Experience with New Life Spectrum TheraA Pellets

[doppelbanddwarf]

For those who are not familiar, TheraA is one of the many types of fish food in the New Life Spectrum(NLS) range. It is labelled as a non-medicated anti-parasitic fish food.

A wild young Apistogramma baenschi, commonly known as A.inka, which I got a few months ago was looking rather scrawny and not getting used to Tetrabits. Even after feedings of bbs, which the male took readily, it would look thin. I was thinking that it might be caused by internal parasites.

At the same time after reading good reviews about NLS food both on articles and also fellow hobbyists in this forum, I was thinking of feeding some NLS pellets to my fish. While surfing through NLS's website I saw they had this TheraA pellets which is anti-parasitic. So last Thursday I bought a bottle of NLS TheraA.

At first when I tried feeding the pellets to the Apistos, none recognised it as food and they just picked it up after a few days. The scrawny A.inka male refused to even nibble on it, which was quite expected.

However yesterday morning, I noticed that the male had a full stomach right after feeding NLS TheraA, while before it was looking thin. Therefore it was definitely not bloat. I fed the pellets today again, and had the same result. Never before this, had the male's stomach ever looked full.

I'm not sure whether the Apisto inka male had internal parasites at all, but it seems to be feeding well on NLS pellets, while before this it has only taken live food.

Sorry for the lengthy post, I just would like to share my experience of NLS fish food with fellow hobbyists. I'm in no way related to NLS or any LFSes and this is purely a personal experience. Your results with individual fish might vary.

[PlAnTaNoOb]

Thanks for sharing bro. Think i'll get some of that. My female ram's dull and always hiding, unlike my male who's always full of confidence and shimmering. Where did you get it from?

[yeoyl87]

Seaview and petmart now stocks those NLS products. Do check them out over these two places

[RHX]

Thanks! Sounds like what i need. One of my Inka looks really scrawny, even after feeding. I'll go get one to try it out.

[trident]

chongyu,
I am using Thera A 1mm too. Apistos and Tangayikan cichlids all loves it.
Also have the bigger (2mm) cichlid formula for the bigger fishes.

[illumnae]

just wanted to chip in that i have had very good experience with NLS as well. my fish love it (except the wild bettas which are still on a meat-only diet) and it colours them up very well, which is a testimony of its good contents

[doppelbanddwarf]

Yup YiXiang its after you posted that your Apistos are showing goood colours that I decide to try NLS. And just nice the inka was looking quite thin. So I bought TheraA before I even got the cichlid formula and growth formula from the other forum.

I'm going to get them on the growth formula when the male gets fatter.

[doppelbanddwarf]

Richard, its the trio of inkas i got from the NKS trip with you and the other guys. The dominant female chases it all the time, end up it spends most of its time as a "surface fish". I don't know whether its the female bullying it or because of internal parasites, so i got the TheraA just in case.
At first I was sceptical about what the result would be, but now I'm a believer.

[iwishweallcouldwin]

i would also like to add on that not only are my apistos loving my thera A, so are my cherry, orange and crystal red shrimps, peruvian angels, corydoras napoensis, and various plecos as well.

like the thread starter, I too had a super skinny peruvian angel who refused to eat recently and started isolating himself from the other angels. got me quite worried as mr skinny didn't even react to tubiflex worms or brine shrimps and started to develop a sunken stomach, not to mention that he started becoming very very motionless all day long. but the last few days mr skinny started feeding on thera A as well and i'm glad that he is now back in action with the rest of the pack!

never regretted purchasing the new food!

[doppelbanddwarf]

I noticed the Otocincluses pretending to eat algae right below where I feed the NLS pellets.

[iwishweallcouldwin]

haha yes yes! my otos also love nls! really spoiling them...

[torque6]

Thanks for sharing.

[lyh]

Hi bros. For those who have experience with TheraA, may I know if it helps in bringing out the colour of your apistos?

[doppelbanddwarf]

I'm not too sure about it intensifying colours of the apistos, I THINK that my agassiziis' colours look slightly more intense, but I don't have any photos or anything to compare the before and after. My inkas look the same though. What I'm really impressed with TheraA is that my male inka is looking very healthy, not the least bit scrawny. Also the inka rushes for the pellets, while before they only rushed when its live food.

[lyh]

I'm not too sure about it intensifying colours of the apistos, I THINK that my agassiziis' colours look slightly more intense, but I don't have any photos or anything to compare the before and after. My inkas look the same though. What I'm really impressed with TheraA is that my male inka is looking very healthy, not the least bit scrawny. Also the inka rushes for the pellets, while before they only rushed when its live food.

Thanks for the clarification. It seems that NLS is quite successful in making picky eaters consume. I think I should get one bottle and try.

[illumnae]

I am not sure about TheraA, but i use NLS Cichlid formula, and i do notice a large improvement in apisto colouration after switching to feeding NLS exclusively. given that NLS themselves say that the ingredients are largely the same, i suspect that TheraA will have similar colour enhancing effects.

I'm very satisfied with NLS, and will probably switch exclusively to it for my current 4ft discus tank (and my next 4ft discus project) once my Tetrabits supply runs out

[lyh]

I am not sure about TheraA, but i use NLS Cichlid formula, and i do notice a large improvement in apisto colouration after switching to feeding NLS exclusively. given that NLS themselves say that the ingredients are largely the same, i suspect that TheraA will have similar colour enhancing effects.

I'm very satisfied with NLS, and will probably switch exclusively to it for my current 4ft discus tank (and my next 4ft discus project) once my Tetrabits supply runs out

Since there there so many good reviews about NLS, does anyone notice if it gets your apistos ready for breeding more easily or does water parameter plays a bigger part. If TheraA is similar to the other types wouldn't it be more worthwhile as it helps to bring out the colour yet getting rid of intestinal parasite.

[illumnae]

if there are no intestinal parasites to purge, it would not be more worthwhile than the others would it? i don't find NLS to make any difference in breeding personally...with or without NLS my fish still breed anyway.

[doppelbanddwarf]

Others types are still anti-parasitic since NLS is known to contain quite a large amount of garlic. However TheraA is especially so since it contains an even larger proportion of garlic. So if your fishes don't have internal parasites I don't think there's a need to get TheraA. The other formulas would do.

[lyh]

Thanks for all your valuable input . I think I'll get TheraA for monthly deworming and the other type for regular feeding if budget allows.