Purina Sinking Catfish Food 50 lbs INGREDIENTS

[Knowdafish]

.....The general population walks through life with very little in the way of critical thinking skills, so it is understandable that the membership here pretty much follows suit. .....

My feelings exactly!


Excellent post BTW Chompers. You covered all the bases very well!

 

[kdrun76]

My feelings exactly!


Excellent post BTW Chompers. You covered all the bases very well!

I think the phrase "ignorance is bliss" applies here.

As does "arm chair quarterback".

Those of us that are or were on the inside of this industry are unanimous in stating how poor the quality and how disturbing the manufacturing is.... and those on the outside are perfectly happy pretending that that isn't the truth.


Carry on in ignorance. Sometimes not knowing is easier.

 

[armac]

kd.

Tell us again about your master's degree, I did not get a clear picture from your posts 26 and 40. Maybe if you repeat it once more us ignorant folks will see that you are a well educated man with much to share.

Let's see your fish

 

[BigJ]

I did read the whole thing and I will respectfully disagree with about 90% of it.

My first problem is... any chance you could post in a legible color? Why post something so thoughtfully written in blue on a blue background unless your goal was to be irritating? That text has to be highlighted in order to be read.

I earned my masters degree making fish food for the aquaculture industry 10 years ago. I have been in many fish feed manufacturing plants, I have been in hundreds of aquaculture facilities and I have gone to the wheat rendering plants to attain the "wheat midlings" needed. The food I made used the waste product from the local quohogging industry as the protein component, but in order to do a fair and controlled study I had to also make the same recipe using fish meal instead. I also grew control fish on Zeigler brand pellets (an aquaculture industry standard.)

The wheat grinders have huge dust trays to catch the middlings, those trays are swept out. Any on the floor under the machine is added to the pile.

I have raised fish on pellets, home made food that is made with industry ingredients (fish meal) and home made food made with quohog bellies (also industrial garbage). I do know what I am talking about.

If you want to grow healthy fish you need to use healthy ingredients. Its the difference between survive and thrive.

Yes, your fish will survive on that Purina food, no they will not thrive on it. As you said... they are just fish. So, be happy to have them survive and feed them industrial waste. That is your choice.

Anytime you want to see healthy and thriving fish, let me know.

Throw some pictures up. Show us why your the best fish keeper.

 

[Citrinellus]

No reason to attack kd for sharing her experience and knowledge on the matter. I respect both chompers and kd's opinions, they provided a good argument and backed it up well with facts. As of right now, I'm feeding more tilapia and other prepared foods. But, I haven't stopped feeding a commercial pellet, because of its ease of feeding and some benefits. I think we have to find a equilibrium of both methods that suits us.

 

[TwistedPenguin]

As an observer of this thread I'm getting the distinct impression more than a few of you are taking sides without really hearing what's being said. You're also assuming popular & expensive equates quality. It doesn't take a college degree to read the back of most pellets (Hikari included) and see it's not a good fish diet. The Purina Catfish food is garbage as far as I'm concerned. If I only thought of my fish as "fish" I'd probably feed crap like that, but to me they're not 'just fish' & I get very attached to my pets. I feed as close to their natural diet as possible. Some of you need to stop with the lemming act and think for yourselves.

 

[Red_Belly_Pacu]

I am still going to buy the purina mill fish food regardless of what people say here. The type I am going to buy is 45% protein, and 10% fat which is the same as tropical fish flakes. You can argue all you want on what is in it.

 

[kdrun76]

Throw some pictures up. Show us why your the best fish keeper.

It would be my pleasure to post more pictures, but I am no photographer. I have never said I was the best fish keeper. I said that most commercially prepared food was of poor quality. Perhaps you should re-read the thread.

FYI: I am a woman. Well educated? Compared to some I suppose I am, compared to others, I have much to learn.

I too feed tilapia, this one's name is Taco. He is a 4 species hybrid, both of his parents were 2 species hybrids. He is the offspring of some of the fish I was working with 10 years ago. He is now 9 years old. He is about 15" long and lives with a school of about 40 giant danios, 15 danios and a sail fin pleco. (Originally there were only 14 giant danios and 9 danios, but every time I count them, there are more!) These pictures are about 8 months old, the tank is now planted with an assortment of cichlid tolerant plants.

I have several other tanks and several other fish, but I am not sure posting pics is in any way related to the topic of this thread....food quality, and food ingredients.

 

[bob965]

I am still going to buy the purina mill fish food regardless of what people say here. The type I am going to buy is 45% protein, and 10% fat which is the same as tropical fish flakes. You can argue all you want on what is in it.

This kind of thinking is exactly why they do things like include feather meal and other garbage to bump up the crude protein percentage. A lot of people think they are being proactive by looking at the numbers without any real understanding of what they mean.

 

[Red_Belly_Pacu]

This kind of thinking is exactly why they do things like include feather meal and other garbage to bump up the crude protein percentage. A lot of people think they are being proactive by looking at the numbers without any real understanding of what they mean.

Actually calling a person an idiot for buying this stuff is not going to help at all and would actually hurt on what your point is. It is like going to a store and saying, " Hey you friggen idiot dont buy this stuff, it is full of garbage." In my opinion, people would think you are .