Algea Disks

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

Wardley's first 5 main ingredients are spirulina and other plant products. Hikari's first five ingredients are fish meal and other animal products. Hikari is also double the price for the same amount as wardleys. Why would I want to feed "algea disks" that have almost no plant products.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

you forgot about the chinese special ingredient! MSG!

 

[Synirr]

Those aren't Hikari's algae wafers, those are their bottom-feeder wafers! They're made for bottom-feeding fish who do not survive primarily on algae, like cory catfish. I think they do make algae wafers as well, though. All my bottom feeders love the Hikari wafers, and my oscar gets them as a treat sometimes since he goes nuts over them!

 

[mattbeau]

indead, all my bottom feaders go nuts for the stuff, even the shrimp.

no complaints with hikari here

 

[Dubby]

Wardley's first 5 main ingredients are spirulina and other plant products. Hikari's first five ingredients are fish meal and other animal products. Hikari is also double the price for the same amount as wardleys. Why would I want to feed "algea disks" that have almost no plant products.

Is this what you compared? http/www.hikari.info/tropical/t_04.html
I agree Wardley is priced lower but I have found Hikari products to be excellent.

 

[Barracuda518]

I agree on the Hikari. I use both the Hikari pellots for bottom feeders and the Wardley algae wafers, and my cories and really all my fish go crazy over both of them. Ive heard nothing but good comments about Hikari products.

 

[Bloo]

I can't really compare as I haven't used Wardley before - but I've used various different types of Hikari food and all my fish go nuts over it. The wafers and pellets especially - all the fish tuck in - not just those it's aimed at.

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

Is this what you compared? http/www.hikari.info/tropical/t_04.html
I agree Wardley is priced lower but I have found Hikari products to be excellent

No, I read the actual list of ingredients on the back of the package. I don't know how its done in the UK, but in the US all the ingredients must be listed on the package, starting with the ingredient that the product contains the most of, and working down to the last. In the case of hikari, the first 5 most abundant ingredients are fish meal and other animal products. I noticed in the link there was no actual list of ingredients.

What I was asking is why would I want to feed an herbivorous fish an "algea wafer" that was made mostly from animal sources? Its a question of the proper nutrition as opposed to what do your fish gobble up faster

 

[Fish_Mike]

Hikari - Ingredients: white fish meal, wheat flour, wheat-germ meal, alpha starch, dehydrated alfalfa meal, soybean meal, fish oil, brewer's dried yeast, shrimp meal, spirulina, salt, carotene, monopotassium phosphate, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, Vitamin K3, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, biotin, folic acid, inositol, choline chloride, l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilized vitamin C), magnesium sulfate, manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, iron sulfate, calcium iodate, cobalt sulfate, aluminum hydroxide

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

I have a package of HIKARI TROPICAL SINKING WAFERS here in front of me and those ingredients you listed are almost word for word exactly what is in these wafers. However, when I looked at the HIKARI ALGAE WAFERS, which I do not have in my posession, I remember the ingredients differing from what you listed, but I am probably remembering incorrectly. Why would I feed an herbivorous fish a wafer that was made of mostly animal products?

What is the bennefit?

Just for info sake, the ingredients on the Wardley's Algae Discs:

Spirulina algae meal, corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal, corn distillers dried grains, wheat flour, wheat germ, wheat gluten, wheat middlings, linseed meal, canola meal, dehulled soybean meal, soy protein concentrate, pea protein, brewers dried yeast, corn flour, rice flour, dehydrated alfalfa meal, soy protein isolate, ground barley, calcium carbonate, soybean oil, spinach powder - Then a bunch of vitamins etc.

 

[Fish_Mike]

Got no idea what benefit the would be (if there even are any), but i got the ingredients from the Hikari USA website, under Algae wafers

Really just posted for everyone's reference __

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

Cool, basically I'm just tryin to figure out which would be the superior product. Logic would indicate that the wardleys, having far more plant based nutrition, would be better to give to herbivorous fish. But that may not be the case, and I was hoping those with some knowledge could offer compelling arguments.

 

[Synirr]

Edit: Ok, n/m, I see now. You're saying the primary ingredient is fish meal. The product is meant to be nutritionally balanced for the fish it is for, so I imagine that's why, but it's probably not best for all types of algae eaters.

 

[Dubby]

Is this what you compared? http/www.hikari.info/tropical/t_04.html
I agree Wardley is priced lower but I have found Hikari products to be excellent

No, I read the actual list of ingredients on the back of the package. I don't know how its done in the UK, but in the US all the ingredients must be listed on the package, starting with the ingredient that the product contains the most of, and working down to the last. In the case of hikari, the first 5 most abundant ingredients are fish meal and other animal products. I noticed in the link there was no actual list of ingredients.

What I was asking is why would I want to feed an herbivorous fish an "algea wafer" that was made mostly from animal sources? Its a question of the proper nutrition as opposed to what do your fish gobble up faster

Sorry for the confusion What I meant was - do you have a package of "Hikari Tropical Algae wafers" or something else?

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

Well, what I actually have in my posession is HIKARI TROPICAL WAFERS, but I have read the ingredients for HIKARI ALGEA WAFERS, and these were the ingredients I was talking about in the original post. It also turns out that both hikari's tropical wafers, and their "algea wafers" have nearly identical ingredients.