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Description
Keep your cichlid active, healthy and vibrant with Fluval Multi Protein Formula Cichlid Pellets Fish Food. Cichlids need quality food high in protein to keep up with their high metabolisms and rich in carotenes to enhance coloration. Fluval Multi Protein Formula Cichlid Pellets Fish Food contains protein from Atlantic Herring, Norwegian Krill, Atlantic Shrimp and green mussels. It is highly palatable and contains Omega 3 fatty acids and complex carbohydrates from nutritious kelp that is harvested in an ecologically responsible way.
Price Score: 66 out of 100 Points
Variety Score: 71 out of 100 Points
Brand Score: 91 out of 100 Points
Ingredients Score: 76 out of 100 Points
Total Score: 76.8 out of 100 Points
Key Benefits
- High quality, ultra palatable medium-sized sinking pellets for cichlids
- Excellent source of proteins, trace elements and antioxidants from several key ocean fish
- Multi-protein formula (Atlantic Herring, Norwegian Krill, Atlantic Shrimp and green mussels) provides excellent nutrition and helps keep cichlids active and vibrant, with no artificial colorants
- Includes highly nutritious kelp, a rich source of omega 3, polyunsaturated fatty acids, proteins and complex carbohydrates
- Provides full complement of vitamins with stabilized vitamin C
Ingredients
Herring Meal, Krill, Shrimp Meal, Dried Potato, Wheat, Earthworm Meal, Dried Garlic, Mussel Meal, Dried Kelp, Fish Oil (preserved with BHA), Soybean Meal, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Dried Yeast, Lecithin, Vitamin E Supplement, Inositol, Citric Acid (preservative), BHT (preservative), Calcium L-Ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate, Niacin, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Propyl Gallate (preservative), Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Ethoxyquin (preservative), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement.See products with the same ingredients:
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BHT (9)
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Biotin - Harmless ingredient
(242)
Biotin also called vitamin H, vitamin B7 or vitamin B8 is a water-soluble B vitamin. It is involved in a wide range of metabolic processes, both in humans and in other organisms, primarily related to the utilization of fats, carbohydrates, and amino acids.
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Calcium L-Ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate (1)
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Choline Chloride - Harmless ingredient
(236)
Choline chloride is an organic compound with the formula 3NCH2CH2OH]Cl. It is bifunctional, containing both quaternary ammonium salt and an alcohol. The cation is choline, which occurs naturally. It is a white, water-soluble salt used mainly in animal feed..
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Citric Acid - Controversial ingredient
(61)
Citric acid is a weak organic acid that has the chemical formula C 6H 8O 7. It occurs naturally in citrus fruits. In biochemistry, it is an intermediate in the citric acid cycle, which occurs in the metabolism of all aerobic organisms.
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D-Calcium Pantothenate - Controversial ingredient
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Dl-Methionine - Healthy ingredient
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Methionine is an essential amino acid in humans. As the substrate for other amino acids such as cysteine and taurine, versatile compounds such as SAM-e, and the important antioxidant glutathione, methionine plays a critical role in the metabolism and health of many species, including humans.
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Dried Garlic (1)
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Dried Kelp - Healthy ingredient
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Dried Potato (3)
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Dried Yeast (20)
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Earthworm Meal (1)
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Ethoxyquin (11)
Ethoxyquin is a quinoline-based antioxidant used as a food preservative in certain countries and originally to control scald on pears after harvest. It is used as a preservative in some pet foods to slow the development of rancidity of fats.
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Fish Oil - Healthy ingredient
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Folic Acid - Harmless ingredient
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Folate, also known as vitamin B9 and folacin, is one of the B vitamins. Manufactured folic acid, which is converted into folate by the body, is used as a dietary supplement and in food fortification as it is more stable during processing and storage.
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Herring Meal (8)
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Inositol (34)
Inositol, or more precisely myo-inositol, is a carbocyclic sugar that is abundant in brain and other mammalian tissues, mediates cell signal transduction in response to a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters and growth factors and participates in osmoregulation. It is a sugar alcohol with half the sweetness of sucrose.
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Krill (2)
Krill are small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, and are found in all the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian word krill, meaning "small fry of fish", which is also often attributed to species of fish. Krill are considered an important trophic level connection – near the bottom of the food chain – because they feed on phytoplankton and zooplankton, converting these into a form suitable for many larger animals for which krill make up the largest part of their diets.
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Lecithin - Harmless ingredient
(41)
Lecithin is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues which are amphiphilic – they attract both water and fatty substances, and are used for smoothing food textures, emulsifying, homogenizing liquid mixtures, and repelling sticking materials.
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Mussel Meal (1)
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Niacin - Harmless ingredient
(238)
Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is an organic compound and a form of vitamin B3, an essential human nutrient. It has the formula C 6H 5NO 2 and belongs to the group of the pyridinecarboxylic acid. Niacin is obtained in the diet from a variety of whole and processed foods, with highest contents in fortified packaged foods, tuna, salmon, some vegetable and other animal sources.
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Propyl Gallate (1)
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Pyridoxine Hydrochloride - Harmless ingredient
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Riboflavin - Harmless ingredient
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Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement. Food sources include eggs, green vegetables, milk and other dairy product, meat, mushrooms, and almonds. Some countries require its addition to grains. As a supplement it is used to prevent and treat riboflavin deficiency and prevent migraines.
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Shrimp Meal (9)
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Soybean Meal (22)
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Thiamine Mononitrate - Harmless ingredient
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Vitamin A - Harmless ingredient
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Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids. Vitamin A has multiple functions: it is important for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system, and for good vision.
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Vitamin B12 - Harmless ingredient
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Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in the metabolism of every cell of the human body: it is a cofactor in DNA synthesis, and in both fatty acid and amino acid metabolism. It is particularly important in the normal functioning of the nervous system via its role in the synthesis of myelin, and in the maturation of developing red blood cells in the bone marrow.
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Vitamin D3 - Harmless ingredient
(244)
Cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D3 and colecalciferol, is a type of vitamin D which is made by the skin when exposed to sunlight; it is also found in some foods and can be taken as a dietary supplement. It is used to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency and associated diseases, including rickets.
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Vitamin E - Harmless ingredient
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Vitamin E is a group of eight fat soluble compounds that include four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Vitamin E deficiency, which is rare and usually due to an underlying problem with digesting dietary fat rather than from a diet low in vitamin E, can cause nerve problems.
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Wheat (6)
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus Triticum; the most widely grown is common wheat (T. aestivum). The archaeological record suggests that wheat was first cultivated in the regions of the Fertile Crescent around 9600 BCE.
Guaranteed Analysis
| Crude Protein | 35.0% min |
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| Crude Fat | 6.0% min |
| Crude Fiber | 4.0% max |
| Moisture | 9.0% max |
| Ash | 10.0% max |
| Calcium | 1.5% min |
| Phosphorus | 1.0% min |
| Vitamin A | 15,000 IU/kg min |
| Vitamin D3 | 600 IU/kg min |
| Ascorbic Acid | 350 mg/kg min |
| Vitamin E | 150 IU/kg min |
Dry Matter Basis
| Crude Protein | 38.5% |
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| Crude Fat | 6.6% |
| Crude Fiber | 4.4% |
| Moisture | 9.9% |