Best food for Corys and Tetras

[BanjoFish]

As their first food I bought King British catfish pellets and Tetra Min flakes.

Are there any others I can consider in the future?

Available on Amazon would be a bonus as I don't have transport.

 

[GaryE]

I can't comment on the British market and brands, but a general principle I stuck with when I used flake was to have 3 types in rotation.

 

[Essjay]

Look for a food which has fillers (wheat flour etc) low in the list of ingredients. Fish meal is not a good ingredient but a named fish meal is better (eg herring meal).
Fluval Bug Bites pellets are a good food but their flake less so.

Some of the better flake I've used over the years isn't easy to come by now in the UK - Omega One, Northfin being 2 examples. New Life Spectrum is still available on Amazon and eBay but only as expensive imports from the US.

 

[BanjoFish]

Look for a food which has fillers (wheat flour etc) low in the list of ingredients. Fish meal is not a good ingredient but a named fish meal is better (eg herring meal).
Fluval Bug Bites pellets are a good food but their flake less so.

Some of the better flake I've used over the years isn't easy to come by now in the UK - Omega One, Northfin being 2 examples. New Life Spectrum is still available on Amazon and eBay but only as expensive imports from the US.

Watching a video on Youtube regarding food the Tetra Mini was regarded as "the McDonalds of the fish food world"

 

[Essjay]

Which just goes to show you shouldn't believe everything to see on YouTube

 

[BanjoFish]

Which just goes to show you shouldn't believe everything to see on YouTube

How donyou view the Tetra Mini flakes ( not that you would personally test them ).

 

[Essjay]

Read the ingredients. Their website says

Fish and fish derivatives, Cereals, Vegetable protein extracts, Yeasts, Oils and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin, Molluscs and crustaceans, Algae,

Fish derivatives often means skins and bones. Cereals are second. Fish can't digest these, they are used as binders to hold the flakes together.


Compare the ingredients to Fluval Bug Bites micro granules (the size suitable for small fish)

Black soldier fly larvae (38%), salmon (20%), fish protein concentrate, peas, potato, wheat, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, calendula, rosemary

It's not that the Tetra ones are bad; if it were me I'd use the pack but when you need more get something better quality.