catfood for fish?
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Depends on protein, fat, etc. Nutritional info. Gravies or things that would muck up the water should not be used.
Most fish food out there isn't made for a 2 foot fish and would cost a small fortune to keep a large fish fed. Also, with the limited selection of food for large fish, there wouldn't be very much variety if you stuck strictly to fish food. So, yes, I do mix some cat food into the rotation along with market shrimp, beefheart, baby carrots, and fishfood.
One thing to watch out for is that most catfoods aren't very nutritous and use sawdust as a main ingredent. This gives the animal a sense of being full without the nutritional values. Make sure you pay attention to ingredients. From my experience, I have found that the better catfood dosen't float.
One thing to watch out for is that most catfoods aren't very nutritous and use sawdust as a main ingredent. This gives the animal a sense of being full without the nutritional values. Make sure you pay attention to ingredients. From my experience, I have found that the better catfood dosen't float.
sounds like a pretty bad idea. cat food, as you might have guessed, it made for cats. that means it doesn't have the same stuff as fish food. high protein, no vegetable matter, wrong vitamins, mammalian fats instead of fish fats, variable ash content.
With the cheap price of bulk trout food/other bulk fish foods I would not use cat food.. we had this general discussion before with some good input from Rallys and others. Should search for it. Might be some good info.
I think you are just looking for the wrong stuff. Hikari cichlid gold, excel and staple are all designed to be used for many sizes of fish. FD krill is another good large fish food. I also use Azoo 9 in 1 pellets which are meant for arowanas. Then there are many unconventional foods that will work very well. Catfood is not a good one to feed to fish. Even the best cat foods, have poor ingredients for fish.frnchjeep;1270545;1270545 said: