So I've heard that the best flake food for fish are the tetra flakes but I've noticed that both my LFS mainly stock fish science flakes, just wondering if anyone has used them and thinks they're any good?
In addition to the foods listed above, adding frozen foods now and then is also good for the fish. They are fresher and more natural, but unless they have been fortified should not be the sole food source.
Flakes are generally not the best. They can cause fish to get bloated. I would get pellets instead. New Life Spectrum, Bug Bites, Hikari, and Omega One are all good brands.
I feed a mixture. I currently have Omega One flakes, Northfin community formula pellets, Northfin kelp wafers, and Northfin bug pro. As I have mainly small fish, they all get crushed up before going in the tank.
This makes interesting reading - it will take longer than usual to load as the page no longer exists so we have to access it via Wayback Machine
Fish Food Ingredients
There are many documents and web sites dedicated to analysis of Dog Foods, Cat Foods, Cattle Feed, and feeds for other live stock. However, when I decided to research the ingredients found in fish foods, I found an absence of information. This article is an attempt to at least partially fill...web.archive.org
I tend to feed half flakes and half one of the other three on rotation each day. On some days I replace the dry food with frozen food. The 4 dry foods I use are not available in shops so I get them on-line. Other members have used Fluval bug bites - these were not available yet when that article was written.
Unlike other members I have never had a problem feeding flake to my fish. The only fish which feed from the actual surface are the gouramis, the rest catch it as it falls or feed off the bottom.
@Darter217 Bear in mind that some of AbbeysDad's recommendations are not available in the UK.
Hi @Essjay I'm going to take you back nearly 3 years here! I was rooting around and found this. The link still works. It's a long read, but there are some things I wanted to highlight on the forum. Do you mind if I cut & paste the most interesting parts onto a thread? I will link in the original link so people can see the whole thing.I feed a mixture. I currently have Omega One flakes, Northfin community formula pellets, Northfin kelp wafers, and Northfin bug pro. As I have mainly small fish, they all get crushed up before going in the tank.
This makes interesting reading - it will take longer than usual to load as the page no longer exists so we have to access it via Wayback Machine
Fish Food Ingredients
There are many documents and web sites dedicated to analysis of Dog Foods, Cat Foods, Cattle Feed, and feeds for other live stock. However, when I decided to research the ingredients found in fish foods, I found an absence of information. This article is an attempt to at least partially fill...web.archive.org