Fish food and wheat flour

[Cory]

Ive been reading Ingrediets lately of fish food pellets. All of them I've read contain wheat flour or land based plant derivatives. Kind of annoys me that a fish would never eat that in the wild, so why add it?

I also wonder what effect wheat flour would have ecologically and chemically on the water. What kind of nitrogen and carbon source does wheat flour have in relation to seawater plants?

Anyway I think it's a bad idea. The only food to contain natural seawater ingredients I've found is rods original food. Even has Copepods, but I don't think it's in pellet form.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Probably put in to form the pellets. I doubt it does anything bad, but I wouldn't prefer it either.

 

[sawdonkey]

My fish order off of the gluten free menu. They are not vegetarians though.

Just curious Cory, are you allergic to gluten/gluten free?

 

[Cory]

Probably put in to form the pellets. I doubt it does anything bad, but I wouldn't prefer it either.

I agree. I'm on a quest for natural seawater food. What food do you feed your fish?

 

[Cory]

My fish order off of the gluten free menu. They are not vegetarians though.

Just curious Cory, are you allergic to gluten/gluten free?

Gluten free! Haha. We'll it'll be the day we see fish walking out if water and chowing down on wheat fields. I'm not allergic to gluten or wheat products. But I've read about the Paleo diet.

Anyone use rods food original blend?

 

[tyler1503]

Coeliac fish...I hope not!
I'm on board with the all natural diet for my fish too. The most processed things they get is nori and hikari frozen mysis.
I believe a natural diet is the key to healthy fish. Sure a fancy skimmer and reactors and whatnot are helpful, but I believe a good diet should be top of the list.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I agree. I'm on a quest for natural seawater food. What food do you feed your fish?

Rods frozen food, Prime Reef frozen cubes, Arctipods, and Reed Real Ocean Eggs. The latter two are on a timer and are fed several times a day. The first two alternate days.

 

[marke]

I think frozen food is better than pellets in terms of nutrition for our fish and corals. My favorite are LRS and roggers food. Problem with frozen is nutrient levels can get pushed higher from over feeding and bad water not being strained out. I like to mix the diet up and use pellets and frozen!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Why do you think "bad water" is a problem with frozen foods?

 

[Cory]

With my concern it is that frozen food contains much more dissolved particles that bacteria can get to quicker for the surface area of particles. But just a guess.