Favorite Fish Pellet? [Archive] - MonsterFishKeepers.com

redtailfool

04-28-2005, 11:53 PM

Thats right.. all of you guys that feed pellets to your fish... what is your favorite brand and why?

I like Hikari Cichlid Gold ,Predator Sticks and Kensfish Pellets.. why? They are just better than the other brands. My fish look better and grow fast. Not as fast as feeding shrimp but thats another story. .

neoprodigy

04-29-2005, 12:02 AM

Life Spectrum Thera-A... so far i have gone 5 5lb buckets... they are just that damn good!

beblondie

04-29-2005, 12:07 AM

Hakari sinking carnivore pellets

redtailfool

04-29-2005, 12:31 AM

Life Spectrum Thera-A... so far i have gone 5 5lb buckets... they are just that damn good!

Ive heard so many good things about NLS... but none of my fish eats NLS now.. they all gone market shrimp and dried krill... but i will buy a small bottle and see for myself.

redtailfool

04-29-2005, 12:32 AM

Hakari sinking carnivore pellets

These are good... so good that even rays eat it...

The TRUST

04-29-2005, 1:31 AM

MY favorite is Silver Cup's 9.5mm Floating Trout Pellets.

Why I like it:
It's big! It's fills up my Monster fish and best of all......

It's CHEAP!!!!! 50lb Bag for like $35!

cause we all know feeding Monsters gets expensive!!!!

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WckedMidas

04-29-2005, 2:17 AM

i prefer hikary red and green bags along with there carnivore pellets. but **** cost to much. I been buying bulk trout pellets for 2 or 3 bucks a lbs

piranha45

04-29-2005, 9:29 AM

I buy kensfish.com's floating cichlid pellets or HBH pellets from his website.

I bought hikari gold at the LFS before that. But Kensfish/HBH pellets are WAAAY cheaper than hikari gold, and better too; more protein.

I also use his sinking shrimp pellets periodically, for bottom feeders.

rayman45

04-29-2005, 3:58 PM

dont realy use dry food.
maybe krill,once and a wile.

guppy

04-29-2005, 8:11 PM

I have never used pellets in my life, I am old.

redtailfool

04-29-2005, 11:31 PM

missyb0o

04-29-2005, 11:54 PM

I like the Hikari as well. Bioblend and Azoo isn't bad either.

Steve_89

04-30-2005, 12:09 AM

I like hikari pellets.

redtailfool

04-30-2005, 12:22 AM

Hikari seems to be popular. And it has every right to be... they are good quality pellets.

piranha45

04-30-2005, 12:51 AM

yeah, but if more ppl got word of kensfish pellets, hikari would be outta business

pufferking

04-30-2005, 9:17 AM

What is so great about kens pellets? i hear alot about them

armac

04-30-2005, 9:58 AM

Kensfish pellets and flakes

piranha45

04-30-2005, 10:47 AM

What is so great about kens pellets? i hear alot about them
they're 1/4 the cost of hikari and have more crude protein, other than that they're effectively identical, except your money is going to support a small-time guy in america instead of feeding some huge asian corporation

Caveman

04-30-2005, 11:48 AM

Hikari Cichlid Gold or NLS.

iheartfishies

04-30-2005, 4:16 PM

My fish only eat Bio-Blend and Omega One.

Picky little fawkers.

piranha45

04-30-2005, 4:24 PM

they only eat that cuz thats what theyre acquainted to. my fish have been addicted to 3 pellet brands over the years (wardleys, then hikari gold, then kensfish). You can break the little buggers down to eat whatever you damn well feel like feeding them though, with a week or two of forced starvation. I had a female JD and senegal bichir that took 1 and a half months to switch from Hikari to Kensfish. It pretty much looked like they were going to be stubborn pricks to their very deaths (which would have been fine by me; I dont entertain spoiled fish :P ), but nay, they cracked :)

iheartfishies

04-30-2005, 4:29 PM

I realize that I COULD.
I just can't risk it.
I'd cry if I lost any of my fish.

Dylan

12-18-2008, 9:21 PM

Bump. :)

pwmin

12-19-2008, 4:33 PM

Bump. :):WHOA: 3.5 years old :WHOA:

Joe Fish

12-19-2008, 4:48 PM

I also use Kens I make a mix of floating pellets with sinking and a couple of
different sticks he sells My fish do very well with this

Yabbadoo

12-19-2008, 5:41 PM

LOL......For my crays it's Hikari Crab Cuisine.
Mmmmmm.....Yummy...:popcorn:
Brings their colour up reeeeeeeal nice!!! :thumbsup:

Abgtwo

12-19-2008, 5:52 PM

whats the best type of sinking pellet and sticks from ken i think im going to order some

onlikedonkeykong17

12-19-2008, 5:56 PM

Hakari sinking carnivore pellets

Agreed, my poly's love them.

Joe Fish

12-19-2008, 6:35 PM

whats the best type of sinking pellet and sticks from ken i think im going to order some
I use the 5 stick blend and the slow sinking growth pellets
I also use his earthworm sticks for my snapping turtle

Cichlaholics Anonymous

12-19-2008, 7:41 PM

Hikari seems to be the most popular along with Omega One and NLS

uncwnells

12-19-2008, 7:47 PM

Is hikari the most popular or the most widely available?

IKeepPacu

12-19-2008, 9:26 PM

im another user of kens foods. the 7.5mm floating pellet are absolutely wonderful for large fish. their about the size of a small dog food kibble.

only been using them a month or two, but i already notice a difference in my flowerhorn and pacu mainly over the usual stuff. its nothing dramatic, but my FH shows slightly better reds, and my pacu have a nicer looking silver to them.

IMO it comes down to kens foods using less fillers, which i noticed i have less waste in my bare bottom FH tank.

12 Volt Man

12-19-2008, 9:43 PM

Wardley's shrimp pellets for my big guys..

AMG

12-20-2008, 9:25 PM

Hikari Cichlid Gold for me.

Guapote

12-20-2008, 10:03 PM

Kens Premium Cichlid Pellets.

Fish love it, less poo.

Dan Feller

12-20-2008, 10:13 PM

I have liked Hikari products for years, but my LFS owner introduced me to Omega One pellets from Omega Sea. They're made in Alaska from whole seafood, not by-product.

FSM

12-20-2008, 10:14 PM

sinking shrimp pellets (omega one) seem good.

tcarswell

12-21-2008, 1:42 AM

carnivore pellets and cichlid gold. Im switching to kens after reading this however

Druu

12-21-2008, 2:21 AM

I've done omega one sinking shrimp pellets for my seng. my cichlids get hikari gold and hikari cichid staple. anyone else using hikari staple notice that it gives off a little puff of particles when first dropped into the tank? I've not seen this with hikari gold.

Where can I find loose trout feed? I'd like to get a half or quarter pond to test it out. I can only find 50 lb sacks near me

andro23

12-21-2008, 2:50 AM

I use Hikari: Cichlid Gold, Massivore Delite, Sinking Carnivore, Sinking Gold, Food Sticks and Algae Disks, Micro Wafers

OSI Spirulina Pellets and OSI Freshwater Flakes

Aquarian Shrimp Pellets, HBH Super Soft pellets and Betta Pellets

I also feed my fish random brands of frozen bloodworms, krill and mysis shrimp...as well as fresh seafood and veggies. I use Seachem Nourish as a foodsoak with the fresh foods :)