My local FS told me that my fish can eat human vitamans ?
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lion_crazz
Active Member
No, I was actually reading somewhere that said that human vitamins can be bad for fish. I do not remember where I was reading it, but if I find it, I will post it.
Regardless, I would just stick to the vitamins they make for fish (Zoe, Selcon, VitaChem, ZoeCon, MarineC, etc.) All of these vitamins work very well, and are not expensive at all.
Regardless, I would just stick to the vitamins they make for fish (Zoe, Selcon, VitaChem, ZoeCon, MarineC, etc.) All of these vitamins work very well, and are not expensive at all.
stanlalee
Active Member
You could very easily give human vitamins to fish if you were versed enough to know suitable dosages. What do you guys think, these vitamins are special marine only varients? wrap it in some squid and serve it up.
Ingredients to ZoeCon: deionized water, marine lipids (shark liver oil), ascorbic acid (vitamin C), thiamine (Vitamin B1), niacin (Vitamin B3), tocopherol (that would be vitamin E), vitamin B12.
each and every one of those are readily available over the counter at any GNC or drug store and is no different than what you are using. Its probably better being for home consumption. same goes for the 250mg tabs of Flagyl you can buy at the LPS but need a prescription to get for yourself.
Ingredients to ZoeCon: deionized water, marine lipids (shark liver oil), ascorbic acid (vitamin C), thiamine (Vitamin B1), niacin (Vitamin B3), tocopherol (that would be vitamin E), vitamin B12.
each and every one of those are readily available over the counter at any GNC or drug store and is no different than what you are using. Its probably better being for home consumption. same goes for the 250mg tabs of Flagyl you can buy at the LPS but need a prescription to get for yourself.
v-lioness
Member
After searching this topic (not thoroughly...lol) the vitamins of course should be water soluble..... I may try this myself.....
This one says and it is a pretty detailed article which I will book mark:
Baby vitamin solutions generally contain all the necessary vitamins fish
require and I have used them without any detrimental effects.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb16.html
Good Topic, I am interested to see what others have to say.......
Kaye
This one says and it is a pretty detailed article which I will book mark:
Baby vitamin solutions generally contain all the necessary vitamins fish
require and I have used them without any detrimental effects.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb16.html
Good Topic, I am interested to see what others have to say.......
Kaye
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nereef
Guest
Originally Posted by V-Lioness
After searching this topic (not thoroughly...lol) the vitamins of course should be water soluble.....
why would they have to be water soluble? fish have fat too. we feed them meaty foods which have fat. besides, without A, D, E, and K they would screwed.
After searching this topic (not thoroughly...lol) the vitamins of course should be water soluble.....
why would they have to be water soluble? fish have fat too. we feed them meaty foods which have fat. besides, without A, D, E, and K they would screwed.
pbienkiewi
Member
Now don't vitamins have some small amount of metals in them ?? zinc, copper PHOSPHORUS, Manganese, Chromium ,,,,,,,,,,,
PROTEIN 7 Gm N/A*
Vitamin A 7000 IU 140%
Vitamin C 1000 Mg 1670%
Vitamin D 500 IU 125%
Vitamin E 400 IU 1330%
Vitamin K 5 Mcg 6%
Thiamin Hcl 25 Mg 1670%
Riboflavin 25 Mg 1470%
Niacin 100 Mg 500%
Pyrodoxine Hcl 25 Mg 1250%
Folic Acid 400 Mcg 100%
Vitamin B-12 25 Mcg 420%
Biotin 25 Mcg 100%
Pantothenic Acid 100 Mg 1000%
CALCIUM 500 Mg 50%
IRON 18 Mg 100%
PHOSPHORUS 200 Mg 20%
Iodine 180 Mcg 120%
Magnesium 200 Mg N/A*
Zinc 15 Mg 100%
Selenium 50 Mcg 70%
Copper 0.2 Mg 10%
Manganese 4 Mg 200%
Chromium 50 Mcg 40%
Molybdenum 50 Mcg 70%
Potassium 99 Mg 2%
Alanine 210 Mg N/A*
Arginine 217 Mg N/A*
Aspartic Acid 452 Mg N/A*
Cystine/Cysteine 74 Mg N/A*
Glutamic Acid 1400 Mg N/A*
Glycine 126 Mg N/A*
Histidine 172 Mg N/A*
Isoleucine 332 Mg N/A*
Lysine 504 Mg N/A*
Leucine 623 Mg N/A*
Methionine 182 Mg N/A*
Phenylalanine 332 Mg N/A*
Proline 742 Mg N/A*
Serine 42 Mg N/A*
Threonine 276 Mg N/A*
TRYPTOPHAN 98 Mg N/A*
Tyrosine 364 Mg N/A*
Valine 402 Mg N/A*
Hesperidin Complex 25 Mg N/A*
LEMON BIOFLAVONOID 400 Mg N/A*
PABA 25 Mg N/A*
Choline 100 Mg N/A*
Rutin 0 N/A*
Lecithin 350 Mg N/A*
Inositol 100 Mg N/A*
Rice Bran
some of these don't sound to good for my corals
PROTEIN 7 Gm N/A*
Vitamin A 7000 IU 140%
Vitamin C 1000 Mg 1670%
Vitamin D 500 IU 125%
Vitamin E 400 IU 1330%
Vitamin K 5 Mcg 6%
Thiamin Hcl 25 Mg 1670%
Riboflavin 25 Mg 1470%
Niacin 100 Mg 500%
Pyrodoxine Hcl 25 Mg 1250%
Folic Acid 400 Mcg 100%
Vitamin B-12 25 Mcg 420%
Biotin 25 Mcg 100%
Pantothenic Acid 100 Mg 1000%
CALCIUM 500 Mg 50%
IRON 18 Mg 100%
PHOSPHORUS 200 Mg 20%
Iodine 180 Mcg 120%
Magnesium 200 Mg N/A*
Zinc 15 Mg 100%
Selenium 50 Mcg 70%
Copper 0.2 Mg 10%
Manganese 4 Mg 200%
Chromium 50 Mcg 40%
Molybdenum 50 Mcg 70%
Potassium 99 Mg 2%
Alanine 210 Mg N/A*
Arginine 217 Mg N/A*
Aspartic Acid 452 Mg N/A*
Cystine/Cysteine 74 Mg N/A*
Glutamic Acid 1400 Mg N/A*
Glycine 126 Mg N/A*
Histidine 172 Mg N/A*
Isoleucine 332 Mg N/A*
Lysine 504 Mg N/A*
Leucine 623 Mg N/A*
Methionine 182 Mg N/A*
Phenylalanine 332 Mg N/A*
Proline 742 Mg N/A*
Serine 42 Mg N/A*
Threonine 276 Mg N/A*
TRYPTOPHAN 98 Mg N/A*
Tyrosine 364 Mg N/A*
Valine 402 Mg N/A*
Hesperidin Complex 25 Mg N/A*
LEMON BIOFLAVONOID 400 Mg N/A*
PABA 25 Mg N/A*
Choline 100 Mg N/A*
Rutin 0 N/A*
Lecithin 350 Mg N/A*
Inositol 100 Mg N/A*
Rice Bran
some of these don't sound to good for my corals
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nereef
Guest
multivitamins are a different story. of course you need to look at what is in it before you feed it to your fish. the same goes for taking it yourself. i believe we are talking about things such as: vitamin C, E, B complex vitamins, etc.
v-lioness
Member
I posted this and it did not show........ I said something like ....lol
"why would they have to be water soluble? fish have fat too. we feed them meaty foods which have fat. besides, without A, D, E, and K they would screwed."
I agree with what you are saying but when I say Water Soluble I am thinking pollutants building up over time. If I soak my foods in vitamins from a capsule that may have any oils which will not dissolve........ so on & so forth!
I posted this before your last post .....
"of course you need to look at what is in it before you feed it to your fish."
I think we are on the same page with this.....lol
Kaye
"why would they have to be water soluble? fish have fat too. we feed them meaty foods which have fat. besides, without A, D, E, and K they would screwed."
I agree with what you are saying but when I say Water Soluble I am thinking pollutants building up over time. If I soak my foods in vitamins from a capsule that may have any oils which will not dissolve........ so on & so forth!
I posted this before your last post .....
"of course you need to look at what is in it before you feed it to your fish."
I think we are on the same page with this.....lol
Kaye
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nereef
Guest
water quality suffering from fat soluble is an interesting question.
as far as looking at what is in the vitamin, i was commenting on pbienkiewi's post.
as far as looking at what is in the vitamin, i was commenting on pbienkiewi's post.
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nereef
Guest
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sprang
Member
This sounds quite strange, to say the least. What would be the benefit of this, and why is your l.f.s telling you this? Do they not carry supplements for marine fish? Sounds like another person pulling things out thier butt. I talk to lots of them everyday. A bottle of centrum probably is the same cost of most any sup. you would want? I guess I'm missing something? Is it for A f.o. tank?
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nereef
Guest
the benefit of this is potentially the same as feeding fish their food that has been soaked in commercial fih vitamins. it would be cheaper and a variety would be more regularly accessible to the hobyist.