sinking tropical pellets

[Beling]

I accidentally bought sinking pellets. The label said it's for omnivorous bottom feeders, and my guppies seem to like prowling the bottom of the tank. I ground a bit into powder, and they liked it, but now I'm noticing the first ingredient is dried skim milk. Milk? Isn't that a very un-fishy food? Spirulina is the 7th ingredient, so I'm guessing there isn't much of it. I'm trying to increase their greens, till algae grows.

 

[emeraldking]

Even though it's mentioned being for bottom feeders, the ingredients is liked by other fish as well.

 

[Sgooosh]

I accidentally bought sinking pellets. The label said it's for omnivorous bottom feeders, and my guppies seem to like prowling the bottom of the tank. I ground a bit into powder, and they liked it, but now I'm noticing the first ingredient is dried skim milk. Milk? Isn't that a very un-fishy food? Spirulina is the 7th ingredient, so I'm guessing there isn't much of it. I'm trying to increase their greens, till algae grows.

Could it be to supplement the protein?
either way, all of the many species of fish in my tank love to munch on the Corydoras sinker pellets.
some Cories come up to the surface to munch on bloodworms too.

"dried whey, dried whey product, casein, and dried skim milk, are sometimes used in feed formulation for fish "(https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/dried-skim-milk)

 

[MuddyWaters]

I've read that if the food has 45% protein or more, then it's good. Ideally protein like fish meal or shrimp or something...

 

[emeraldking]

some Cories come up to the surface to munch on bloodworms too.

My Botia lohachata love live bloodworms...

 

[Beling]

Sgooosh--you're funny.
I just can't think of any natural way milk can end up in a fish's food chain. Unless they feed on mammals. As someone who doesn't like milk anyway, I'm a little disgusted thinking it's the main ingredient in fish food. But I suppose by the time it's processed it becomes like any other protein. (But I can tell the difference between milk and bloodworms.)

 

[Fishyfreeonz]

Sgooosh--you're funny.
I just can't think of any natural way milk can end up in a fish's food chain. Unless they feed on mammals. As someone who doesn't like milk anyway, I'm a little disgusted thinking it's the main ingredient in fish food. But I suppose by the time it's processed it becomes like any other protein. (But I can tell the difference between milk and bloodworms.)

Personally I love milk and I don't think I would use a fish food that contained it. I agree it's not naturally in the food chain for fish as far as I know and it doesn't seem like a good thing to add.

 

[Sgooosh]

Sgooosh--you're funny.
I just can't think of any natural way milk can end up in a fish's food chain. Unless they feed on mammals. As someone who doesn't like milk anyway, I'm a little disgusted thinking it's the main ingredient in fish food. But I suppose by the time it's processed it becomes like any other protein. (But I can tell the difference between milk and bloodworms.)

not what i mean, i probably spaced that out weirdly.
I mean that sometimes my bottom feeder fish come to the top of the tank to munch on floating foods.

additional protein supplements include:
"Animal proteins are generally considered to be higher quality than plant proteins.
Animal proteins used in fish feeds come from marine fish meals, catfish offal meal, meat and bone/blood meal, and poultry byproduct meal,inedible tissues from meat packing or rendering plants, milk products.
Plant protein sources used in fish feeds are oilseed meals, such as soybean meal, cottonseed meal, and peanut meal,skim milk powder, legumes, and wheat gluten ."
- barely any of these are in fishes' "natural food chain"
(https://www.zenopelletmachine.com/fish-feed-ingredients-in-aquaculture/)

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Well- sinking foods are usually pretty dry. Skim milk is awfully wet and that is mostly water. But dry it out and there is a lot less volume and weight. I am not sure is would even be possible to know the milk content of the final product. Now I know how ingredients for human food are listed, and I am assuming it is the same for fish foods.

The ingredients in packaged food and beverage items are listed separately from (and often below) the Nutrition Facts label. This information lists each ingredient in the product by its common or usual name, and in descending order by weight. That is, the ingredient that weighs the most is listed first, and the ingredient that weighs the least is listed last.