimp shell in my pleco mix. I also use it as a gut loader for my super worms, which some of my larger plec's love.

[jlloydb]

-lifted this from a google search: "The richest sources of beta-carotene are yellow, orange, and green leafy fruits and vegetables (such as carrots, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, cantaloupe, and winter squash). The more intense the green, yellow or orange color the more beta carotene the vegetable or fruit contains."
-and this: "...Many invertebrates are a source of vitamin A for their predators. Most important are the cephalopods and the euphausiids. Both groups contain high concentrations and are the food of economically valuable whales and fishes. Euphausiids in turn are important components in the diet of cephalopods and so may be regarded as the base of a vitamin A pyramid in marine economy." most likely, our simplest source to euphausiids, would be krill. HTH.

[Pamelajo]

If using a food that has some of the high carotene vegetables say one third and the rest two thirds protein then they will still ingest the carotene. I think I read somewhere that even carnivores eat some vegetable matter.
These cooked fish/no shell all contain carotene(Vit A).
Shrimp 58
Salmon 48
Clams 145
Oysters 60 Pacific oysters 124

Meats
Baby beef liver 17973
Beef liver 3384
with meat though there is some question in my mind as to whether they can digest it properly, so I would prefer to use aquatic protein sources with the except of escargot.

Raw egg has 70.

Spinach cooked is 573
Kale raw 515 cooked 478

[Pamelajo]

A good portion of the carotene lies in the shell, so ideally you want to use this. I've had some success usually blended shrimp shell in my pleco mix.

Do you use a blender of food processor? Do you dehydrate? I ask because I am a little leery the processor won't make the shell fine enough and then when dehydrated it would harden and possible injure a fish.

[bcarlos]

Do you use a blender of food processor? Do you dehydrate? I ask because I am a little leery the processor won't make the shell fine enough and then when dehydrated it would harden and possible injure a fish.

When I feed prawn to my fish (pleco's or otherwise) I always peel it, although in the wild they wouldn't be afforded the luxury! I do use shells to gut load my superworms, and I don't process or dehydrate them. Superworms are surprisingly voracious and will eat just about anything.

[Pamelajo]

I feed some shrimp with tail on and usually find the tail left in the tank. lol Superworms??? I have heard of micro, white, red, black, and banana worms but never heard of superworms.

[bcarlos]

I feed some shrimp with tail on and usually find the tail left in the tank. lol Superworms??? I have heard of micro, white, red, black, and banana worms but never heard of superworms.

They're basically like giant mealworms, Pam. I use them to feed my aro's, but because they are so easy to gutload, I let some fall to the bottom of the tank, where they are greedily consumed by my plec's. Anything with rasping teeth will eat these guys up.

[Pamelajo]

Thank you!

[Brovvy]

I will suggest you to eat potatoes because potatoes have lot of calories and it is vegetable which contain high calories.