Better fish food?

[AbbeysDad]

Food for thought... Ingredients on labels are listed in order, by weight. Now Omega One uses fresh fish, which may include the ice it's packed in! And when processed, it's actual dry addition would likely put it much lower in the list. They also list Salmon as the first ingredient, but it doesn't say WHOLE salmon so it could be fresh parts (head, skin, bones) after fillets are cut out.
Fish foods made from whole fish meal (listed first) may be just as good or better.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I would say TetraMin and Hikari is a great combination for a budget.

 

[Essjay]

I was told that the foods to avoid are those which have cereal products in the first three ingredients as fish cannot digest these.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I was told that the foods to avoid are those which have cereal products in the first three ingredients as fish cannot digest these.

Ex. “junk food”, which is what @Byron said in this thread:

“I concur with deanasue and Russjw. Humans can live on what we might call junk food, but most agree we are better with less of that and more of the healthy quality foods. So too are fish. I always look at the ingredients on the package; "whole fish" or "whole shrimp" is a very different ingredient that "fish meal" or "shrimp meal."

(https://www.fishforums.net/threads/food.458234/)

That’s why I was questioning @AbbeysDad.

 

[AbbeysDad]

Ex. “junk food”, which is what @Byron said in this thread:

“I concur with deanasue and Russjw. Humans can live on what we might call junk food, but most agree we are better with less of that and more of the healthy quality foods. So too are fish. I always look at the ingredients on the package; "whole fish" or "whole shrimp" is a very different ingredient that "fish meal" or "shrimp meal."

(https://www.fishforums.net/threads/food.458234/)

That’s why I was questioning @AbbeysDad.

I understand. However, as I mentioned not all fishmeals are created equally.
In the old days, most fishmeals were just processing waste - heads, skin/scales, and bones. Ground up, dried, loaded with preservatives, and sat for who knows how long in a warehouse until ordered by a fish food manufacturer.
These days many manufacturers of quality fish foods are using fishmeal made from WHOLE fish. Now admittedly these are not table quality fish, but whole fish none the less, making it much better.
Also, in my discussions with the owner/CEO of Ocean Nutrition US/San Francisco Bay Brand, Andreas Schmidt, he pointed out that they are constantly enhancing fish food blends to reduce the amount of necessary grains/grain starch as binder...but that changing packaging was very costly. This is why the first ingredient may still simply say 'fishmeal' when in fact it is 'whole fish meal'. So 'fishmeal' used today in fish foods is not the necessarily the low quality fishmeal used in the past...as indicated by the extensive research I did for the article.

And don't be confused...if the first ingredient listed is 'Salmon', it doesn't mean that it's whole salmon - likely it's just salmon waste....fresh or otherwise!

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Interesting! Thanks for the info.