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Daniel,
Thank you for the article. very informative. Have you done any research on the vitamin & mineral content of the food? It would be interesting to see how these companies differ in that respect.
Thanks again.
O.
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I really don't know too much about the vitamin part of the fish food. I questioned it a few times and the general answer was, "you can see how much vitamins are in the food." I plan to do more research later on, but for now I need a little break from "fish food." :)
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Understandable! Thanks for the info. Looks like it's going to be a great article!
O.
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Thank you, the complement really means a lot. :)
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Daniel congrats on your research as I too have the passion of balanced nutritional diet for Tropical Fish. Nicely written and informative... ;D
A-
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Hi Daniel,
Nice write up! Thank you for sharing it. I will sticky this for a while here!
-al
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Good article man. Try publishing to TFH, worth a try. :)
Bruce
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Hi Daniel,
and welcome to simply!
that was a great article and very enjoyable read, I think your a very talented aquarist, and I hope next time I pick up a FAMA or TFH, I'll get to read something from you!
Just want to ask if any of your research took you to the aquaculture and fishfarming industries?
again, good job Dude! :thumbsup:
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Fantastic write up! thanks for posting it! Keep pursuing your talent writing articles! It is a gift seldom realised!
Good work!
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Thank you for the complements!!! As for the question about did my research take me to the aquaculture and fishfarming industries, the only place it did take me was to New Life Internationial. But, maybe a write up on the aquaculture and fishfarming industries would make a good article in the future! However, I need about a month before even considering doing more research (even though I did have fun writting this article). I did send my article in to TFH and Aquarium Fish, but I don't think I will get anywhere. I just don't think magazines like that would be interested in a little tiny article that I wrote. To be honest, I like my article, but I feel it could have been better some how. Well, in the great words of Forest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."
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You'd be surprised! if you beefed it up with a conclusion based on facts, a few pictures of the foods they may very well accept it and publish it!
Remeber the old addage, "you never never know if you never never go!"
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Why true Chong. :thumbsup:
Great job Daniel. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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[quote]Very nice thread going here, too.
So I thought i'd interject my post from the Omega food
topic in here also:
Quote:
Originally Posted by "Bernie"
Let me throw one or two more factors into this hopper, since we have some
"food enthusiasts" following this thread...
When animal proteins are first exposed to heat (processing), the cells burst, mixing their contents and then "gelling" them together in a process
called "binding". Fish foods that use fish meal, PDP or other processed
protein ingredients have lost alot of the "quality" by using large amounts
of plant starches as binders which are not only much less nutritious, but less attractive or appealing to the fish.
Omega uses a "natural gel" made up of undenatured (un-processed)
animal proteins.
The high ash content of much of the foods are a result of using large
amounts of grains and yeasts (again, adding very little nutrition).
Omega uses kelp and algae instead and is able to keep the ash
content under 2%.
Vitamin retention--- Foods that use plant binders (like the meal makers);
do add vitamins. Problem is; the binders are water soluble; therefore
the vitamins begin to leach out into the water often before the fish get
to consume enough.
Omega's use of un-denatured marine proteins in a natural gel ARE NOT
WATER SOLUBLE and therfore the fish get to consume the full amount
of vitamins added.
Bear with me...for one more point.
Let me touch again on color enhancers..... as this area is something I,
myself, was unaware of until we started with Omega.
Fish skin, particularly salmon which contains silver, yellow, blue and red
caratenoids offer the highest useable level of color enhancers possible.
Unlike shrimp and krill who's high level of caratenoids are mostly
"UN-USABLE" due to its poor digestibility; ... the skins of fish can be
fully utilized and digested thereby helping fish reach their "peak" coloration.
The dark flecks visible in the Omega flakes are, in fact, tiny pieces
of finely groundfish skins which are included in the fresh, whole fish
ingredients of the Omega flake.
OK.... we're done for today!!
See ya all
Bernie