That guy that said he was 100% sure XO contains hormones, isn't 100% sure of anything. Just more smack talk from a kid, who knows someone who knows someone. Again, pretty easy to figure out if any food has sex hormones in it, yet for some odd reason no one has ever presented any actual proof with any of these foods. This isn't exactly rocket science.
Fenshui ........... no one has said that the type/brand of pellets can't make a difference.
There is no argument there. The argument is what if any hormones some of these Asian made foods may or may not contain. You now keep African cichlids, does XO cause female peacocks to fully color up like a male? If so, then we have our answer for at least one brand/formula of pellet. Surely you must have tested this, yes?
Fact - In Asia hormones are used by many breeders of cichlids. Fact - In Asia synthetic color enhancers such as Carophyll Pink are used by many breeders. Fact - the manufacturer of XO Humpy Head (Qian Hu corp.) sells died & tattooed cichlids, which that alone would stop me from supporting the company in any manner, including feeding their "specialty" food. http://www.qianhu.com/default.asp?id=15&mnu=15
Personally I'm not interested in artificially enhancing any of my fish, and I avoid foods that contain these substances, and I avoid fish that have been artificially enhanced using these methods, just as I avoid vendors who use red NAN lighting and/or photoshop to promote their fish.
Of course there are pellets that will make a red fish, blood red, due to how much synthetic color enhancing agents have been added to the food. I once saw some yellow labidochromis fed Hai Feng exclusively and those naturally yellow colored cichlids, turned orange! I have also seen juvenile African cichlids such as N. livingstonii that at 2" were already fully colored up, as though they were 8-10" adults. Not one or two, but entire tanks full! This isn't some top secret breeding technique that only famous Thai breeders know about, everyone knows that these fish have been subjected to sex hormones such as 17a-Methyl Testosterone. This has been going on in the commercial fish industry for many years, long before flowerhorn even existed.
So yes, there are many reasons why one food may give better results than the next, again, there is no argument there.
My point all along is that there are FAR less expensive foods that can be used to get premium results in ones FH, or any fish for that matter. Specialty FH foods are for the most part overpriced food that has been marketed to appeal to FH enthusiests that either don't understand the fundementals of fish nutrition, or simply don't care. It's called marketing. Qian Hu sells what, 7 or 8 different pellet formulas, just for FH? Too funny.
I don't know how much XO costs stateside, but GS & CM make even the super premium foods look dirt cheap. Those so called "specialty" foods simply aren't worth that kind of money. But hey, I'm not holding a gun to anyones head, buy/feed whatever floats your boat.
BTW - just a few months back you posted the following to me;
Hmmmmm.
Fenshui ........... no one has said that the type/brand of pellets can't make a difference.
There is no argument there. The argument is what if any hormones some of these Asian made foods may or may not contain. You now keep African cichlids, does XO cause female peacocks to fully color up like a male? If so, then we have our answer for at least one brand/formula of pellet. Surely you must have tested this, yes?
Fact - In Asia hormones are used by many breeders of cichlids. Fact - In Asia synthetic color enhancers such as Carophyll Pink are used by many breeders. Fact - the manufacturer of XO Humpy Head (Qian Hu corp.) sells died & tattooed cichlids, which that alone would stop me from supporting the company in any manner, including feeding their "specialty" food. http://www.qianhu.com/default.asp?id=15&mnu=15
Personally I'm not interested in artificially enhancing any of my fish, and I avoid foods that contain these substances, and I avoid fish that have been artificially enhanced using these methods, just as I avoid vendors who use red NAN lighting and/or photoshop to promote their fish.
Of course there are pellets that will make a red fish, blood red, due to how much synthetic color enhancing agents have been added to the food. I once saw some yellow labidochromis fed Hai Feng exclusively and those naturally yellow colored cichlids, turned orange! I have also seen juvenile African cichlids such as N. livingstonii that at 2" were already fully colored up, as though they were 8-10" adults. Not one or two, but entire tanks full! This isn't some top secret breeding technique that only famous Thai breeders know about, everyone knows that these fish have been subjected to sex hormones such as 17a-Methyl Testosterone. This has been going on in the commercial fish industry for many years, long before flowerhorn even existed.
So yes, there are many reasons why one food may give better results than the next, again, there is no argument there.
My point all along is that there are FAR less expensive foods that can be used to get premium results in ones FH, or any fish for that matter. Specialty FH foods are for the most part overpriced food that has been marketed to appeal to FH enthusiests that either don't understand the fundementals of fish nutrition, or simply don't care. It's called marketing. Qian Hu sells what, 7 or 8 different pellet formulas, just for FH? Too funny.
I don't know how much XO costs stateside, but GS & CM make even the super premium foods look dirt cheap. Those so called "specialty" foods simply aren't worth that kind of money. But hey, I'm not holding a gun to anyones head, buy/feed whatever floats your boat.
BTW - just a few months back you posted the following to me;
Hmmmmm.
