and your arent paying for a namebrand or fancy packaging
Of course you are! Ken does not have his own manufacturing facility, his food is what is known as "private labelling" in the food industry. His food is simply made by a feed mill, with his personalized "private" labels attached. And this is not a shot at Ken, or anyone else, but like most things in life you get what you pay for. This NOT what I would consider a "premium" food, but it is how Ken describes it on his labels.
This special formulation contains spirulina, krill, and other natural color enhancers for the sincere cichlid specialis. Our pellets are a nourishing food, that promoting growth and strength to help resist the harmful effects of shock or bacterial infection. For medium size cichlids. Some will float and some will sink.
Ingredients: Wheat, Fish Meal, Soybean Meal, Blood Pork Meal, Stabilized Fish Oil, Capsanthin, Spirulina, Xanthophyll, Krill Meal, Di Calcium Phosphate, Vitamin A Acetate, D-Activated Animal-Sterol (D-3), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Niacin, Folic Acid, Calcium Pantothhenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine, Biotin, Dl Alphatocopherol (E), L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (C), Color Enhancers With Red, Yellow, And Blue/Green Pigments.
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main ingredient listed by dry weight, is wheat. A common theme with lower cost, lower grade farm feeds. I'm quite certain that the Blood Pork Meal elicits a feed response in most fish, and then they get filled up with a whole lot of wheat & soybean meal. His feed formulations have been like this for decades. Lower cost ingredients up front, higher cost ingredients such as Spirulina, and Krill meal, way down the list by the vitamins, which typically make up 1% or less of the overall formulation. Again, not a shot, just sayin........
but there arent good bulk buy options.
If anyone is looking for low cost, bulk buy options, I would contact a feed mill directly, but before doing so you might want to ask Viktor
thebiggerthebetter
how lower cost, lower grade feed mill food typically works out over the long haul. I'm quite certain that he feeds more hungry mouths than the vast majority here. If it's too much of a hassle to train your fish on brand XY or Z, or some stubborn SOB's just wont conform, I get it, but personally I would try another quality brand before going the farm feed route.