wardley?

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I was under the impression that Wardleys is in the running for three words food. It's probably one of the highest volume sellers but really poor ingredients.

Many "algae" wafers have bad ingredients with the exception of NLS and Northfin. Hikari's is okay but doesn't really contain algae. Check it Wardleys ingredients in their algae discs:

Notice how they split up the corn and wheat ingredients so it would look like their algae meal is the top ingredient. If you combined the wheat and corn, they'd make up the majority of this product.

Spirulina algae meal, corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal, corn distillers dried grains, wheat flour, wheat germ, wheat gluten, wheat middlings, linseed meal, canola meal, dehulled soybean meal, soy protein concentrate, pea protein, brewers dried yeast, corn flour, rice flour, dehydrated alfalfa meal, soy protein isolate, ground barley, calcium carbonate, soybean oil, spinach powder, dried lecithin, l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), dicalcium phosphate, choline chloride, vitamin A acetate, d-alpha-tocopherol acetate, cholecalciferol (source of vitamin D3), calcium pantothenate, biotin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, ethoxyquin (a preservative), thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, riboflavin, cyanocobalamin (source of vitamin B12), manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite.
 
Omega one/ hikari/ new life spectrum/ Cobalt/ northfin those are all good food also if your looking for a good selection of good food check out the website super cichlids you can even get samples for 50 cents to see how your fish like it before you buy a bag
 
I seldom use the word crap to describe fish food, and most foods will get the job done, but IMHO Wardley food is CRAP. Some of the lowest quality, and cheapest grade raw ingredients to be used in a fish food. If the term filler ever applied to a fish food, this would be it. Corn is No Bueno!

.... and Tetra is not far behind.
 
I seldom use the word crap to describe fish food, and most foods will get the job done, but IMHO Wardley food is CRAP. Some of the lowest quality, and cheapest grade raw ingredients to be used in a fish food. If the term filler ever applied to a fish food, this would be it. Corn is No Bueno!

.... and Tetra is not far behind.

Before I read up on foods a few months ago, and I thank your posts in food threads as helping to educate me, I had three bottles of Tetramin and Tetra color.

Is it all right to use these up? I've since bought some NLS and have been feeding that as well. I've transitioned the algae wafers as to algaemax as I ran out of my wafers but I have a lot of the flake and crisps.

I made a thread before and most suggested I just use it up rather than toss it, but I figured I'd get your opinion.

I have wasting stuff but I suppose the bottles are only $3-5.

Thanks for your input.
 
Or hbh Oscar grow?

A few years back HBH sold out, a company called Pisces Pro bought up their remaining inventory, and dropped numerous HBH formulas from their production. The only Oscar food currently shown on the Pisces Pro website is Oscar bites, which I assume means that they no longer sell Oscar Grow. You might want to check the expiry or manufactures production date on those containers at your LFS. One of our local stores has a habit of selling food that is close to, or sometimes even past the best before date.

Also, it appears that the formula has changed, and soybeans have replaced krill. I am personally not a fan of soybean meal, especially when it is followed by wheat, and corn.

http://www.piscespros.com/product/hbh-oscar-bites-1-oz/
 
Cheap food means more phosphates and more fish poop.

Bingo. Suddenly the cost savings may not seem so important when you factor that into the equation. Reduced water quality and/or increased water changes and filter media cleaning doesn't = $3-5 where I come from. Never mind the reduced nutrition being supplied to your fish.
 
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being a cash crop farmer myself and relying on corn, soybeans and wheat as my only income,,,, I also believe that they have no place in fish food of any kinda quality. hard to get around it though. its cost effective for the manufactures. a lot of people don't even know there is expiry dates on fish foods I found when I worked the aquarium stores
 
being a cash crop farmer myself and relying on corn, soybeans and wheat as my only income,,,, I also believe that they have no place in fish food of any kinda quality. hard to get around it though. its cost effective for the manufactures. a lot of people don't even know there is expiry dates on fish foods I found when I worked the aquarium stores
agreed corn really isn't great nutrition wise for any animals, fish,cows,horse poultry etc,
It's hard to digest and really doesnt have much nutrition wise, mostly just a few carbs.
Corn starvation is a very real thing.
 
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