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This is a good quality food that I have used now for years. Although this food contains corn (corn flour is the first ingredient the better pond foods are more protein based using fish meal or similiar protein based product as the first ingredient), it is readily eaten by all of my goldfish and koi. What I specially like is that it floats and gets quite soft, soft enough that I have watched immature young goldfish suck in a whole pellet so I don't have to worry that only the larger fish can eat this. This food is more of a warm weather summer food, especially since it is corn based so during the cooler months one should feed their fish the spring/fall variety which is wheat based and is more easily digestible. For all of my pets (fish, bird, dogs, cat) I use a '3 food rule' feeding them on a daily basis 3 different foods to help ensure variety and guard against any vitamin deficiencies. In the title I do have a warning about feeding this food to white fish, including platinums and multi-colored with white. The reason for that is if you feed this food to them, they will over time develop a yellowish cast. They will no longer be a crisp bright white although they will most likely revert back in a couple months to brighter white once you stop feeding this food. This is due to the type of yellow/red color enhancement that this food contains. There are other color enhancing foods you can feed you fish if you want to avoid the yellowing, and generally those foods will indicate this in their descriptions, such as Saki-Hikari Professional Color Enhancing Koi Diet. I am very pleased with this food, my fish eagerly consume it, and the ingredients are of a good enough quality as long as I supplement with a better quality protein fish food. I can highly recommend this product.
More technical information: This product according to my package is 'Made in Germany'. For those that are interested here is the ingredient list on the label (in all caps because that is how the label is and I want you to have the exact information on the package):
CORN FLOUR, FISH MEAL, WHEAT STARCH, DEHULLED SOYBEAN MEAL, FEEDING OAT MEAL, WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT GERM MEAL, POTATO PROTEIN, MONOBASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SOYBEAN OIL, YEAST EXTRACT, ASCORBIC ACID (SOURCE OF VITAMIN C) RIBOFLAVIN-5-PHOSPHATE (SOURCE OF VITAMIN B2) INOSITOL, NIACIN (NICOTINIC ACID), A-TOCOPHEROLACETATE (SCOURCE OF VITAMIN E) L-ASCORBYL-2-POLYPHOSPHATE (STABILIZED VITAMIN C) D-CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE (SOURCE OF VITAMIN B1), PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (SOURCE OF VITAMIN B6), VITAMIN A PALMITATE (SOURCE OF VITAMIN A), BIOTIN, VIT. B12 SUPPLEMENT, CHOLECALCIFEROL (SOURCE OF VITAMIN D3), MANGANESE SULFATE MONOHYDRATE, ZINC SULFATE MONOHYDRATE, FERROUS SULFATE MONOHYDRATE, COBALT ACETATE.
COLOR INCLUDES: BETA-CAROTENE (E160A), ANNATTO EXTRACT, CANTHAXANTHIN, ETHOXYQUIN AS A PERSERVATIVE.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS: MIN. CUDE PROTEIN 31.0%, MIN. CRUDE FAT 5.0%, MAX CRUDE FIBER 2.0%, MAX. MOISTURE 7.0%, MIN. PHOSPHORUS 0.9%, MIN. VITAMIN C 100 MG/KG.
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