Am i the only one whobfeeds my fish like this?

[Tj203]

Whats good quality? Imo there is only 2 I can find and that is NLS and North fin all other I see use fish meal or bad fillers. I am looking for some that are cheaper but I can't find it.

Hear are the ingredients. First one is fish meal second biggest ingredient is flour. When I saw there website I thought hell yea they look good and I saw the price and was like dam it has to be amazing that sh@t is expensive. You get 1.1lb for $38, NLS is 55-60 for 4.4lb but look at there ingredients list it is all whole fish for NLS not the scraps left over that that the one you use and it is way cheaper

White fish meal, wheat flour, Antarctic krill meal, spirulina algae, pea protein, wheat germ, brewer's yeast, calcium montmorillonite clay, gum acacia, garlic, calcium carbonate, protease, beta glucan, Vit A Acetate, D-Active Animal Sterol (D3), DL-alpha-Tocopherol (E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (C), B12 Sup,


NLS cichlid


Whole Antarctic Krill, Giant Squid,
Whole Wheat Flour, Whole Menhaden
Fish*, Ulva Seaweed, Chlorella Seaweed
Wakame Seaweed, Kelp, Garlic, Ginger,
Astaxanthin, Spirulina, Omega-3 Fish
Oil*, Marigold, Zeaxanthin, Capsanthin,
Eucheuma cottonii Seaweed, Chondrus
crispus Seaweed, Spinosum Seaweed,
Bentonite Clam Sea Salt

 

[Tj203]

Was just thinking about it and that is alot of money for flour!!!!!! Dam?

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

If you are feeding that much, why not just make your food in house?

What about Repashy?

 

[Tj203]

I got that for my hypostomus luteus. Moring wood is by far the best fish food name lmaf? and you are right they are a great food but so much work I still do it for the pleco but I with they would make a pellet. I forgot about them and I even use them.

 

[jjohnwm]

To my mind, the term "variety" implies that the fish are fed something different each meal. I keep an assortment of foods on hand...dried, frozen, freeze-dried...commercially-made and home-brewed. I feed small fish twice daily and almost never the same thing twice in a row. I'm not into monsters any more, but do have a single jelly cat; after switching him over to Massivore pellets, which will be his staple for the foreseeable future, I will be alternating them with progressively larger frozen whole fish, live earthworms, shrimp and home-made frozen gelatin foods.

Every commercial food is a blend of ingredients, some better than others. When you mix them together, you create a new blend. And if you feed that same new blend every time...where's the variety?

 

[Tj203]

To my mind, the term "variety" implies that the fish are fed something different each meal. I keep an assortment of foods on hand...dried, frozen, freeze-dried...commercially-made and home-brewed. I feed small fish twice daily and almost never the same thing twice in a row. I'm not into monsters any more, but do have a single jelly cat; after switching him over to Massivore pellets, which will be his staple for the foreseeable future, I will be alternating them with progressively larger frozen whole fish, live earthworms, shrimp and home-made frozen gelatin foods.

Every commercial food is a blend of ingredients, some better than others. When you mix them together, you create a new blend. And if you feed that same new blend every time...where's the variety?

My thinking is because it is all mixed when I throw it in that helps very the diet also when I mix the tub up and put new food in the the Ratio of food changes too. I have 2 bins I add food for about 3 months in one bin then I start on the second one so the food dose not go bad. I buy food every 2 weeks or once a month this way I don't need to spend alot on fish food all at once.

Anyone have any cheap easy home made fish food recipes? I am spending 7_10 dollars a pound now for the manufacturer ones. I can buy shrimp for that price for me to eat lol.

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

Yeah I get what your saying about different ratio everytime. I dont mix up the food in tubs on my end here though. I keep them in smaller containers as much as possible. I just pick whatever bag I am in the mood to feed the fish in. I literally have like 10 different kinds of pellet/sticks going on along with freeze, freeze dried foods and right now using up a tub of tetra min flake food, before I had bug flakes but used it up. That's definitely a daily staple for the tetras/barbs /rainbowfish in the tank