Harmful Preservatives In Fish Food?

[Odysseus]

I had taken care of Hermit crabs for a while, and in that time I was told not to feed a commercial diet. The reason I was told is that their small bodies can't handle filtering out all the toxins contained in the preservatives. For instance, Copper sulfate is bad for them and can have adverse effects over long periods of ingestion. Ethyoxiquin is another bad one which I heard is capable of being eaten by bigger animals such as cats or dogs, but is hard on the liver of smaller animals. This has led me to be a little bit skeptic on how these commercial diets work for our fish. I mean sure, they contain most of the stuff they need, but surely these preservatives can't be harmless to fish and detrimental to hermit crabs, can they?

 

[pica_nuttalli]

you'd be surprised by the differences in what a fish and an invertebrate can't tolerate. i can't speak for hermit crabs, but i'd be shocked that feeding a quality processed food such as that produced by Hikari contained preservatives detrimental to the health of fish.

were you told to not feed a processed hermit crab food or were you just warned against feeding processed foods in general?

 

[Odysseus]

you'd be surprised by the differences in what a fish and an invertebrate can't tolerate. i can't speak for hermit crabs, but i'd be shocked that feeding a quality processed food such as that produced by Hikari contained preservatives detrimental to the health of fish.

were you told to not feed a processed hermit crab food or were you just warned against feeding processed foods in general?

I was warned against feeding processed foods to hermit crabs only, however a lot of those people don't feed their other pets process food like their dogs or cats.

 

[rarefish]

I know exactly what you're talking about when it comes to the hermit crab food. The problem is that those big companies don't care about the crabs- they only care about the money and how much of their product they can get out on the market. I'm not sure about fish foods. I put my trust into Tetra .

rarefish

 

[Lhutch]

i know what you mean, not all fish food on the market is gonna be good