bugs in fish food

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so i was just feeding my fish Seachem flakes and the texture of the flake seemed off to me, it must be that it got humid. I didn't mind this much but something else caught my eye.. the flakes fell kind of rough (not sure how else can i describe this) and had a lot of white dots which was very odd in this flake food. So I started messing with the flakes and found a bunch of white little bugs that looked like white fleas moving around, then looked at the food lid and had a bunch of these critters moving around, i was disgusted by it but already dipped my fingers in it so what the heck.

anyway I know fish eat bugs but still didn't like the idea that i fed my fish contaminated food. Also tried taking a picture of these bugs but it is impossible.


see the white pixels in the picture? ?

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I'd toss it and get new. Stay to smaller cans with a tighter lid. Inspect the new can to see if it's similar.
 

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I think I would feed it to my fish, free natural protein, pretty safe source IMOP.
decided to get new food for them. The fish at shore looked like they enjoyed their buggy flake though
 
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