What Food Do You Use?

[Stoo.]

Just interested really. What brand/type of food do you find best? And for what fish? The flakes I bought from my local shop sink really quickly and I find my pleco totally un-interested in the algea wafers I bought thinking of buying different stuff..

 

[scarlett4410]

I use frozen bloodworms and daphnie as i have dwarf puffers i buy it from pets at home i find it good price and lasts long it costs me £20 a year to feed them

 

[HAMBONE]

I has eight different kinds of food I use.

three different kinds of sinking pellets

two different kinds of flakes

blood worms

tubiflex worms

and frozen brine skrimp..

Only certain tanks get certain foods on any given day.

it's good to mix things up for the fish..

I has eight different kinds of food I use.

three different kinds of sinking pellets

two different kinds of flakes

blood worms

tubiflex worms

and frozen brine skrimp..

Only certain tanks get certain foods on any given day.

it's good to mix things up for the fish..

I gots guppys, cory cats, 1 betta fish ands one angel fish, and various kinds of skrimps in three tanks..

 

[snazy]

For bottom feeders I've tried the tetra and hikari wafers and I found out that the pleco, corys and clowns I have really prefer the hikari wafers. If I drop the hikari and tetra at the same time, almost no fish goes for the tetra ones to the point that I can see tetra wafers still hanging around the tank for a good period of time while the hikari brand wafers disappear quickly. I tried the JBL algae wafers and the pleco has no interest whatsoever, still have a full packet.
I guess if I starve them, they'll eat anything but preference is for the hikari types of food. I am waiting on NLS food now to see how it goes.

My pleco is crazy for cucumber, romaine lettuce, broccoli and mango(I've tried everything else possible including zucchini and he won't touch it)When he was small and kind of timid and the other fish scared him away from the food, I tricked him with romaine lettuce or the hikari sinking wafers for bottom feeders(not the algae ones)Ones he smelled those it took a couple of seconds for him to come out. Now he knows how to get his share(common pleco and growing)

 

[Stoo.]

I was speaking to a guy in my LFS who was saying New Era food is one of the best, so I bought a small tub for the acaras, so do most of you have a range of foods so you're not feeding them the same stuff all the time?

 

[dbanner]

I have a blue thai silk Flowerhorn currently a little under 4 inches in length. Iv feed 2 types of pellet...
1. Hikari gold medium floating cichlid pellets
2. New Life Spectrum medium sinking cichlid pellets
I feed Hikari one week then NLS the next then go back to Hikari and so on. This gives him variety.

I also feed frozen bloodworm, krill or brine shrimp a few times a week and frozen market prawns twice a week. He is growing very well with great colour on this diet.

I used to feed JBL "Flowerhorn" colour enhancing granules and JBL floating cichlid sticks but don't find them as good as Hikari or NLS

 

[Stoo.]

Looks like i need to find some Hikari then.

 

[dbanner]

Looks like i need to find some Hikari then.

 

[Crossfire]

New Life Spectrum +Thera-A
Frozen bloodworms, mysis shrimp, cyclops, daphnia, brine shrimp, watercress, and blanched vegetables.

 

[fish48]

all of my fish are feed daily on live foods i rarely use prepared foods

brineshrip,
eaeth worms,
micro worms,
Grindall worm,
white worm ,
vinegar eel,
Flightless Fruit flys,
i Culture the above foods all year round.

the below foods i collect most of the year round
at the mo there are plenty of glass worm around it's a very good food thet will stay alive in the thank water for a very long time
blood worms,
glass worm,
Water fleas,
Mosquito larvae,

 

[CherryNova]

We feed a variety of flake, Hikari alae wafers (as people have said above our fish to much prefer them to other brands) blood worm (and other frozen foods) and betta pellets. Variety is the spice of life after all?

 

[coolie]

Cheap flake which they don't seem to like much. A mix of dried daphnia and bloodwork. < both these have to be crushed for my small tetras. Then last weekend I started culturing daphnia.

Freudian slip -= that should say "bloodworm".

 

[Stoo.]

Interesting, had't thought of culturing worms/larvae etc. easy enough tp do?

 

[coolie]

Yes, I only just started. It does add more tanks and parphanalia to your setup, but I think it's worth it. With daphnia and a few other types,
you do need to keep two batches in case the population crashes as well, but each one can be as simple as a 3 litre squash bottle with the top chopped off
and an air line bubbling very slowly without an airstone on the end. In winter I will borrow the heat pad from my home brew and stick it underneath.
They eat dissolved dried yeast or algae if you've got more space to make it.

 

[Dazzler666]

As most above, i have a different selection of 12 frozen foods which i swap daily. I also have various flake & cichlid pellets as i think variety is the spice of life for all, including my fish!!
Oh and my plecos incl. L14 sunshine plec get various algae wafers every other day.

I have a blue acara, pair of angel fish, pair of t-bar cichlids now spawning, pair of rainbow cichlids, pair of bolivian rams, pair of kribs also spawning, 10 tiger barbs, lemon & beacon tetras & some harlequin rasboras.
Oh, and in my other tank i have a pair of GBR's, neon & green tetra!!