Fish food for your planted tank fishes

[gonjinn]

I used to feed my angels with live food (tubiflex and blood worms) but tend to they fall sick, probably due to parasites and bacteria. So now I stick to pallets, specifically tetrabits.

[zyblack]

I stumbled upon a few good stuff and will like to recommend here.

1) Hikari Saki-Hikari Fancy Goldfish (Purple Pack)

Sinking pellets added with colour-enhancing ingredients like Astaxanthin and Spirulina along with Probiotic (Hikari-Germ) which is something similar to what you get from Yakult and Vitagen. Probiotic helps in aiding digestion and recondition fish waste for easier filter maintainence. Come loaded with all the necessary vitamins and minerals for overall health conditioning.

I know it is meant for goldfish but in actual fact most Hikari products contain the same ingredients except for a few special stuff here and there. These pellets have all the good stuff plus Probiotics which I don't see in other products. The pellets are relatively small in size and can fit into the mouth of most fish except maybe smaller tetras or frys. What I do is take a small portion out of the zip-lock bag and ground it into finer powder or smaller pellets with a pestle and mortar. I use this to feed all my fishes including frys.

2) Tropical Spirulina Super Forte (36% Pure Spirulina)

Think it is the fish flake with the highest spirulina content (36%) around in market. Feeding this initially to my herbivorous Lake Malawi cichlids but seems to enjoyed by all the fish in my community tank so I treat it as a general fish flake for all. Value for money too since I use to get Hikari Tropical Flake weighing 20g costing almost 5 bucks while this one is a whooping 55g for 11 bucks. Even at the high rate of feeding I am going, 1 bottle can easily last me 2-3 months.

Note though, spirulina products have a rather short life span once exposed to moisture so best is taking maybe 1/4 of flakes out to put in a separate container for feeding while the rest is in the original container kept a cool dry place and don't open it too often.

[aquarius]

Noticed that alot of people here feed hikari food. Should include it as one of the food in the polls. Frankly hikari fish food is of very high quality and i particularly like that they are packaged in zip-lock packs which is excellent cos it can be kept for a longer period of time while maintaining it's freshness. Right now i use the hikari zip-lock packs to store my New Life Spectrum food for daily feedings so i won't have to open the main container daily.

[aquanatix]

Haven't tried hikari freeze dried tubifex before though i realize all fishes love tubifex as compared to bloodworms somehow.Anyone here realize this?
Been using tetrabits for my fauna,one of my staples for discus.I figured,if it did well for my discus my other fauna should do the same!Problem is i have to maunally grind the bits down to powder form to make my smaller fishes like brigatte etc happy since the bits are still considered too large! Best part is that it sinks as well,hence my corys and shrimps all get to feed on tetrabits!

[oblivion]

i use sera FD tubifex and bloodworms
different brand but same stuff la
and yeah you are right, the fishes go crazy over the tubifex but not so keen on bloodworms

[Panut]

is ADA AP Gold series a good food for fishes?

[stormchild]

Just a personal observation:
I don't get the brilliant colours off my rams when i feed them Hikari. But New Life Spectrum really brings out the colours.

I think fishes are generally healthier if fed a variety of food. Algae wafers, pellets, frozen worms makes a fish happy. How would you feel if you were to eat only McDonalds everyday?? (yup. i watched Super Size Me last night. )

[Panut]

Will new Life spectrum shorten the fish's life? If you know what i mean..

[illumnae]

as i told you before, no it won't. growth and colour hormones are not used in the making of this food.

[Puffer]

After the rave reviews of NLS food, I got a can each of the Small Fish Formula and the H2O Stable Wafers. My cardinal tetras, being already fussy eaters, hardly touch the Small Fish Formula, same for my adult ram. Only the very young rams and microrasboras love it (even my ram fry love the crushed bits). I also see that the plecos and shrimps love the Wafers.

[Morgan01]

my fish food seems to produce a thin layer of oil flim on surface. hikari pellets is what i m using. not overfeeding though. any advice?

[d2sign]

After the rave reviews of NLS food, I got a can each of the Small Fish Formula and the H2O Stable Wafers. My cardinal tetras, being already fussy eaters, hardly touch the Small Fish Formula, same for my adult ram. Only the very young rams and microrasboras love it (even my ram fry love the crushed bits). I also see that the plecos and shrimps love the Wafers.

Weird. I'm feeding NLS small fish formula for my cardinal tetra, harlequin rasbora, trigonostigma espei and penguin tetra, all adult size and they chase like mad. My 3ft planted tank have a strong current flow, maybe they exercise too much and hungry easilly, haha.

[Joseph*]

my fish food seems to produce a thin layer of oil flim on surface. hikari pellets is what i m using. not overfeeding though. any advice?

or maybe the oil film is caused by the plants?

I think I read somewhere here before that photosynthesis process can create an oil film. That's why most of them have a surface skimmer to get rid of the film.

Do correct me if I'm wrong please.

[hd3]

Hi,

A film of oil do appear in my nana only tank...been using han-on skimmer filter to clear it.

Cheers

[Shaihulud]

I mostly feed with Hikari carnivore pellet and algae wafer, carnivore pellets do stink up the water alot though...and the tank is in my room.

[acc]

The discus in my planted tank love Tetra flakes and Hikari discus sticks. They are less excited over Hikari frozen food and Hikari freeze dried tubifex.