Backyard Aquaponics
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Is anyone familiar with the New Life Spectrum brand?
http://www.petco.com/product/112084/New ... -Food.aspx

I'm wondering what you think of these ingredients for their goldfish food. Do you think those look safe/good for aquaponics?
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Whole Antarctic krill meal, whole herring meal, whole wheat flour, algae meal, soybean isolate, beta carotene, spirulina, garlic, vegetable and fruit extract (spinach, broccoli, red pepper, zucchini, tomato, pea, red and green cabbage, apple, apricot, mango, kiwi, papaya, peach, pear), vitamin a acetate, d-activated animal sterol (D3), vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine, DL alphatocophero (E), riboflavin supplement, folic acid, niacin, biotin, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydro-chloride, l-ascorby-2-polyphosphate (stable C), ethylenediamine dihydroiodide, cobalt sulfate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, choline chloride.
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Those ingredients are for their "small fish formula", but they look the same for their "large fish formula". I'm interested in their goldfish formula, because those are the fish I'll be growing (STARTING NEXT WEEK! YAY! ), but I couldn't find the ingredients list for that one.

Since I'm only working with 5-10 young goldfish, I'm not concerned about the cost of fish food, and I'd prefer to spend more money on a higher quality product. But if the stuff I can get from Amazon.com with free shipping (like the above brand) is high enough quality, then I'd like to get that.

Thanks.

There are a lot of unpronounceable ingredients. I would stay clear of goldfish formulas, as they are formulated to produce as little ammonia as possible.

NLS I'd a pretty good fish food in the aquarium world.
It does have a habit or making your water brown, but tour gold fish will like it.
You have to be careful of aquaculture food for gold fish, they need low protein food, generally aquaculture food will be too high a protein
That can lead to bloat and other issues

Just make sure you don't overfeed (as in less than you think they need) and supplement with frozen baby peas (warmed and dehulled), Frozen spinach small cut and duckweed if you have it. hopefully they will also have some algae on the sides of the FT to graze on.

Ron - thanks for bumping up this thread!

Thanks everybody for the responses. I ended up buying this feed. I'm only getting about 10-15 goldfish (maybe today!). I have some spirulina flakes to supplement with too.

Sleepe - I love the idea of using peas. Thanks!