Quality Tropical Diet

[Uriel]

Most people reccomend you feed your fish a good quality mixed diet based around a good quality tropical flake. But which brands are "good" quality and which should be avoided ?

 

[ZoddyZod]

the foods you feed your fish should primarily be based upon the recommended diet for each of the species you keep. Some fish will simply refuse to eat flake and only touch frozen or live foods.

Generally speaking the greater variety of accepted foods you can feed them, the better. Same as us.

But to answer your question, Tetra and Hikari are generally accepted as good quality. Not sure I'm aware of any 'bad' ones though.

 

[Skins]

the foods you feed your fish should primarily be based upon the recommended diet for each of the species you keep. Some fish will simply refuse to eat flake and only touch frozen or live foods.

Generally speaking the greater variety of accepted foods you can feed them, the better. Same as us.

But to answer your question, Tetra and Hikari are generally accepted as good quality. Not sure I'm aware of any 'bad' ones though.

Tetra and Hikari thats what my fish eat along side nutrafin max spirulina and once week chopped boiled peas.

Keith.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Tetra Prima has a good reputation too.

I noticed that the seller ("beighton aquatics)"where I bought my 3Kg "bucket" a few weeks back has a deal right now, selling these buckets for £54 plus p&p (another £10), which is a cracking deal!

http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/3000g-10-LITRES-TETRA-PRIMA-DISCUS-ANGELS-BARBS-ETC-/350406937982?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item5195e18d7e

 

[Skins]

Tetra Prima has a good reputation too.

I noticed that the seller ("beighton aquatics)"where I bought my 3Kg "bucket" a few weeks back has a deal right now, selling these buckets for £54 plus p&p (another £10), which is a cracking deal!

http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/3000g-10-LITRES-TETRA-PRIMA-DISCUS-ANGELS-BARBS-ETC-/350406937982?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item5195e18d7e

Tetra prima are my fish main diet, good stuff

 

[Uriel]

I was always advise against buying anymore than i could use in 2 months as apparently the food quality deteriates after it has been opened. with things like vitamin quantities dropping.

 

[hensonc4098]

I find that the cheaper kindof "own-brand" flake tends to go a bit mushy and weird whereas the likes of tetra flake hasn't done that. I feed a mixture of flake, granules, tubifex, sinking pellets and this jelly brine shrimp stuff that comes in sachets in a box lol

 

[Bignose]

I was always advise against buying anymore than i could use in 2 months as apparently the food quality deteriates after it has been opened. with things like vitamin quantities dropping.

Unless you are getting your food wet or the food is getting moldy, where are the vitamins going? Some vitamins will react with sunlight, but I doubt you are spreading you food out on a towel on the beach are you? Some vitamins will degrade in heat, but you don't keep your food in the oven, do you? The point is, unless the vitamins are being used or consumed or broken down, where would they go?

If you keep your food dry (if you have wet fingers, don't reach back in for another pinch) and cool and in a dark place, then the food will be fine for at least a year. If is does start to grow mold, then pitch it as the mold will consume the vitamins. But, vitamins don't just waft away.

 

[karin]

Unless you are getting your food wet or the food is getting moldy, where are the vitamins going? Some vitamins will react with sunlight, but I doubt you are spreading you food out on a towel on the beach are you?

Oh no! I always tank my fish food to the beach with me...you mean I shouldn't do that?

 

[Twinklecaz]

Can I butt in with a food question:

Is the risk of parasites from live food a real one or a paranoid one that happens once in a blue moon? and does it still exist with frozen foods?

Thinking of getting some baby brine shrimp but don't want to take the risk if it's more than tiny.

 

[ZoddyZod]

Can I butt in with a food question:

Is the risk of parasites from live food a real one or a paranoid one that happens once in a blue moon? and does it still exist with frozen foods?

Thinking of getting some baby brine shrimp but don't want to take the risk if it's more than tiny.

I think most frozen foods are gamma irradiated to kill off any 'bugs'. I dont know if there are any measures to minimize pathogens within live food though.

 

[Uriel]

I don't really like using the live fish food from my LFS cause i have no idea how long they been in bags or what the water quality is like. I use a lot of frozen foods though and am thinking of starting a Brine shrimp tank of my own.

 

[ZoddyZod]

I don't really like using the live fish food from my LFS cause i have no idea how long they been in bags or what the water quality is like. I use a lot of frozen foods though and am thinking of starting a Brine shrimp tank of my own.

the live food have very little nutritional value so are more of a 'treat' than a staple food. When using you should always discard the water in the bag and not add it to the tank. I simply use a fish net to catch the live food as the water goes down the toilet....

 

[Twinklecaz]

Thanks. I'll try and find the frozen then!

 

[moochy13]

my catfish pellets have a use by date for the end of the month. what will make them 'unsuitable' after this date ?

im pretty sure vitamins do degrade in food, as soon as vegetables are picked, they start to lose their goodness. remember those adverts of birdseye bragging about how they freeze their peas as quickly as possible after picking ? its so they were kept as fresh and good as possible.