Pellets [Japan]Should I change or keep the pellets they have?

Those are pretty high in calcium. I'd switch to the Oxbow. Just switch them cold turkey -- they'll either eat them or they won't.

From what I can make out (by pasting the image into a program that turns it into just the writing and then pasting that text into google translate - which I'm sure you are aware isn't entirely reliable), nothing jumps out at me as particularly bad. Have a read of this page and see if any of the ingredients that are listed as things to avoid are included in these pellets, https://www.guinealynx.info/pellets.html

If nothing on that avoid list is in them, and they don't contain limestone or calcium carbonate as an ingredient then they may not be all that bad. Is that the min or max amount of calcium? Even oxbow lists a max calcium of 0.85%, though oxbow does have a min calcium of 0.35%.

Also the phosphorus levels in these pellets are 0.4% correct? If so that is a calcium to phosphorus ratio of 2:1 which is okay.

0.8% "or higher" calcium from what I can tell. I'm a little rusty though, ha.

I believe it is up to 0.8%. I will compare the two and see.

It would be better if I could use the Japanese brand because they carry it in more stores. Oxbow is only in one store in the city.

Soecara said:

From what I can make out (by pasting the image into a program that turns it into just the writing and then pasting that text into google translate - which I'm sure you are aware isn't entirely reliable), nothing jumps out at me as particularly bad.

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You are SO clever and resourceful! What program are you referring to in the first instance?

spy9doc said:

You are SO clever and resourceful! What program are you referring to in the first instance?

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An Optical Character Recognition program, there are free ones online you can use if you google "image to text" or there are programs you can purchase and have on your computer itself. Some are a little more reliable than others, but if you just compare the text it produces to the text you can see on the image you can compare how accurate it is/isn't.

Soecara said:

An Optical Character Recognition program

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Of course........I knew that! (slaps self on forehead) I have used the OCR function in the past, but didn't even think of it in this instance. Thanks for enlightening me!