Flake food

[Fishmanic]

My last flake food I used was Omega One. I found the batch I got to be almost powdery but my fish loved it. When it ran out I bought New Life Spectrum flakes. The flakes are huge and seem more moist than the Omega One flakes.

My fish, especially my black Skirt tetras, are hardly eating any of the flakes even if I break them up into smaller bits and the excess flakes sink to the bottom- potentially causing excess levels including nitrates. Fish are otherwise doing fine.. swimming actively. Yesterday I fed freeze dried bloodworms and they ate every bit of it. I am thinking of throwing out the remainder of the container of NLS.

Has anone else experienced this when using New Life Spectrum flakes?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

My last flake food I used was Omega One. I found the batch I got to be almost powdery but my fish loved it. When it ran out I bought New Life Spectrum flakes. The flakes are huge and seem more moist than the Omega One flakes.

My fish, especially my black Skirt tetras, are hardly eating any of the flakes even if I break them up into smaller bits and the excess flakes sink to the bottom- potentially causing excess levels including nitrates. Fish are otherwise doing fine.. swimming actively. Yesterday I fed freeze dried bloodworms and they ate every bit of it. I am thinking of throwing out the remainder of the container of NLS.

Has anone else experienced this when using New Life Spectrum flakes?

That's a tough one...

If you throw it out, it is a waste of food. But, your fish don't like it. Maybe get some more Omega One flakes and variate feeding? (NLS and then Omega One?)

 

[Byron]

New Life Spectrum is one of the best foods available. Omega One is pretty well equal. There are a couple others I'm not familiar with as they are not locally available. Another good food is Fluval Bug Bites.

Freeze dried food must be thoroughly soaked before putting it in the tank. If fish eat it dry, it absorbs moisture and expands in their stomach, causing problems. I won't even feed it any longer, just not worth it. The prepared flake and bite foods are extremely nutritious.

Bloodworms is also not a food for more than once a week, as a treat. It has problems for fish too; don't ask me what, I can never remember, but I know I learned this from a marine biologist and have seen it repeated elsewhere.

 

[Fishmanic]

I only feed FD bloodworms about once a week and I soak in a small cup of tank water first.
A quality flake food is only good if fish will eat it. If it just sits there and pollutes the tank, it is not good. Your experience with NLS flakes may differ from mine but I wanted to relay my issue with it.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I only feed FD bloodworms about once a week and I soak in a small cup of tank water first.
A quality flake food is only good if fish will eat it. If it just sits there and pollutes the tank, it is not good. Your experience with NLS flakes may differ from mine but I wanted to relay my issue with it.

Thank you for letting use know. I saw some at my LFS the other day and considered buying it. Glad I didn't!

 

[Fishmanic]

Your experience may vary. Maybe I got a bad batch. Most amazon reviews are good but there are some that had a similar experience with it.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Your experience may vary. Maybe I got a bad batch. Most amazon reviews are good but there are some that had a similar experience with it.

I have also heard of people finding bones in their Omega One flakes? I have never experienced that.

 

[Byron]

The fact that one group of fish appear not to eat it does not imply it is not one of the best foods, and most fish will greedily go after it. This is one reason we should feed a variety, so individual fish "tastes" can be ignored. Provided the selections are nutritional obviously. I use NLS once a week, Omega One Veggie Flake once a week, Bug Bites twice a week, and frozen daphnia and bloodworms once a week. Two days are fasts.

And, if fish are hungry, they will eat. Overfeeding fish is widespread, and fish develop finicky tastes as a result.

 

[FishGuest5123]

My last flake food I used was Omega One. I found the batch I got to be almost powdery but my fish loved it. When it ran out I bought New Life Spectrum flakes. The flakes are huge and seem more moist than the Omega One flakes.

My fish, especially my black Skirt tetras, are hardly eating any of the flakes even if I break them up into smaller bits and the excess flakes sink to the bottom- potentially causing excess levels including nitrates. Fish are otherwise doing fine.. swimming actively. Yesterday I fed freeze dried bloodworms and they ate every bit of it. I am thinking of throwing out the remainder of the container of NLS.

Has anone else experienced this when using New Life Spectrum flakes?

I use it but I use the pellets. Goldies and bettas like it. I also feed Omega One flakes. Tetras love them! I may go strictly with the Omega One only for tropicals. My Goldies have been on NLS for 4 years so I hate to change them. NLS has been harder to get and price keeps going up. I have to say, the Omega One has really colored up my tetras nicely.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Tetras love them!

Tell me about it, my Neons LOVE Omega One Tropical Flakes.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Omega One has really colored up my tetras nicely

I also agree with that. My Neons have a super bright color, opposed to most Neons.

 

[Fishmanic]

My tiger barbs in my other tank do eat the NLS flakes so I guess I can buy another brand of flake and feed that to the skirt tetra and finish the container of NLS by continuing to feed it to the tiger barbs. So all is not lost.