Anyone know about Spirulina and Igs?

[elimm]

Spirulina is an algae, I believe, with very high amounts of plant proteins. It is a human dietary supplement, but I've been thinking about adding just a little to my Iguana's food, any ideas/thoughts?

[IguanaKing]

I have been using it for a couple of years now on my igs' food. Its an ingredient in the probiotics powder that I give them a couple times a week.

[prism_wolf]

Algaes are usually pretty high in salts, too.

Doing a quick nutritional value check:
Dried Spirulina - 257 mg per 15 g serving size
Raw Spirulina - 27 mg - 28 g serving size (would work out to about 13.? per 15 g)

If you're thinking raw.fresh - then great, but use moderately. Raw is still higher in sodium than many of the other foods we feed. That's the nature of algae...:-)

[{B|@CKGH05T}]

well pleco's (sucker catfish) eat algea but arent aloud alot of salt atall in there diet as with most fish but they eat lots of algea are you sure it contains alot of salt?

[prism_wolf]

Look for yourself:

www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20ib.html - dry
www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20ia.html - raw

...and my mistake...it's 157 - not 257 - but still pretty high in salt.

If you go by gram weights (which is easier to keep up with):
1048 mg per 100 g. - dry
98 mg per 100 g - raw