Anyone use Ken's Fish Food?

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If Ken's branded food was the same price as Hikari, NLS, Omega, Xtreme, or Southern Delight.....nobody would touch Ken's. The ONLY reason ppl buy his products is price.

The only reason?

I use to go with Hikari Gold but then switched to Ken's Krill Pellets. The main reason I switched were the ingredients. I usually focus on the first 4 ingredients.

Hikari Gold: Fish Meal, Wheat Bran, Brewers dried yeast, flaked corn
Ken's Krill Pellets: fish meal, krill meal, plant protein, fish oil

Having fish meal and krill meal in the top two was a winner in my book. Oh and the price is about half of what I was paying for Hikari Gold.
 
FYI ...... that formula of Ken's food should never be used as a staple, for any species of captive fish. It is listed as a conditioning food for a reason - 24% crude fat, which is right off the charts when it comes to dietary fat for a fish. While focussing on the first 4 ingredients you missed the bigger picture - fatty liver disease has been stated by experts in this field as one of the leading causes of death in aquarium raised fish.

Main ingredients: fish meal, krill meal, plant protein, fish oil, wheat, blood meal.
Guaranteed analysis: protein 45%; fat 24%; fiber 3%
 
FYI ...... that formula of Ken's food should never be used as a staple, for any species of captive fish. It is listed as a conditioning food for a reason - 24% crude fat, which is right off the charts when it comes to dietary fat for a fish. While focussing on the first 4 ingredients you missed the bigger picture - fatty liver disease has been stated by experts in this field as one of the leading causes of death in aquarium raised fish.

Main ingredients: fish meal, krill meal, plant protein, fish oil, wheat, blood meal.
Guaranteed analysis: protein 45%; fat 24%; fiber 3%
I definitely appreciate the feedback. Fortunately kens krill pellets are just one of 7 different foods I feed my fish.
 
Perfect, all good then. I just didn't want someone reading your comment and then power feeding their fish with that particular formula. I have no doubt that it will give good growth gains.
 
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Ran out of my massivore delight. Now need to get more food. NLS or northfin not too sure but will be getting some soon. Never tried ken cuz fish food can't be shipped from US to Canada. :(
 
Perfect, all good then. I just didn't want someone reading your comment and then power feeding their fish with that particular formula. I have no doubt that it will give good growth gains.

RD- You seem to have some great input so I'd like to get your take on Ken's premium floating pellet as a staple versus other pellets. Since it was already mentioned above how Hikari is a superior product, what do you think comparing the below:

Hikari Gold:
Ingredients: White fish meal, wheat flour, wheat-germ meal, brewers' dried yeast, soybean meal, shrimp meal, dehydrated alfalfa meal, carotene, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin A supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, vitamin B12 supplement, biotin, calcium pantothenate, choline chloride, D activated animal sterol, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite, inositol, para-aminobenzoic acid, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, salt, ferrous chloride, copper suflate, cobalt sulfate, aluminum sulfate, magnesium sulfate. Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein (min) 40% Crude Fat (min) 4% Crude Fiber (max) 4% Moisture (max) 9% Ash (max) 12%

Ken's Premium Pellet:
Ingredients: wheat, fish meal, soybean meal, blood pork meal, stabilized fish oil, capsanthin, spirulina, xanthophyll, krill meal, di calcium phosphate, vitamin a acetate, d-activated animal-sterol (d-3), vitamin b12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, niacin, folic acid, calcium pantothhenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine, biotin, dl alphatocopherol (e), l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (c), color enhancers with red, yellow, and blue/green pigments.

Guaranteed analysis: crude protein 45.0% min., crude fat 9.0% min., crude fiber 5.0% max., moisture 10.0% max., ash 10.0%.
 
Just for starters-- Going by those ingredient lists:

If you do enough research, aquaculturee and science studies have associated soybean meal (listed in both products) with digestive problems in fish, including intestinal inflammation. So, this is just me, but I wont buy any fish food with soybean meal.

In the Hikari, after fish meal are two wheat based ingredients, likely making wheat in some form the number 1 ingredient, not what I want, especially with soybean meal added to the mix.

Then there's Ken's so called "Premium pellet" where wheat is the #1 ingredient, then fish meal, then soybean meal, then pork blood meal (listed as blood pork meal), a slaughterhouse waste product that is controversial even as a dog food ingredient and is also used as fertilizer-- on what planet is that a "premium" feed? Again, this is just me, but Ken's food would lose all credibility with me based on that alone... my opinion.
 
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neutrino hit the nail on the head, excellent summation. Personally I have never been a fan of Hikari food.
 
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