Zoo-med Foods

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Zoo-med Foods

Post by CrabbyChelle628 » Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:46 pm

I was just looking around last night on the Internet and I found a site that had different bags of Zoo-med food for different species of reptiles. Now normally I know not to feed my hermit crabs different reptiles food, but when I was looking at some of these and looked at the ingredients,it seemed OK. Image


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Re: Zoo-med Foods

Post by CrabbyChelle628 » Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:53 pm

If I only........



Scrolled further down the topics. Someone already asked about the flowers.


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Post by JoeHermits » Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:11 pm

Keep in mind that the salmon meal in the hermit crab food is treated with an antioxidant—either ethoxyquin, BHT, or a tocopherol.

I have not reached out to Zoo Med so I do not know what their suppliers use.


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Post by JoeHermits » Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:23 pm

JoeHermits wrote:Keep in mind that the salmon meal in the hermit crab food is treated with an antioxidant—either ethoxyquin, BHT, or a tocopherol.

I have not reached out to Zoo Med so I do not know what their suppliers use.


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Since the topic came up I took the opportunity to email Zoo Med. We’ll see how they respond.


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Post by Boxraddict » Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:21 pm

JoeHermits wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:23 pm
 Since the topic came up I took the opportunity to email Zoo Med. We’ll see how they respond.


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Re: Zoo-med Foods

Post by CrabbyChelle628 » Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:02 am

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Post by Links » Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:00 pm

I have also heard from other crabbers that if it contains the ingredient fish meal that most companies that make the fish mill put ethoxyquin in it.

Edit: I have been using the turtle flower topper and about to order some zoomed repticalcium
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Post by JoeHermits » Fri Apr 24, 2020 5:21 pm

Zoo Med finally got back to me.

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Looks like the canned food has ethoxyquin. I wouldn’t be surprised if that extended to their other products, as well.


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Post by CrabbyChelle628 » Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:33 pm

I was mainly curious about the flowers. There’s a turtle one and a lizard one that are slightly different


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Post by JoeHermits » Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:57 pm

CrabbyChelle628 wrote:I was mainly curious about the flowers. There’s a turtle one and a lizard one that are slightly different


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Ope, sorry, we got off topic.

All of those flowers are safe. I haven’t seen the other blends but they should be fine, as well.


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