Have anyone tried Pure Aquatic Cichlid Pellets?
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This?
http://www.aquariumguys.com/pure-aquatic-cichlid-pellets-12oz.html
IMO you can buy the same quality of feed in bulk from a feed mill, and/or your local hardware store, for a teeny tiny fraction of the price.
Ingredients
Fish Meal, Wheat, Corn Gluten Meal, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Hydrolyzed Feathers Meal, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Monosodium Phosphate, Fish Oil, Spirulina, Soy Lecithin, Shrimp Meal, Salt, Choline Chloride, Vitamin A, Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E Supplement), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K Activity), Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Manganese Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Calcium Iodate, Iron Proteinate, Cobalt Proteinate, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Selenite, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Stabilized Vitamin C), Canthaxanthin,Yeast Extract, Artificial Color.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min) 42%
Crude Fat (min) 5.5%
Crude Fiber (max) 4%
Moisture (max) 11%
Vitamin A (min) 20,000 IU/kg
Vitamin B6 (min) 35 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 (min) 0.1 mg/kg
Ascorbic Acid (Vit. C) (min) 150 mg/kg
Vitamin D3 (min) 3000 IU/kg
Vitamin E (min) 100 IU/kg
http://www.aquariumguys.com/pure-aquatic-cichlid-pellets-12oz.html
IMO you can buy the same quality of feed in bulk from a feed mill, and/or your local hardware store, for a teeny tiny fraction of the price.
Ingredients
Fish Meal, Wheat, Corn Gluten Meal, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Hydrolyzed Feathers Meal, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Monosodium Phosphate, Fish Oil, Spirulina, Soy Lecithin, Shrimp Meal, Salt, Choline Chloride, Vitamin A, Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E Supplement), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K Activity), Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Manganese Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Calcium Iodate, Iron Proteinate, Cobalt Proteinate, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Selenite, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Stabilized Vitamin C), Canthaxanthin,Yeast Extract, Artificial Color.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min) 42%
Crude Fat (min) 5.5%
Crude Fiber (max) 4%
Moisture (max) 11%
Vitamin A (min) 20,000 IU/kg
Vitamin B6 (min) 35 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 (min) 0.1 mg/kg
Ascorbic Acid (Vit. C) (min) 150 mg/kg
Vitamin D3 (min) 3000 IU/kg
Vitamin E (min) 100 IU/kg
I've been reading the labels on other foods and I have found feathers as an ingredient in many of them. It sounds like an odd ingredient to me.
Feathers from slaughtered poultry are a prime example of why one has to pay close attention as to what the protein source is in their fish food, and not just the crude protein listed on the label. Poultry feathers are cleaned & then made into a slurry of hydrolyzed feather meal, which can be as high as 85% crude protein. The problem is that the protein is poorly digested, and is also lacking in several key amino acids. Often used in lower grade, low cost farm feeds. Corn gluten meal is also high in crude protein (approx 60%) as is soybean meal (45%) - but personally I wouldn't feed any of those ingredients to my fish, unless I had no other option.
The % of crude protein found on a label is basically just a nitrogen reading taken in a laboratory. The crude protein % does not tell you a whole lot about the quality of the protein, only the quantity of nitrogen. It doesn't tell you how that protein was processed, or if it's even in a form that your fish can properly utilize.
The true value of protein is directly related to the amino acid content of each raw ingredient.
A lot of hobbyists get fooled by the big numbers, when in reality much of that nitrogen ends up being excreted by your fish, and simply adds pollution to your tank.
The % of crude protein found on a label is basically just a nitrogen reading taken in a laboratory. The crude protein % does not tell you a whole lot about the quality of the protein, only the quantity of nitrogen. It doesn't tell you how that protein was processed, or if it's even in a form that your fish can properly utilize.
The true value of protein is directly related to the amino acid content of each raw ingredient.
A lot of hobbyists get fooled by the big numbers, when in reality much of that nitrogen ends up being excreted by your fish, and simply adds pollution to your tank.