feeding fish with multivitamins meant for humans

Be careful with anything that has iron in it. A preson can OD on Fe. I had a friend do it once when he was a kid. Flintstones vitamins with Iron and a child who is smart enough to get off a childproof lid but not smart enough to not eat the yummy vitamins equals a stomach pumping. Yuck.
 
I wouldn't. Most of the vitamins intended for human consumption have a very poor solubility, and very little is absorbed in the human digestive process. With the difference between our metabolism and a fishes, I'd suspect that you'd either a) see less absorption, meaning no benefit seen, or b) hugely increased absorption, increasing potential for OD'ing on what should be a trace portion of their diet.

There are a number of vitamin soaks available for fish--I'd stick with them.
 
I use liquid centrum soaked into fish food, I have never tried dry vitamins, and don't know that it would work, even ground up. I am a firm believer that nutrution or lack thereof is the major factor in HITH, and feed my Oscars and everything else in the tank vitamins twice a week. I got the idea from this article:
http://www.aquasource.org/CMS/modul...ns&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=48&page=1
There are conflicting opinions, but generally they are addressing overuse of vitamins or the fact that a good varied diet can and will eliminate a "need" for vitamin supplements. I would not reccomend daily use except in a case like HITH, and don't use a lot of vitmins, but do supplement fairly regularly.
HTH
Dave
 
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I tried dissolving some vitamins and soaking it in food when my oscar had HITH, but he didn't like it and just spat it back out.


OrionGirl said:
I wouldn't. Most of the vitamins intended for human consumption have a very poor solubility, and very little is absorbed in the human digestive process. With the difference between our metabolism and a fishes, I'd suspect that you'd either a) see less absorption, meaning no benefit seen, or b) hugely increased absorption, increasing potential for OD'ing on what should be a trace portion of their diet.

There are a number of vitamin soaks available for fish--I'd stick with them.
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Actually OG, there is a company called USANA who makes vitamins designed to completely dissolve within 22 minutes. I've been using one of their many different vitamins(my brother works for them, and i will be soon :D) and I can tell a difference between it and other vitamins. Maybe if I had USANA's vitamins earlier my oscar would have liked it.
 
My husband started putting baby vitamin drops on our box turtles' food. They just keep improving weekly. On the other hand, fish are not turtles. But baby vitamin drops are lower doses, lower iron than adult or even childrens vites. Just a thought.
 
I'd be carefull, my grandfather killed his cat feeding it human vitamines.
Yes..I know a cat isn't a fish :D , but the point being that what is ok for human consumption isn't necessarily safe for animals.
 
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