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[skiptomyzoo]

I don't plan on eating my fish, so hikari is fine w/me, when I get evidence otherwise that it's bad, I will change.
Hikari makes great food, and unless you plan on adding milk to it and eating it like cereal, i dont see the problem, it's for the fish, not you.

 

[SimonL]

Humm.... Waiting.

In all seriousness, I can believe that MSG might be bad for fish, but such an assertion needs some sort of evidence.

 

[aquariumguy2300]

very good...very scientific approach...

anyway i found one with MSG...

Sinking Wafers®

Ingredients: fish meal, wheat-germ meal, wheat flour, alpha starch, soybean meal, fish oil, dried seaweed meal, krill meal, dried bakery product, brewer's dried yeast, spirulina, enzyme, astaxanthin, garlic, DL-methionine, monosodium glutamate, vitamins and minerals including stabilized vitamin C

That's what I feed my catfish!!!
I don't think anyone should stop buying their products, though. (unless they have the urge to eat fish food to see what their fish are so happy about)
BTW- has anyone ever wondered what catfood tastes like?

 

[ZCciVic22]

I don't plan on eating my fish, so hikari is fine w/me, when I get evidence otherwise that it's bad, I will change.
Hikari makes great food, and unless you plan on adding milk to it and eating it like cereal, i dont see the problem, it's for the fish, not you.

Now that you mention it, the large floating pellits would kinda look like coco puffs...

 

[JenTN]

Thanks for the warning, MSG causes migraines, stomach problems, and bladder problems for me- also hives in larges doses (i.e. Chinese food). I don't want to even touch the stuff enough to feed it to the fish.

I don't think there is research on if it is or isn't harmful to fish, but I would like to err on the side of caution. I personally feed OSI food, per reccomendation of the LFS, but have considered Hikari. I just don't think that if it did cause headache, stomach problems, etc. my fish would be able to tell me.

 

[TheMightyOscar]

i've been feeding my fish hikari for YEARS with no ill effects..don't think i'll be stopping now

 

[JenTN]

That's what I feed my catfish!!!
I don't think anyone should stop buying their products, though. (unless they have the urge to eat fish food to see what their fish are so happy about)
BTW- has anyone ever wondered what catfood tastes like?

My mom used to catch me eating catfood all the time when I was like 3 or 4...apparantly it is quite palatable to a toddler.

 

[mojo2776]

That's what I feed my catfish!!!
I don't think anyone should stop buying their products, though. (unless they have the urge to eat fish food to see what their fish are so happy about)
BTW- has anyone ever wondered what catfood tastes like?

I tried it once, just to see... not bad, but nothing special either

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

Thanks JenTN for at least partially agreeing with me.

 

[DexGTR]

Just to reiterate...NOT ALL have MSG....

http://www.hikariusa.com/tropical_items.htm

so far when i looked, Algae Wafers, Sinking Wafers, Micro Pellets and Micro Wafers HAVE MSG.

Food Sticks, Sinking Carnivore, Massivore Delite and Discus Bio-Gold HAVE NO MSG...

the original poster should really have been more careful in dispensing information like this...