it sounds ok for herbivores like goldfish or carp, do cichlids eat alot of plants? im gonna guess no
How bad is this fish food?
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as a matter of fact many cichlids do enjoy eating plants. but i wouldnt feed that stuff to my fish either. first ingrediant should be some sort of fish.mgk;3892954; said:
Ferrous cyanide is one to avoid when using salt. It should not have been included in the salt mix. Anything but ferrous cyanide/yellow prussiate is fine.
Correction in the list...It should read sodium chloride meaning salt.
The other is probiotics, beneficial bacteria to restore bacterial flora in the gastrointestinal tract after a bout of antibiotics treatment course. Also useful for digestive issues.
The food is not appropriate for fancy goldfish. Wheat is listed first implying the amount of wheat there is more as a filler than anything else. Any food that registers more than two starch-based ingredients on the top ten slots of the list, can contribute to floaty issues to fish prone to it.
Avoid anything that registers ethoxyquin and ferrous cyanide/yellow prussiate.
Correction in the list...It should read sodium chloride meaning salt.
The other is probiotics, beneficial bacteria to restore bacterial flora in the gastrointestinal tract after a bout of antibiotics treatment course. Also useful for digestive issues.
The food is not appropriate for fancy goldfish. Wheat is listed first implying the amount of wheat there is more as a filler than anything else. Any food that registers more than two starch-based ingredients on the top ten slots of the list, can contribute to floaty issues to fish prone to it.
Avoid anything that registers ethoxyquin and ferrous cyanide/yellow prussiate.
Not trying to derail this post, but I also bought cichlid food, and I am new to cichlids, so I don't know if this is good food or not.
It's TopFin Small Cichlid Pellets Floating and Sinking
Ingredients:
Wheat flour, fish meal, wheat gluten, potato protein, corn gluten meal, corn starch, shrimp meal, dried yeast, dehulled soybean meal, wheat germ meal, soybean oil, feeding oat meal, monobasic calcium phosphate, lecithin, algae meal, l-lysine monohydrochloride, yeast extract, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), inositol, a-tocopherol-acetate, niacin, l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilized vitamin c), riboflavin-5-phosphate, d-calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, choline chloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin a palmitate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex, folic acid, biotin, cyanocobalamin, cholecalciferol, manganese sulfate monohydrate, zinc sulfate monohydrate, ferrous sulfate monohydrate, cobalt nitrate hexahydrate. Color includes: Beta-carotene, annatto extract, canthaxanthin, iron oxide red. Ethoxyquin and citric acid both used as preservatives.
Guaranteed Analysis:
It's TopFin Small Cichlid Pellets Floating and Sinking
Ingredients:
Wheat flour, fish meal, wheat gluten, potato protein, corn gluten meal, corn starch, shrimp meal, dried yeast, dehulled soybean meal, wheat germ meal, soybean oil, feeding oat meal, monobasic calcium phosphate, lecithin, algae meal, l-lysine monohydrochloride, yeast extract, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), inositol, a-tocopherol-acetate, niacin, l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilized vitamin c), riboflavin-5-phosphate, d-calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, choline chloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin a palmitate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex, folic acid, biotin, cyanocobalamin, cholecalciferol, manganese sulfate monohydrate, zinc sulfate monohydrate, ferrous sulfate monohydrate, cobalt nitrate hexahydrate. Color includes: Beta-carotene, annatto extract, canthaxanthin, iron oxide red. Ethoxyquin and citric acid both used as preservatives.
Guaranteed Analysis:
- Crude Protein (min) 43.0%
- Crude Fat (min) 7.0%
- Crude Fiber (max) 2.0%
- Moisture (max) 9.0%
- Phosphorus (min) 0.7%
- Vitamin C (min) 345 mg/kg
Please don't quote me on that crap. You didn't read the rest of the thread.Citrinellus;3799709; said:
Mshill, I'd personally disregard that stuff. Any other options? That stuff weighs its protein analysis more with those starch ingredients as fillers. Note the presence of ethoxyquin. There are recorded mortality rates for that alone. I dunno what some food companies are playing at when they add recognized carcinogens and other harmful substances.
mshill90;3893169; said:
Garbage. Five of the first six ingredients are fillers/binders. The only fish ingredient among them is mystery fish meal, which in this case I'm assuming doesn't mean whole or high quality fish meal, judging by the rest of the ingredients.
It is also important to remember not to get hung up on the protein percentage they list, as there are many ways to manipulate that number.
Dog food manufacturers use soy to artificially raise the protein level in cheap food. Looks like they do the same for fish food.
Give your filters a break and avoid media-clogging cheap fish foods that exit your fish as undigested pooh.
Give your filters a break and avoid media-clogging cheap fish foods that exit your fish as undigested pooh.
