Bulk Food

[Joel]

At one of my LFS there is an area with little bins full of food (flakes) that you scoop into your own bag and pay by the pound. I was wondering what would be more healther, bulk food, or packaged food in the little containers.

Thanks

- Joel

 

[masterfishes]

pre packed....the bulk where u get as much as u want could have lots of contaniments and be quite old for all u know plus people touching it and dust and hair and such

 

[Morrgan]

Any fish flakes lose their vitamins very quickly due to light, air and heat. I haven't seen fish food for sale in bulk around here, but it strikes me as a pretty bad idea.

 

[zig]

Avoid it like the plague stick with the little sealed containers.

 

[freddyk]

Yup, food looses it's nutrition through light and exposure to air. Best off getting a sealed package, and one that won't last too long (no more then a couple of months).

 

[Joel]

Ok, thanks for the help everyone

 

[Angry_Platy]

I bought large containers of fish food once cause they ewre cheapr than the smaller ones and towards the end of the container, all my fish started to get sick.
Suffice it to say I threw out the other one when ot was half empty

 

[Tolak]

I use bulk flake around 1/4 of the time. Variety is best, I rotate between the bulk flake, Omega One flake, a home made mix of 3 different flakes I get online, frozen brine shrimp, blood worms, & beefheart.

Tolak