What Are The Best Tropical Fish Flakes?

[Rafael Dilone]

I recently ran out of my fish flakes and want to know what are the best ones i can possibly purchase since i am stopping by my local pet store tomorrow. I also feed my fishes Hikari micro wafers and Hikari micro pellets and they love it. I would get Hikari Tropical flakes but i do not know any stores that carry them or online stores. If someone can actually find me a fish store in New York City that carries the Hikari flakes that would be great. So i am wondering which flakes do you guys think is best to buy for tropical fishes from your experiences.

 

[Arktica]

I Don't know where you live or what fish you stock but this might help

http/www.aquatics-online.co.uk/catalogue/hikari-fish-foods.asp (they say they will stock the tropical flakes as requested)
It not much but i hope it helps

 

[bitteraspects]

as fart as flakes go, i really only use tetra-min pro tropical crisps. usually i just stick to pellets.

 

[Gurglar]

I use tetracolor fish have been on it since i've had them and hasn't gone wrong.

 

[OohFeeshy]

There's not really much difference between flakes, I've never seen anything that confirms all the claims the manufacturers put on the packet.

 

[MHunt]

as fart as flakes go, i really only use tetra-min pro tropical crisps. usually i just stick to pellets.

I know cory's get wind sometimes but I didn't think we we're looking for that kind of effect from our fish food!

I use TetraMin crisps they work for all my fish. Hikari are generally good food too so I'm sure their flake would be good too.

 

[foley69]

JBL flakes are probably the best on the market for nutrition but thbh the best staple for majority of fish would be JBL granomix its a fine grained pellet that covers all of the tank some float some sink slowly and some go straight to the bottom best all rounder IMO

 

[Rafael Dilone]

Thanks for your suggestions guys. Today when i go to my LFS i will look around everything they have. I will probably go with tetra flakes at this point since i cant find hikari.

 

[OldMan47]

A lot depends on where you are. In the US, I like the foods offered by Kens and by Floridaguppiesplus. I am sure there are also decent foods at the LFS, but these guys supply whatever you are looking for and you can specify which kinds of foods you want, not just some generic food for any old fish. As an example a molly and a tetra need very different food so a general purpose food is inadequate for almost any fish. If you have a fish that needs a meaty diet, the flake that I feed my mollies would be totally inappropriate and vice versa.