Fish Food Summary

[Ogre One]

Which would you recommend to feed fish RD? after reading all of what you have wrote i looked at what i was currently feeding my fish and it has corn meal, soy protein, corn gluten meal, wheat flour, dried yeast, dried potato, and rice bran.

 

[reptileguy2727]

I feed all my fish NLS Thera+A because of the extra garlic (enough to kill some parasites).

 

[RD.]

I feed New Life Spectrum as well. Have been for the better part of the past decade. I guess one could say I'm a wee bit biased in this area as I also have a vested interest in NLS foods.

My advice would be to find somethng that reads more like a food designed for fish, than a recipe for pancakes.

 

[Ogre One]

haha alright thanks RD.
Just bought a jardini arowana today quite excited to see how he starts acting. Seems to be eating blood worms just fine, i saw the aro sticks from hikari which were 40 bucks!! i just paid 120 for the fish haha no way iam dropping 40 for the food. but again thanks for your input.

 

[muffywrx]

IMO, really not a useful document, and is actually pretty misleading. Listing only the first three ingredients is not helpful. You can list 8 different fish as the first ingredients, but that doesn't mean that product has "more" fish in it--and are those dry weight or wet weight? They still have protein percentages, and even those are misleading. Every pellet or flake uses some sort of binder to bind the proteins together, even though it may be listed further down the ingredient list, it could actually be MORE depending on how a company has decided to list and weigh their ingredients.
Also, no mention of things like ash content, the digestibility of the protein used, artificial colors or flavorings (Hikari is well known for putting MSG in their food), etc etc...

Thank you for posting it though Mojo, it should open up some interesting discussion on how labels themselves can even be misleading.

Agree... learned this when I first got my great dane and was looking for good nutrition for her as they are higher maintenance.

 

[RD.]

No offense Mo, but your friend that works within the "industry" barely understands tha basic principles surrounding this subject.

I responded to this document, last year, in the following link.
http://forums.*****************.org/showthread.php?t=5361

Fast forward to 2012, and lookee there, Mo's buddy that "works within the industry" is flogging his real agenda, at $10-15 a pound. lol

http://nycichlids.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=16170

As always I strive to offer superior products at fair pricing.

It is made from krill meal. The same stuff you see in Xtreme, NLS etc. I mix the egss with the krill meal and dehydrate it.

Right, except there's a wee bit more raw ingredients, and nutrient content in both Xtreme & NLS than just krill meal, and egg.

 

[Kribensis4me]

This post may make some laugh. Just because I just finished reading the entire thread before going to bead. Im kind of a newbee. Is it true that the ash in low qualit food. Like the tetra cichlid flake food and I think the other is omega cichlid flake food. All can cause the brown algae in my 125g tank with 5 kribensis and 3 other small fish in it? I do a 25% water change every week or other week.

I dont mean to make this go off topic. That is not my intent. As I am curious if the food u feed the fish can be that bad for them and my tank.

Sorry for interrupting. Someone further back in the thread made a comment about the ash in food and algae .

Happy new year ya'll

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