Thanks for the detailed post Buccal. I mainly keep male peacocks and haps and not really planning on breeding them. But just as a thought some of my peacocks have coloured down since i have purchased them a month ago so obviously they have been feeding with this absolute food. So this white crane food your talking about is that another name for this product? Found info on whats in this food. Crude protein 54% Phosphorus 1.5% vitamin E 200mg?kg Crude fat 14.5% Lysin 3.6% Methionin 1.5% Crude fibre 0.5% Vitamin C 300mg/kg Ash 8.6% Vitamin A 22500 copper 5mg/kg Calcium 1.7% vitamin d3 Selenium 0.4mg/kg Got alot of ingredients in the food. So you think maybe a once a week feeding of this food would be alright with the nls just to bring out colours, but if you feed just this food it could be harmful for the fishes and the fish could have a shorter life span?