Purina Sinking Catfish Food 50 lbs INGREDIENTS

[aquaculture]

THANKS knowda, I wasn't thinking.

 

[kdrun76]

Nutri Source Farm Pond Diet 20lbs
Crude Protein(min)--36%
Crude fat(min)--5.00% This will include the indigestible mineral oil
Crude fiber(max)--6.00%
Phosphorus(p)(min)--0.90%
Sodium(NA)(min)--0.15%
Sodium(NA)(max)--0.20%
Ash(max)--9.00%
Ingredients
Dehulled soybean meal, After the oil is extracted from soy beans, take what is left, grind and dehydrate it
ground corn, ground corn, DUH!
corn gluten feed, by-product from the manufacture of cornstarch and corn syrup, has some protein in it
porcine meat meal, left over pig parts gound up and dehydrated (feet and lips mostly!)
fish meal, left over bait from fishing boats, fish that went bad when being shipped and herring, ground and dehydrated
cottonseed meal, a high protein by-product from the extraction of oil from whole cottonseed, ground and dehydrated
wheat middlings, This is what you get when you sweep teh floor on a wheat grinding plant, common pet food filler
poultry fat preserved with ethoxyquin, chicken skin and preservatives
choline chloride, preservative/ growth stimulant

vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, vitamin b12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, niacin supplement, calcium pantothenate, menadione dimethylpyrimmidinol bisulfate,(source of vitamin K), folic acid, biotin, thiamine monoitrate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, pyridoxine hydrochloride,ferrous sulfate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, copper sulfate, calcium carboate, ethylendiamine dihydriodide, cobalt carbonate, All of the above are vitamins, and needed trace minerals. They have to be added separately as the huge ammount of processing that takes place on all the other (garbage) ingredients strips them of most of their nutritional value. I pulled the last few ingredients out of order to simplify this post.


rice mill by product what you get when you sweep the floor in a rice plant
corn, if you can't figure this one out, I am not helping
mineral oil,an emulsifier. Most animals aren't able to digest and process it, for that reason it makes a good preservative.

Ruminant meat and bone meal free No cow or horse meat included.

Cost ? Its cheap for a reason... its all waste products

Now we just need someone to explain all of these chemical names.

You get what you pay for. Its pure garbage.

 

[SpeshulEd]

And that is pretty much the same thing thats in cheap dog food as well. Corn corn and more corn - which animals don't digest and gives them no nutritional value. But hey, its america's cash crop - its used for everything.

In Food Inc, they show corn being fed to fish and tons of other animals. Its completely unnatural for animals to eat corn which leads to many health issues with the animals we consume for food.

 

[CHOMPERS]

You get what you pay for. Its pure garbage.

Do you work for another fish food company or something? LOL

They all have "floor sweepings". Get use to it.

A more common product:
Ingredients
White Fish Meal, Wheat Flour, Wheat Germ Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Soybean Meal, Shrimp Meal, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Carotene, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Choline Chloride, D-activated Animal Sterol, Folic Acid, Menadione Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Salt, Ferrous Chloride , Copper Sulfate , Cobalt Sulfate, Aluminum Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate .


Except for the vitamins and preservatives, it is all "floor sweepings. And this junk could very well be what you are feeding your fish.

Hydrated forms of ferrous chloride are generated by treatment of wastes from steel production with hydrochloric acid.

This chemical is corrosive and harmful if ingested. The ORL-RAT LD50 is 984 mg K^-1

ster·ol (stîr

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n. Any of a group of predominantly unsaturated solid alcohols of the steroid group, such as cholesterol and ergosterol, present in the fatty tissues of plants and animals.

Aluminium sulfate is usually found in baking powder, where there is controversy over its use due to concern regarding the safety of adding aluminum to the diet.

It can also be very effective as a molluscicide, killing spanish slugs.

magnesium sulfate, or magnesium hydroxide, is commonly used as a saline laxative.

Copper sulfate was also used in the past as an emetic.[10] It is now considered too toxic for this use.

 

[CHOMPERS]

Anyone want to take a guess at the brand of this food that is made from pure garbage, toxic industrial waste, and numerous poisons?

Here's a clue:
It sells for $22 per pound at PetSmart.
(The Purina costs 32 cents per pound if anyone was wondering.)

 

[kdrun76]

That's Hikari cichlid.

No I don't work for a fish food maker. However, I used to make fish food. That is how I earned my Master's degree. I owned several patents for fish food formulations, but have since sold them. The feeds I invented were for use in aquaculture. Even the foods I was making contained wasted products from other industries. Waste products are cheap to attain, and using them prevents them from polluting landfills. I was using the waste products from the local (to me) clamming industry as my protein component.

I don't feed my fish garbage and and industrial waste. I know better.

 

[omojena]

its cheap dog food that says "fish food" on the bag

 

[phillydog1958]

purina dog chow is made out of leather, saw dust, and motor oil - well, not really, but it might as well be.

cheap pet food is usually made from cheap ingredients as the standards for pet food are low. In fact, leather/sawdust/oil could pass for dog food by the US's nutritional standards.

After working in the pet food industry for over two years, I wouldn't feed my animals 99% of what you find on store shelves passing as pet food.

Have you heard of AAFCO (Association of Amercian Feed Control Officials)? They regulate pet food in the United States. Most dog and cat foods are high in specific nutrients that can impact specific body organs in a very negative way -- phosphorus, sodium and fat. Excessive sodium and fat increase palatibility but are not healthy. There are some companies that don't overload their products with excessive nutrients and also practice and believe in "lifestage nutrition". Which company did you work for?

 

[phillydog1958]

And that is pretty much the same thing thats in cheap dog food as well. Corn corn and more corn - which animals don't digest and gives them no nutritional value. But hey, its america's cash crop - its used for everything.

In Food Inc, they show corn being fed to fish and tons of other animals. Its completely unnatural for animals to eat corn which leads to many health issues with the animals we consume for food.

GROUND corn can be digested by mammals and is an excellent carbohydrate source.

 

[Satan's Goldfish]

Can we have an ingredients comparison between these two and hikari massivore delite? Surely that'd be the best way to tell if your catfish are going to be interested in them, mine definately go nuts for the hikari so if there's a cheaper alternative with very similar ingredients it 'should' work.