using multivitamins meant for humans

This is a very interesting thread! Great question and interesting advice.

Would people thinking of doing this need to avoid vitamins with certain things? Like would a multivitamin / mineral supplement w/ iron or zinc be bad? Or other things to avoid?
 
terror said:
Hi,

Will it be ok to use multivitamins for human consumption tobe fed to fish?
liek crushing half a tablet of centrum and adding it to fish food?
willthere be any harm ?
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i dont know, but the real question is why bother when there are many high quality fish food readily available for all types of fish and cheaper..
 
The only thing you have to be careful of when repeatedly handling crushed vitamins that dissolve in your porous skin is vitamin A, both of the body cannot get rid of through the kidneys or liver and can easily become toxic in the body if mistakenly taken in excess making the soles of your feet fall off and skin detach and hart stop in your sleep. Some have actually died from loading up on vitamins so be careful with A.
 
As in humans, you do have to be careful not to use too much of any vitamins. If you're feeding a regular, varied, quality diet of commercially prepared fish foods formulated for your specific type of fish there is no need to additionally fortify that food with more vitamins. If your fish is recuperating from an illness and medication routine and has been off of regular food for a while, some vitamins added to something like thawed bloodworms more or less as a boosting tonic is not a bad idea. If a large portion of the food you feed daily is homemade from scratch with ingredients that are generally unfortified, like white fish, hamburger, shrimp, beefheart, then vitamin fortification is not a bad idea for that mix.

Some think that HITH disease in fish is a result of inadequate nutrition, some think it is a water quality issue. Some think it is the end result of an internal parasite infestation. So many things need to be hand-in-hand in order for the fish to thrive and stay healthy. If you feed an inadequate diet but your water is crystal clear....your fish will eventually suffer. If you feed your fish a wonderfully nutritious diet and you keep them in less than acceptable water quality ...your fish will enventually sufffer. And if your fish has a parasite infection that goes untreated....uh huh....your fish will eventually suffer, regardless of quality of food or water. Fresh water changes also replenish the vital mineral content of the water...fish need those minerals and need them to be replenished regularly.

If your going to use additional vitamins for the fish be careful and put some research time into it. Human vitamins are formulated to benefit the human body and really didn't become an important issue until human diets moved away from wholesome foods to be subtituted with processed foods, fast foods and lots of junk foods that do not supply what the body needs to grow and stay healthy.

And for all you centrum takers, go ahead, conduct your own experiment. Drop a tablet in a glass of room temperature water, doesn't have to be 98.6F, for 15 minutes. Go ahead, give in to the temptation. It will be more than 1/2 dissolved within 15 minutes and what remains looks like something the cat gagged up. There's no reading material there!:D
 
lol
that stuff that looks like something the cat hucked up is probably the binding agent of the vitamin.
usually cellulose based and some what water soluble(enzymes and acids do the rest).
;)
 
thanks. unfortunately vitachem is not available here:(
My fish are mainly fed with superworms, frozen shrimps , frozen mussels and frozen fish . They don't accept pellets. last night i tried to feed shrimp dipped in childrens vitamins without zinc and my fish accepted it, today i dipped live superworms , but noticed the superworm died, might have suffocated because of the vitamin syrup being sticky :)
 
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