To clarify on a different food for every fish. Its an easy sell. I bought it for many years. If it were true wouldn't LMB food be made from bluegill and HSB food be made from shad. In reality it is providing enough protein to maintain and grow tissue and muscle mass and enough energy (fat and starch) to make them plump.
Ideally a food for carnivores should look like this: 40% P 7% F and 20% Starch. Unfortunately this causes problems. Moisture content over 10% has a good chance of growing mold. Getting over 5% fiber without using exotic ingredients is impossible. Minerals seem to max out at around 10%. So where is the remaining 8%? As you can see its not easy limiting protein, starch and fat and make a formula work.
Typically this would be remedied like this: 40% P 7% F 28% Starch 5% Fiber 10% Minerals or Ash and 10% moisture. The problem with this solution is excess energy.
I will try to come up with a formula that limits starch and raises either minerals or fiber.
**EDIT** Fish with short digestive tracts like carnivores can only extract so much starch before it is passed.
Last edited by Fish Food; 01/03/16 03:46 AM.
