Can I feed my fish this dog food?
- Thread starter Siddons11
- Start date
I just don't get how you could have such expensive fish and be so casual about what theyre eating. I think all my fish are cool and want them to eat well and live healthy, but I rarely go over $20 a fish. If you just want to see if a fish will eat it watch the carp at an amusement park, they'll eat popcorn by the handfuls, and cotton candy, and trash and whatever else tourists throw in. Doesn't mean they should. Look at people, we eat all kinds of crap we shouldn't lol. But if I had that much money in a fish I'd be a lot more concerned with it dying 5 years early due to poor feeding.
Thanks,
RD.
for that
Thanks for that,
RD.
I had no luck finding that list myself, perhaps because I was searching for too specific a name rather than a generic recipe for a number of related products. So, we're down to corn, wheat and soy in the top 5 ingredients, behind fish in #1 and chicken meal in #2.
Honestly, I took a look at my situation and decided that I am not interested in repeating the foolish mistakes I made years ago, based upon ignorance and cheapness. As a young hobbyist, I had way more large fish to feed, way less money to spend on feeding them, and a naive trust in a big name like Purina to make only top products. I was always looking for a way to stretch out the food dollar to the max. But I now have only a few aquariums, really only one fish that might accurately be considered a monster (Jelly Cat), and am blessed with the incredible access to information which we enjoy today. Feeding my collection today with the best of the best, versus mid-range or even cheaper foods, will not result in some huge difference in cash outlay. I don't want to cheap out, especially when it's due to an almost reflexive and exaggerated thriftiness.
I'm running low on my last batch of Massivore; I've decided I will just start ordering Northfin jumbo pellets online from now on. Nothing like jumping headlong into the 20th century...even though we're almost a quarter of the way through the 21st...
And, yes, I will still be supplementing the diet with as much self-collected natural food as I can. Baby steps.
Sorry for the thread derail. I probably shouldn't have started talking about feeding fish with...you know...fish food...in a thread about using dog food for the purpose. My bad!
RD.
for thatThanks for that,
RD.
I had no luck finding that list myself, perhaps because I was searching for too specific a name rather than a generic recipe for a number of related products. So, we're down to corn, wheat and soy in the top 5 ingredients, behind fish in #1 and chicken meal in #2.Honestly, I took a look at my situation and decided that I am not interested in repeating the foolish mistakes I made years ago, based upon ignorance and cheapness. As a young hobbyist, I had way more large fish to feed, way less money to spend on feeding them, and a naive trust in a big name like Purina to make only top products. I was always looking for a way to stretch out the food dollar to the max. But I now have only a few aquariums, really only one fish that might accurately be considered a monster (Jelly Cat), and am blessed with the incredible access to information which we enjoy today. Feeding my collection today with the best of the best, versus mid-range or even cheaper foods, will not result in some huge difference in cash outlay. I don't want to cheap out, especially when it's due to an almost reflexive and exaggerated thriftiness.
I'm running low on my last batch of Massivore; I've decided I will just start ordering Northfin jumbo pellets online from now on. Nothing like jumping headlong into the 20th century...even though we're almost a quarter of the way through the 21st...
And, yes, I will still be supplementing the diet with as much self-collected natural food as I can. Baby steps.
Sorry for the thread derail. I probably shouldn't have started talking about feeding fish with...you know...fish food...in a thread about using dog food for the purpose. My bad!
Last edited:
RD.
Given your past connections with NLS can you pull a few strings, make a few phone calls, grease a few palms, whatever you need to do, to get the bloody price down a tad on their products, lol.I've literally got my finger hovering over the "buy" icon with regards to a 2kg bucket of NLS 2mm cichlid formula. The tight old git in me won't let me do it, it is after all.....nudging £90.00!!!
How much do you guys get this stuff for in Canuckistan. In the UK it seems we're getting our pants pulled right down! I figure it's the cost of importing it, but still, it brings me out in cold sweats.
I've literally got my finger hovering over the "buy" icon with regards to a 2kg bucket of NLS 2mm cichlid formula. The tight old git in me won't let me do it, it is after all.....nudging £90.00!!!
How much do you guys get this stuff for in Canuckistan. In the UK it seems we're getting our pants pulled right down! I figure it's the cost of importing it, but still, it brings me out in cold sweats.
That's a bit over C$150 for 2kg; my LFS has 2.2lb (so 1kg) of Massivore for C$80. Very similar to your price. Big Al's Canada has 1kg of Northfin Jumbo pellets for fifty bucks, actually a great price IMHO; I'm ordering some now.
Thanks, Esox, for giving me the kick in the butt I needed to check prices and find that deal. It took a bit of perseverance for me to muddle through the pounds-to-kilogram conversions along with the Canadian-dollar to British-squiggly-doubloons currency conversions, but I'm glad I did it!
Honestly, what a PITA this all is; I am measuring weights in kg, but still converting mentally to pounds...and then you are quoting prices in pounds, but weight in kg...my head hurts...
That's a bit over C$150 for 2kg; my LFS has 2.2lb (so 1kg) of Massivore for C$80. Very similar to your price. Big Al's Canada has 1kg of Northfin Jumbo pellets for fifty bucks, actually a great price IMHO; I'm ordering some now.
Thanks, Esox, for giving me the kick in the butt I needed to check prices and find that deal. It took a bit of perseverance for me to muddle through the pounds-to-kilogram conversions along with the Canadian-dollar to British-squiggly-doubloons currency conversions, but I'm glad I did it!
Honestly, what a PITA this all is; I am measuring weights in kg, but still converting mentally to pounds...and then you are quoting prices in pounds, but weight in kg...my head hurts...
It doesn't matter how you convert it all pal, the end result is the same....damn expensive fish food, lol.
And the thing that doesn't sit well with me is the fact that I'm a great believer in the old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
And my current feeding regime which consists, in part, hikari pellets, isn't what I'd call "broken". As in poor looking fish with low activity levels or fish developing bloat or any other diet related maladies. My fish are, and look fine.
My current, should I or shouldn't I pull the trigger on this bucket of fantastic, and expensive NLS fish food dilemma is borne purely out of what other people are recommending.
And that's not really me, it doesn't sit well with me. I tend to go with what my own senses are telling me.
I'm still going to buy this 2kg bucket, but I'm not, as I was initially planning, aiming for an 100% NLS diet.
By the way, it's good to know that you also are getting your pants pulled down, lol.
Yeah...you know that things have gotten out of hand when you find what is essentially a little plastic bucket of fish food, selling for fifty bucks...and actually think to yourself "Hey! That's a pretty good price!" 
As Canadians, we are so accustomed to this kind of thing...it's a wonder we don't wear kilts instead of pants, to make it easier for everyone...
As Canadians, we are so accustomed to this kind of thing...it's a wonder we don't wear kilts instead of pants, to make it easier for everyone...
You know what the worse thing is, and by a country mile? And I'm almost embarrassed to say it.....
Feeding your fish NLS, due it's undeniable quality, is probably akin to feeding your kids a diet of fruit and veg and only the leanest chicken and fish, constantly. A proper diet.
My kids don't have a diet anything like that, and not for want of trying either, lol. They often eat total rubbish, very much akin, I suppose, to feeding fish rubbish hikari, or so we're led to believe.
Basically, my fish get fed better than my kids, that's a fact!!
That is so wrong on so many levels, lol.
Feeding your fish NLS, due it's undeniable quality, is probably akin to feeding your kids a diet of fruit and veg and only the leanest chicken and fish, constantly. A proper diet.
My kids don't have a diet anything like that, and not for want of trying either, lol. They often eat total rubbish, very much akin, I suppose, to feeding fish rubbish hikari, or so we're led to believe.
Basically, my fish get fed better than my kids, that's a fact!!
That is so wrong on so many levels, lol.
