Fh Food?

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Well there are some flower horn specific foods like Ching mix sumo and hakari. those are "science" based foods which have all the added boosters like breed specific minerals and vitamins, garlic and color inhancers. but also have a large amount of grain, filler and ash in them as well which are really bad for there digestion and over all nutrition. (So its basically like eating mcdonalds as a staple your whole life but also taking a lot of multivitamins so u get all the nessacary nutrition but are still unhealthy and eating crap)

So if you spend hundreds or thousands on a showpiece fish than you dont want these foods as a strict staple. Its best to feed whole foods like talapia, shrimp, salmon, clams, (and other market fish) also mealworms, earthworms, crickets, hakari and sallys frozen foods which are great and weekly veggies pees, zucchini etc. And it's best to soak the food in vitamin supplement.

But if you don't care enough to go through all that hastle than I'd recommend omega one as a staple pellet because based on the ingredients it's nutritionally the best with the least amount of grain and no soy which is extremely important for all living things. Also it names the fish used and it uses alot of different hardy fish instead of fish meal like hakari, cm, sumo.
 
Some people swear by NLS but my fish would rather go a week without food than eat it.
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In order to train a fish, you need to be more stubborn & a bit smarter than the fish that you are training. :) I have trained juvie FH that were raised in Thailand on an exclusive diet of bloodworms, to eat NLS within 10 days or less. After that, I offer no other food, only NLS, and they soon are eating like it's their last meal.


Well there are some flower horn specific foods like Ching mix sumo and hakari. those are "science" based foods which have all the added boosters like breed specific minerals and vitamins, garlic and color inhancers. but also have a large amount of grain, filler and ash in them as well which are really bad for there digestion and over all nutrition. (So its basically like eating mcdonalds as a staple your whole life but also taking a lot of multivitamins so u get all the nessacary nutrition but are still unhealthy and eating crap)

So if you spend hundreds or thousands on a showpiece fish than you dont want these foods as a strict staple. Its best to feed whole foods like talapia, shrimp, salmon, clams, (and other market fish) also mealworms, earthworms, crickets, hakari and sallys frozen foods which are great and weekly veggies pees, zucchini etc. And it's best to soak the food in vitamin supplement.

But if you don't care enough to go through all that hastle than I'd recommend omega one as a staple pellet because based on the ingredients it's nutritionally the best with the least amount of grain and no soy which is extremely important for all living things. Also it names the fish used and it uses alot of different hardy fish instead of fish meal like hakari, cm, sumo. .
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FYI - there is no such thing as a FH specific food that is based on "science". All that exists is a bunch of marketing BS, and consumers that are daft enough to believe some of it. You can feed a FH any brand/formula of cichlid food that you like, and save a LOT of money by doing so, vs shelling out a ridiculous amount of $$$ for the so called FH specialty foods. The only thing special about them is their price. Secondly, the genetics of FH are for the most part derived from CA cichlids that are classified as omnivores, not carnivores, and feeding them high protein foods is NOT something that anyone should be feeding their FH on a regular basis, unless they don't value the long term health of their fish.

Omega is a decent food, but unless you own a magic crystal ball there is absolutely no way that you can state that their foods contain less grain/starch than any other brand of food on the market. They use fish processing waste for their "fish" protein, and listing 10 different species of fish slop doesn't equate to their food containing less starch. Nor does it equate to that protien having a superior amino acid profile, vs one that uses fish meal.


To answer the OP - I feed NLS, exclusively, and have for over a decade.
 
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