Fish Food Summary

So does this means that Extreme Aquatic foods are healthier than Hikori Gold and NLS?

I look for fish food that contains whole fish or whitefish meal as the main ingredient.... Most of the pet food on the market lists "Fish Meal", which is from left over parts and scraps not fit for human consumption..

I stay away from processed foods with a high concentration of soybean meal as its an incomplete protein and in my opinion can lead to bloat.

http://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/resourcesforyou/ucm047113.htm

White fish meal usually is the worse ingredient being that it is the just the bones of the fish & nothing else. Also high in ash content. Can help increase algae blooms. I Have a friend that was a nutritiousness for a fisheries & broke down fish foods etc. at a local club meeting one time & learned a lot!
Did not read your link yet.

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White fish meal usually is the worse ingredient being that it is the just the bones of the fish & nothing else. Also high in ash content. Can help increase algae blooms. I Have a friend that was a nutritiousness for a fisheries & broke down fish foods etc. at a local club meeting one time & learned a lot!
Did not read your link yet.

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Any links so that I could read?
Maybe what I read isn't accurate or the definitions of what constitutes "fishmeal" "whole fishmeal", "white fish meal" are so broad??

heres an article I've read, seems they don't differentiate fishmeal types into those three catergories:

http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/200/the-benefits-of-fish-meal-in-aquaculture-diets

Interesting read. For every good thing that I learn about a fish food, I learn another bad thing about it. I haven't tried all of the brands that are listed but the two that I use as staple foods are on there. I'm going to stick with the current foods that I am using because I have good results with them. A few others from the list will be worth a try though.

IMO, really not a useful document, and is actually pretty misleading. Listing only the first three ingredients is not helpful. You can list 8 different fish as the first ingredients, but that doesn't mean that product has "more" fish in it--and are those dry weight or wet weight? They still have protein percentages, and even those are misleading. Every pellet or flake uses some sort of binder to bind the proteins together, even though it may be listed further down the ingredient list, it could actually be MORE depending on how a company has decided to list and weigh their ingredients.
Also, no mention of things like ash content, the digestibility of the protein used, artificial colors or flavorings (Hikari is well known for putting MSG in their food), etc etc...

Thank you for posting it though Mojo, it should open up some interesting discussion on how labels themselves can even be misleading.

IMO, really not a useful document, and is actually pretty misleading. Listing only the first three ingredients is not helpful. You can list 8 different fish as the first ingredients, but that doesn't mean that product has "more" fish in it--and are those dry weight or wet weight? They still have protein percentages, and even those are misleading. Every pellet or flake uses some sort of binder to bind the proteins together, even though it may be listed further down the ingredient list, it could actually be MORE depending on how a company has decided to list and weigh their ingredients.
Also, no mention of things like ash content, the digestibility of the protein used, artificial colors or flavorings (Hikari is well known for putting MSG in their food), etc etc...

Thank you for posting it though Mojo, it should open up some interesting discussion on how labels themselves can even be misleading.