so it is better to fed my fhs with pellets with full of fillers like hikari.
Correct. Have another read of the info in the link that I posted previously. Read the entire thread. Take a look at my midas in that thread, that is still to this day swimming in one of my tanks. I have also owned several FH over the years. Bio Gold is a decent food, it has some fillers, but is superior to most of Hikari formulas. Some fillers are not going to cause your genetically inferior FH to have health issues. It's already hard wired to self destruct on its own. Feeding Hikari Bio Gold is the least of your worries.
He states that his gel food mix is 55% protein. That's clearly utter BS...unless he is dehydrating it after he makes it, thus creating his own dry food. Many other fanciful and completely unsubstantiated pronouncements as well.
Good catch, John. I read that article a couple of years ago, and had a chuckle. Buddy needs to hone up on his math skills.
He states:
- "Frozen foods – Again, you are paying a lot of money for something which is 90% water. And I have found a lot of frozen food which has defrosted spoiled and been refrozen. This will give fish food poisoning. No research says there is any benefit to frozen food."
Not only is the "no benefit to frozen food" false, but vitamin enriched frozen food is often the ultimate food for species that typically won't eat dry food in captivity, ask any public aquarium - but the 90% water comment (it's actually closer to 70-80% on average) is EXACTLY the same as ALL gel food mixes.
LMAO
Commercial manufacturers promote their "dry mix" protein/fat etc levels, but they seldom post those same nutrient levels, once the WATER is added.
The following is off of Mazuri website;
NEVER FEED DRY PRODUCT.
- Combine by weight 70% boiling water and 30% Mazuri® gel powder. Adjust ratios to desired texture and need.
So for those that haven't made it past middle school math, that equates to the final product being approx 70% water, and water is a NON-NUTRIENT, hence 70% of what your fish is consuming is a FILLER, just like the fillers found in dry foods, that are used for the same purpose, a binding agent. (not all perhaps, but still fillers)
Something else that should be mentioned, is that a fish food label must contain minimum values, and maximum values of certain components, such as protein, fat. etc. State Govt regulatory agencies can & do check. Those values allow a LOT of wiggle room, and are typically never the exact value, as determined in a lab. As an example, a label could show min 35% protein, but in a lab consistently be closer to 40%. Or a max of 10% ash content, but in a lab consistently be closer to 5%. For some manufacturers it can become a bit of a numbers game, keeping the competition guessing about certain ingredients, and exact values. Some manufacturers won't even disclose what their "starch" consists of. lol I know the owner of NLS very well, he's Chinese, probably close to 90 yrs old at this point (it's been a few yrs since we last spoke), and he ain't telling nobody sheet, unless he absolutely has to. So yeah, good luck with that. lol
From 2012, and old thread regarding Repashy when it first hit the market. It got locked down eventually, but please note that the owner of that line of gel foods would not answer my question regarding nutrient levels, AFTER the addition of water.
Repashy Superfood (for cichlids)? | MonsterFishKeepers.com
I have absolutely nothing against gel foods, but please let's keep it real. For some fish, a potential great food type, no question.
For a FH, that is already accepting bio-gold pellets, my experience with FH, and that formula, which some of my fish also ate for years,
would be a hard pass on the gel food.
Your fish, your call - good luck.
