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Fishnthehood

Fishnthehood

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I am not even kidding a little bit. The ingredients are listed in order of prevalence from top to bottom. That is the single WORST set of garbage that I have ever seen.

ANYTIME that you see the words "MEAL" it is crapola. Look for the word "Whole" instead!

Whole Fish > Fish Meal, Whole Shrimp > Shrimp Meal
 
@ Screaminleeman
Thanks for the advice .... what are you feeding your fish?
 
screaminleeman said:
I am not even kidding a little bit. The ingredients are listed in order of prevalence from top to bottom. That is the single WORST set of garbage that I have ever seen.

ANYTIME that you see the words "MEAL" it is crapola. Look for the word "Whole" instead!

Whole Fish > Fish Meal, Whole Shrimp > Shrimp Meal
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LOL, what do you think "whole fish" turns into once they process it for fish food? It's ALL fish meal... Some fish meals are just better quality. Sounds like you have bought in to some clever fish food marketing. ;)

OP, here's the basic ingredients from the pellets I feed my fish:

Typical Ingredients: Whole Antarctic Krill Meal, Whole Herring Meal, Wheat Flour, Whole Squid Meal, Algae Meal, Soybean Isolate, Beta Carotene, Spirulina, Garlic, Vegetable and Fruit Extract (Spinach, Broccoli, Red Pepper, Zucchini, Tomato, Pea, Red and Green Cabbage, Apple, Apricot, Mango, Kiwi, Papaya, Peach, Pear), Vitamins.

Not to get too involved in the conversation, but you want to look for something along those lines.
 
Fishnthehood said:
@ Screaminleeman
Thanks for the advice .... what are you feeding your fish?
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I have swithched to NLS, but that stuff is out of this world expensive. I have had poor results with Hikari, but the ingredient list is good, and other people say that they like it. It is also an expensive feed.

The Omega one line is much less expensive than either Hikari or New Life Spectrum, and it has an excellent ingredient list. If I were ever so slightly pinched for finances and was forced to temporarily not go with NLS, than I would do the Omega One pellet line.
 
NLS is really affordable if you buy in bulk... I buy 5 pounds for $55 including shipping, which will last most people a LONG time.
 
Looks like a bunch of "filler" ingredients. Stick to nls, omega one, hikari for staple pellets and feed stuff like grand sumo and chingmix occasionally.
 
aclockworkorange said:
LOL, what do you think "whole fish" turns into once they process it for fish food? It's ALL fish meal... Some fish meals are just better quality. Sounds like you have bought in to some clever fish food marketing. ;)

OP, here's the basic ingredients from the pellets I feed my fish:

Typical Ingredients: Whole Antarctic Krill Meal, Whole Herring Meal, Wheat Flour, Whole Squid Meal, Algae Meal, Soybean Isolate, Beta Carotene, Spirulina, Garlic, Vegetable and Fruit Extract (Spinach, Broccoli, Red Pepper, Zucchini, Tomato, Pea, Red and Green Cabbage, Apple, Apricot, Mango, Kiwi, Papaya, Peach, Pear), Vitamins.

Not to get too involved in the conversation, but you want to look for something along those lines.
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"MEAL" is made from ANY of the cheapest trash parts of the "animal" going into the "meal". Whole indicates that the ENTIRE FISH (ALL PARTS good and bad) was used to produce this meal. It could be a brazen blatent lie on the label, but that is what it means. Yes I suppose that fish meal could be made by a manufacturer that throws away all the garbage cheaper "parts" of the fish and utilizes only the more expensive parts in the production of the meal, and in that prohibatively rare case, the "fish meal" is better than "Whole fish meal'.

Truth be told clockwork, I think that you understand that this is EXACTLY opposite of how it works. Fish meal is made from the junk parts of fish that CANNOT be sold in any MORE profitable fashion. The reality of the situation is that all the more expensive and better parts of the fish are utilized for other purposes and not utilized in the production of regular "fish meal". The term "WHOLE" simply states that the good part of the fish was used in the production.

I again stress it could be a boldface lie printed on labels, but there it (the difference) is. Any of your "grain flower" and "feather" are grossly overated as most fish sre not able to absorb the nutrient intended from them. I would love to know the ash content of that food with as high up on the list as feathers are!

I cannot lie and say that I was not steered or marketed to. I did get most of the information in coming to a decision on pellet feed based on threads here on MFK. I am a relative newbie, and I assure you that I initially chose pellet food entirely on price per unit for all intent and purpose not realizing that there was any difference. I then migrated to the simple Crude % Protein, Fat, fiber and ash. I did however relate this quickly to Human vitamins not nearly as worthwhile as fat milky breasts on a Brahma Bull! We spend multi-billions of dollars a year on vitamin suppliments that our bodies could not possibly absorb if our lives depended on it. There are vast difference in the ability to absorb the nutrient from the source.
 
the first ingredient is wheat, you don't see that often these days in fish food. If you don't want to spend the dough on NLS try kensfish pellets but NLS is about the best you can get
 
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