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this is like a revolving door issue. I have a good friend that is a biologist & work for a fisheries with fish nutrition 7 spoke at a local fish meeting a couple months ago. Unless you hear from some that knows what it all means & been to the mills where all is gets made for all Brands! There is a lot of the same stuff. Do you know that white fish meal is only the bones of the fish. Some of these ingredients have hi ash in which cause algae blooms & more. Not good. I have used & sold NLS for 9 years without a problem. Certain fish need certain things & some adapt to what they are given & live on. Say I bought a group of Tropheus as adults & they were raised on veggy flake from HBH, well from my experience a change of diet will kill these fish no matter what. So I would feed what they are raised on. Maybe ween some NLS thera a that is heavy on garlic.
There is no standard or set of Rules that I know on fish food have to be label like people (yet). But fish a low on the scale that gets attention. I know companys that have showed everything in it then to take half of it off because a competitor will try to copy it as close as they can because most companys have contracts with the mills so it is not exact. NLS is like the Science Diet for Dogs. Next thing you know here comes iams with priemium ingrediants. now thers is 12 or ? how many perfect diets there are? NLS was the first I think to do it focusing on fish nutrion. The food is really good.
But around the corner there something else coming.
For instance Hagen Nutra Fin is going big time different comparable & maybe better then NLS? I sat for 1-2 hours hearing viewing the presentation on the new stuff coming, what & how its made etc. & looks to be really good. I'm waiting for some to come to test drive it & see.
i'm done
later
me dave
There is no standard or set of Rules that I know on fish food have to be label like people (yet). But fish a low on the scale that gets attention. I know companys that have showed everything in it then to take half of it off because a competitor will try to copy it as close as they can because most companys have contracts with the mills so it is not exact. NLS is like the Science Diet for Dogs. Next thing you know here comes iams with priemium ingrediants. now thers is 12 or ? how many perfect diets there are? NLS was the first I think to do it focusing on fish nutrion. The food is really good.
But around the corner there something else coming.
For instance Hagen Nutra Fin is going big time different comparable & maybe better then NLS? I sat for 1-2 hours hearing viewing the presentation on the new stuff coming, what & how its made etc. & looks to be really good. I'm waiting for some to come to test drive it & see.
i'm done
later
me dave
haha, guess you did not get it. I have been in/working the pet industry for 25 years. Before Science Diet there was grocery store pet foods, Bil Jac etc. Then SD came out & sold from vet clinics then to from the independant pet store as being the best food to feed your dog & cat. Then others came out to compete with better ingrediants etc. It was expample. For years Tetra & Wardley were the stapel fish foods. I still have unopened Wardley, Hartz fish foods from 30+ years ago that cost $.29 from a hardware store.
I remember Tetra Doromin, Dorogreen then Dicus bits were the main food everyone fed their cichlids. Now its rarely used. But this maybe a little before your time for some?
anyway
enough said
I remember Tetra Doromin, Dorogreen then Dicus bits were the main food everyone fed their cichlids. Now its rarely used. But this maybe a little before your time for some?
anyway
enough said
Yo've been in the business longer than I have been alive. (19) Thanks for the info though. I get what your saying.
lmao, man do i feel old! I started in the hobby more then 30 years ago. Started working in a pet store when I was 15 & a couple others etc. Started mine when I was 22 & now more then 17 years later i'm still plugging away. I'm still a hobbyist by blood. Have 20 tanks at home & a few hundred at the shop/hatchery.
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Doromin........ Hahaha! I remember when that FIRST came out! What a hype! Still, no one had great results feeding just that. Foods are so much better today it's not even close!
I feed a combination of Ken's Fish color flakes, NLS Thera A, live worms (mostly superworms but some red worms), and frozen bloodworms.
I keep mostly med-sized new world cichlids but also Victorians, peacocks, and some west africans.
I have much better results with NLS as a component of the diet than when I use something else (especially Hikari stuff).
Doromin was like if you made trout chow into chinese crunchy noodles!
I keep mostly med-sized new world cichlids but also Victorians, peacocks, and some west africans.
I have much better results with NLS as a component of the diet than when I use something else (especially Hikari stuff).
Doromin was like if you made trout chow into chinese crunchy noodles!
