Fish flakes
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I was told that if ingredients start with "meal" which yours does, then this is not ideal. Let's see what others say
What fish are you feeding?
The ingredients on packaging are normally listed in the order of most to least. That is to say the first item is the main ingredient, the second item is another main ingredient but there's not a much as the first item. The third item is less than the previous two and so on. The last ingredient/s have the least amount of stuff in the product.
The first ingredient is mealworms, an insect larvae that has been crushed into a powder. It's not too bad.
The second ingredient is wheat flour. Fish can't digest grains and flours are added to fish food to act as binding agents to hold everything together, and to act as fillers to bulk up the weight of the item. It's basically rubbish added to fish food to make it heavier and fish can't use it.
The third item is herring meal, which can be anything from whole fish to fish guts, scales and bones. It's not too bad but it would be preferable to have whole herring flesh or whole herring instead of herring meal.
Cornstarch is another grain and is useless to fish.
Kelp is good. It's a seaweed and highly nutritious.
Potatoe is useless because fish can't digest terrestrial root vegetables.
Minerals could be anything from sodium chloride (salt) through to calcium, magnesium, iron or anything else. Unfortunately it doesn't state what the minerals are so it's meaningless.
Fish Hydrolysate is basically liquified fish. They would be better off using whole fish at the start so they didn't need this.
Salmon oil is fish oil and that is fine.
It's not the worst fish food but not the best.
The ingredients on packaging are normally listed in the order of most to least. That is to say the first item is the main ingredient, the second item is another main ingredient but there's not a much as the first item. The third item is less than the previous two and so on. The last ingredient/s have the least amount of stuff in the product.
The first ingredient is mealworms, an insect larvae that has been crushed into a powder. It's not too bad.
The second ingredient is wheat flour. Fish can't digest grains and flours are added to fish food to act as binding agents to hold everything together, and to act as fillers to bulk up the weight of the item. It's basically rubbish added to fish food to make it heavier and fish can't use it.
The third item is herring meal, which can be anything from whole fish to fish guts, scales and bones. It's not too bad but it would be preferable to have whole herring flesh or whole herring instead of herring meal.
Cornstarch is another grain and is useless to fish.
Kelp is good. It's a seaweed and highly nutritious.
Potatoe is useless because fish can't digest terrestrial root vegetables.
Minerals could be anything from sodium chloride (salt) through to calcium, magnesium, iron or anything else. Unfortunately it doesn't state what the minerals are so it's meaningless.
Fish Hydrolysate is basically liquified fish. They would be better off using whole fish at the start so they didn't need this.
Salmon oil is fish oil and that is fine.
It's not the worst fish food but not the best.
I’m feeding Mollies cardinal and bleeding heart tetras corys (just got some bug bites for them) and a bn plec ( got some wafers for him)
Can you recommend something I find it’s hard for me to get omega one food in uk,
What about bug bites blue label food
Can you recommend something I find it’s hard for me to get omega one food in uk,
What about bug bites blue label food
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Have a look here for some decent foods...
heronspetworld.co.uk
Heron's Pet World | Free Delivery | UK's Largest Fish Food Store
If there is one thing we really are experts on at Heron’s Pet World, it’s fish. They are our business, our hobby, and our passion. Our main aim to is ensure that customers receive the best quality fish good at the lowest prices possible. We buy direct from manufactures so that we can deliver...
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I used a basic flake food in the morning, then frozen and live food at night.
Marine mix was the staple food I used for most fish. It contains prawn, fish and squid that is minced up and frozen in blocks or sheets. You take some out and feed it to the fish. if the fish have small mouths, use a pair of scissors to cut the food up into little bits.
Then I used frozen brineshrimp, bloodworms, mysis shrimp and daphnia. I used a different one each day.
After the fish had eaten that, I added live newly hatched brineshrimp, or microworms, or mozzie larvae. When the roses had aphids, the aphids got fed to the fish as well.
Marine mix was the staple food I used for most fish. It contains prawn, fish and squid that is minced up and frozen in blocks or sheets. You take some out and feed it to the fish. if the fish have small mouths, use a pair of scissors to cut the food up into little bits.
Then I used frozen brineshrimp, bloodworms, mysis shrimp and daphnia. I used a different one each day.
After the fish had eaten that, I added live newly hatched brineshrimp, or microworms, or mozzie larvae. When the roses had aphids, the aphids got fed to the fish as well.
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Ooooh, good tip!
rainbowfish love aphids
The ingredients of their 'tropical flakes' areHave a look here for some decent foods...
Heron's Pet World | Free Delivery | UK's Largest Fish Food Store
If there is one thing we really are experts on at Heron’s Pet World, it’s fish. They are our business, our hobby, and our passion. Our main aim to is ensure that customers receive the best quality fish good at the lowest prices possible. We buy direct from manufactures so that we can deliver...
"Fish meal, Wheat flour, Vegetable protein concentrate, Dried yeast, Plankton, Algae, Oil and fats, Lecithin, Antioxidants and colourants"
Their Ultra Tropical Flakes contain
"Brewer's yeast, Insect meal, Wheat, Wheat gluten, Soya, Fish hydrolysate, Herring meal, Shrimp hydrolysate, Potato starch, Salmon Oil, Garlic, Shrimp, Curcuma, Crab eggs, Carob, Spirulina, Carrot, Paprika"
See post #5 for Colin's comments on those.
Get rid of the wheat and gluten and you have a great food for fish that like high protein diets. Even having the wheat after the whole herring would be better but it's not a bad looking food.
It's Oase Organix Daily Flakes.
Contains no "meal" so basically no animal testicles, bones, brains, and other cheap leftover bits no one wants.
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