Yeah….almost seems unavoidable. Local Asian Market opens back up tomorrow and I’m going to check there to see what they have but I feel like I’m not going to be able to get away from the Tripolyphosphate.
I actually have a bag of it in my pantry. I really do use it. I'm disgusting I know. But it's so awesome for smoked meats.
Yea, I’m going to avoid that stuff then unfortunately.
I feed Nyos Wild Goji pellets and most of my fish crush them. But pellets are only only going to go so far and are not ideal as a staple, single diet. Nutritional variety is key to helping to ensure our fish get everything they need which is why frozen foods are generally best…the ingredient diversity far outweighs what goes into pellet/flake foods (I’m even adding pellets to my frozen mix).Just a suggestion, I know not what was asked but good quality pellets do work.
I use the following:
And it has very few things inside:
Works well, fish look nice:
I tried frozen home made and honestly the fish did not look as healthy or colourful and I always had water quality issues.
With these pellets I feed 4 times a day and there is no aggression between the fish. With frozen there was always aggression.
I do believe that is opinion repeated on R2R.
I’ve been seeing the exact opposite by feeding frozen (Rod’s, LRS, occasional Hikari cubes) and all of my fish have excellent color, fat reserves, etc. A properly mixed frozen diet that has multiple beneficial ingredients is, again, key here. Mincing up just proteins from shrimp, fish, squid, etc isn’t enough…astaxanthin, spirulina for color, lipids, omega acids, etc etc is where the true nutritional value comes into play. To each his own, though…whatever works for you keep doing it.
i should have clarified. In the ocean, fish are eating whole, raw foods that aren’t being cut up, de-gutted and processed by us. By fortifying the foods we prepare for them helps ensure they are getting everything they need as a lot of nutritional value is lost during the processing, de-gutting, etc.
