GO-PET fish flakes better than HBH etc?

[Savage_roo]

this will probly sound dum but can u get a powder that you can just add to any fish food
That has all the stuff in it
Then it won't matter what food u get
Just a thought :roll:

[phagus]

didn't read all the posts but just couldn't go past this without pissing myself.....
"who has more knoweledge in this field then people who deal with fish for a living ( ie LFS owners)."
that's the funniest thing i have heard in awhile cosmo :lol:  fair enough some lfs employees know their stuff but others just bullshit you to make a sale.

i use go-pet as a base flake and supplement with live and fresh foods....
value for money, and i prefer not to feed my fish wheat :roll:

[here fishie fishie]

[quote:9226c497de]here fishy fishy (if that is your real name! lol)[/quote:9226c497de] Take u long to think of that one?? very funny, I am still deciding if it is worth a laugh or just a chuckle. :roll: in the end got nothing  :idea: By the way spelt with an ie.

I had a look at ingredients, looks good. Silly me for missing that at the start. :oops:

I am impressed to see Chlorella(Algae) in the ingredients. Chlorella is a very good source of vitamins, fibre :roll:, amongst others. 20% fibrous, 80% Nutrients. The Japanese love it, use it as a supplement.  Very similar to Spirulina; use this or spirulina, or blue green algae, for your fish or yourselves, all have similar properties.

My only concern is what % of proteins is in this food. Does it have that on the label. Looking at all the ingredients seems it will be very high.

[quote:9226c497de]who has more knoweledge in this field then people who deal with fish for a living ( ie LFS owners)."
that's the funniest thing i have heard in awhile cosmo  fair enough some lfs employees know their stuff but others just bullshit you to make a sale.[/quote:9226c497de]I had a good laugh at that too, Obviously dosen't visit many lfs. Thats the same as saying everyone that is on Cichlid forums, have more knowledge than those that arent.  :lol:

[quote:9226c497de]now when you compare this to a specialised cichlid flake, the notable thing that is absent is any wheat based ingredients. surely this is a good thing. Wheat products are usually in the top 2 ingredients of most of the expensive brands. I don't know any fish that eats wheat in the wild. Also this stuff is missing all the myriad of vitamans etc of the expensive stuff. [/quote:9226c497de]Wheat is used to offer fibre, and Chlorella gives that & oh minerals, vitamins too. :roll: Then again, [quote:9226c497de]really i just reckon feeding any shit food likle that to your fish is just being cheap and lazy[/quote:9226c497de]. wasn't very umm, hmmm, well yeh....

Enjoy :!:  :lol:

Frenchy :D

[here fishie fishie]

To answer Lloyd's question. ps; how is it going out there?

The recipe I have,
1kg of whole shrimps
1kg of green peas, frozen.
10ml Spirulina powder
100grams gelatine
10 drops of multivitamins
Optionally, 150grams pelleted fish food, (no mammalian fat) if you are going to feed the mix to juveniles.
If you are feeeding to piscivores , less greens. Herbivores less shrimp....

Frenchy :D

[mudskipper]

thanks for that frenchy,

all going good out here, every spare tank is full of young ones.

cheers lloyd

[here fishie fishie]

What is this "spare" tank you talk of?? 8O

Frenchy :D

[dammwoman]

Have been away so havn't answered question on recipe but very simular to Frenchys. I add Garlic and use Agar instead of Gelatine.
Make up about 10kgs in a batch but then use that as a base with  some additions to smaller quantities from that base eg add more veges for the L number catties. More fish (usually whitebait) for Americans ect.
Puree down for tiny fry with a bit of egg yolk.
The Go Pet food does read as if it should be a good food and I think it is made by King British which is a leading English flake food company.
Had never looked at it before but I will give it a try in the future and see what I think.
Cheers Linda

[fishtraderlau]

rightio all,

Aquariums Alive has graciously sent up the food and it has arrived so give me tomorrow with the day off work to get some photos and move some fish around and we will kick off the trial....i'll get up a new post about it and we'll see how we go!

Cheers all,

Andrew.

[gasnitro]

this is a link that may  be of some help
http://cichlid-forum.com/articles/food_recipes.php

[gc]

With all else equil, calories = growth.
For this test to be scientificly valid each tank will have to be fed the same amount of calories at each feeding. If not, the group of fish that gets more calories is most likely to grow the fastest.

Fat: 9 calories per gram.
Protien: 4 calories per gram.
Carbohydrates: 4 calories per gram.