Can I feed my fish this dog food?

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I think I could vaguely guess for you from the price per pound the worth and the possible unwanted ingredients and their % of this fish food and its quality, although I personally would not buy fish food with an a priori concealed ingredient list.

Yeah, the difficulty in finding out what's in it pretty clearly shows that they don't want us to know. :(

I've done a bunch more snooping around and the best I can find is that fish meal is apparently the #1 ingredient; they steadfastly refuse to divulge more info. For all I know, #2 might be corn...soy...who knows?
 
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I was thinking about asking my Chinese friend where i could get dried crickets. Is that racist????
 
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I was thinking about asking my Chinese friend where i could get dried crickets. Is that racist????

Is that seriously a thing? As long as they are merely dried, and not salted or preserved in some way, that sounds very interesting. If you aren't joking...could you post any info you find on this?

And, if you are joking...okay, you got me good...:)
 
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Well Wal_mart will serve you either way, and they got them - both for fish and for chickens, the ones with the chicken stuff are a way better value.
 
Is that seriously a thing? As long as they are merely dried, and not salted or preserved in some way, that sounds very interesting. If you aren't joking...could you post any info you find on this?

And, if you are joking...okay, you got me good...:)
Yeah dried crickets are sold as fish food. I wanted some for my silver aro. I don't think they consume that where I live though.
 
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Yeah, the difficulty in finding out what's in it pretty clearly shows that they don't want us to know. :(

I've done a bunch more snooping around and the best I can find is that fish meal is apparently the #1 ingredient; they steadfastly refuse to divulge more info. For all I know, #2 might be corn...soy...who knows?
It could be they are concerned with the competition and copycats. Intellectual property, proprietary info. But consumers would be turned off too. Plus IDK if it legal in the USA / Canada to conceal pet food ingredients.
 
Hey John, it will be similar to the formula in following link. They all are pretty much the same in that Purina line of pond food.

Not the worst, not the best. Most pond food is more of a middle of the road bulk food.

Formerly known as AquaMax 500, Purina Mills AquaMax Sport Fish 500 is 100% nutritionally complete to maximize growth in sport fish. This is an ideal diet for feed trained largemouth bass, hybrid striped bass, bluegill and trout.

Guaranteed Analysis of AquaMax Sport Fish 500:
  • Crude Protein (min): 41.00%
  • Crude Fat (min): 12.00%
  • Crude Fiber (max): 4.00%
  • Ash (max): 11.00%
  • Calcium (Ca) (min): 2.00%
  • Calcium (Ca) (max): 3.00%
  • Phosphorus (P) (min): 1.10%
  • Sodium (NA) (max): 0.60%
Ingredients: Fish meal, poultry by product meal, ground corn, dehulled soybean meal, wheat middlings, fish oil, spray dried porcine blood cells, ground wheat, pyridoxine hydrochloride, lechithin, choline chloride, yeast culture, calcium pantothenate, SL-methionine, L-Ascorbyl 2 Polyphosphate, Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamihn K), Biotin, Thiamine mononitrate, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid, riboflavin supplement, vitamin E supplement, niacin supplement, vitamin A supplement, ethoxyquin (A prseervative), zinc oxide, vitamin B12 supplement, manganous oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, conc sulfate, calcium lodate, calcium carbonate, cobalt carbonate.
 
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