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Yes I know, it's cost.

The flake food I currently have lists the ingredients as -
whole salmon, whole shrimp, wheat flour, fresh kelp, whole herring, wheat gluten, plus vitamins and astaxanthin.

Their new version contains - MSC krill, MSC fish meal, wheat bread flour, wheat germ, wheat feed flour, daphnia, krill oil (with natural astaxanthin), chlorella algae, spirulina, brewer's yeast, kelp, salmon oil, marigold powder and a few vitamins and canthaxanthin


They've gone from whole fish to fish meal and more wheat products which fish can't digest :(. Guess who will be looking for a different flake food.......
 
Essjay said:
Yes I know, it's cost.

The flake food I currently have lists the ingredients as -
whole salmon, whole shrimp, wheat flour, fresh kelp, whole herring, wheat gluten, plus vitamins and astaxanthin.

Their new version contains - MSC krill, MSC fish meal, wheat bread flour, wheat germ, wheat feed flour, daphnia, krill oil (with natural astaxanthin), chlorella algae, spirulina, brewer's yeast, kelp, salmon oil, marigold powder and a few vitamins and canthaxanthin


They've gone from whole fish to fish meal and more wheat products which fish can't digest :(. Guess who will be looking for a different flake food.......
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What does MSC stand for?
 
Marine Stewardship Council from what I can find.
www.msc.org

Sustainable Fishing | MSC

For 25 years the MSC has been part of a team effort to keep our oceans full of life. Keep it wild, traceable and sustainable. Choose the blue fish label.
www.msc.org www.msc.org
 
Product change for different reasons:
cost to produce; some items in the product no longer available; improvements; attract new buyers; (for foods or meds) some ingrediants no longer legal; ....

The bottom line they change for one of the following:
effectiveness of the product
legal
availability of the material (legal or otherwise)
cost to produce
.
.
.
(I'm sure i missed 50 or so)
Anyway change is sometime good but sometime not so good.
 
At least with this fish food I noticed in time that they've changed the colour of the lid so that made me look what else they've changed.

I used to have Omega One fish food but suddenly it wasn't available here which is why I had to find a different brand. Now that one has changed.
 
Essjay said:
At least with this fish food I noticed in time that they've changed the colour of the lid so that made me look what else they've changed.

I used to have Omega One fish food but suddenly it wasn't available here which is why I had to find a different brand. Now that one has changed.
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Yea I'm not sure what is up with omega-one - i see you are in the uk and here in usa it is also very hard to find. I wonder if they went out of business.
 
It's Oase Organix Daily Flakes. The first ingredient list in post #1 is what's written on my grey lid tub; the other list is from their current website page.
They've also changed the lid from dark blue-grey to white, which is what alerted me to check the ingredients as well.


www.oase.com

ORGANIX Daily Flakes

www.oase.com www.oase.com
 
Thanks for the information. What are you going to get instead?
What do you think of New Life Spectrum Optimum? I suspect the wheat flour is less than ideal...but the rest looks good?

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That's the brand I've been looking at :)
Northfin also make a 'community flake' but it's a very large tub which would last me years and no-one in the UK seems to sell it, not even the shop in Peterlee which sells other Northfin products.
 
I use New Life Spectrum Optimum for my livebearers and supplement with algae- spirolina mixture, repashy and tetra color flakes in rotation. The fish go crazy for New Life Spectrum Optimum.
 
Essjay said:
Yes I know, it's cost.

The flake food I currently have lists the ingredients as -
whole salmon, whole shrimp, wheat flour, fresh kelp, whole herring, wheat gluten, plus vitamins and astaxanthin.

Their new version contains - MSC krill, MSC fish meal, wheat bread flour, wheat germ, wheat feed flour, daphnia, krill oil (with natural astaxanthin), chlorella algae, spirulina, brewer's yeast, kelp, salmon oil, marigold powder and a few vitamins and canthaxanthin


They've gone from whole fish to fish meal and more wheat products which fish can't digest :(. Guess who will be looking for a different flake food.......
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In some cases, it wasn't necessarily cost as much as supply chain issues.
 
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