Repashy Morning Wood: A fish biologists reviews aquarium fish food.

Описание: Repashy Morning Wood is an interesting and popular diet for Loricariids, plecos and whiptail catfishes in the aquarium due to the idea that they consume/digest wood. Due to scientific research since 2009 we clearly know Loricariids, pleco's cannot digest wood even those previously thought to such as Panaque (royal pleco's), Panaqolus (clown, flash and tiger pleco's), Hypostomus cochliodon group (Rusty pleco's), Pseudoqolus and potentially Lasiancistrus. Instead these are more algivores but also feeding on fungi so I'd recommend soilent green and add in those mushrooms alongside. The idea pleco's digest wood is one of the largest myths in the aquarium hobby.
This is a great brand for feeding fishes soon after import or when first buying.
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Where to buy:
USA: https://www.shop.repashy.com/products...
UK: https://repashy.co.uk/product/soilent...
Canada: https://www.repashyfoods.ca/repashy-s...
Netherlands/EU: https://www.faunatropica.eu/shop/food...
New Zealand: https://www.repashy.co.nz/collections...
China and Hong Kong potentially:   / urbanjunglehk  

References:
Lujan, N.K., German, D.P. and Winemiller, K.O., 2011. Do wood‐grazing fishes partition their niche?: morphological and isotopic evidence for trophic segregation in Neotropical Loricariidae. Functional Ecology, 25(6), pp.1327-1338.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wil...

German, D.P., Neuberger, D.T., Callahan, M.N., Lizardo, N.R. and Evans, D.H., 2010. Feast to famine: the effects of food quality and quantity on the gut structure and function of a detritivorous catfish (Teleostei: Loricariidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 155(3), pp.281-293.
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

McCauley, M., German, D.P., Lujan, N.K. and Jackson, C.R., 2020. Gut microbiomes of sympatric Amazonian wood‐eating catfishes (Loricariidae) reflect host identity and little role in wood digestion. Ecology and evolution, 10(14), pp.7117-7128.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

German, D.P., 2009. Inside the guts of wood-eating catfishes: can they digest wood?. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 179(8), pp.1011-1023.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://german.bio.uci.edu/PFK_respon...
Valencia, C. R., & Zamudio, H. (2007). Dieta y reproducción de Lasiancistrus caucanus (Pisces: Loricariidae) en la cuenca del río La Vieja, Alto Cauca, Colombia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales nueva serie, 9(2), 95-101.
Vucko, M. J., Cole, A. J., Moorhead, J. A., Pit, J., & de Nys, R. (2017). The freshwater macroalga Oedogonium intermedium can meet the nutritional requirements of the herbivorous fish Ancistrus cirrhosus. Algal research, 27, 21-31.
Žák, J., Roy, K., Dyková, I., Mráz, J., & Reichard, M. (2022). Starter feed for carnivorous species as a practical replacement of bloodworms for a vertebrate model organism in ageing, the turquoise killifish Nothobranchius furzeri. Journal of Fish Biology, 100(4), 894-908.