flakes or pellets

[Mythic Figment]

The brands I have available:

hikari
Tetra
Aqua one

Which should I buy,I want the best for my fish, money is no object.

If there is a different brand I need to import that's fine just need to know

Currently they get tetra cichlids pellets mixed with hikari gold in the morning, then at 6pm when I get home from work they get a custom mix of beef heart, prawns, brine shrimp and spurilena mashed and frozen.

They also get that mix at,10pm

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With three feeding times a day, I would say they are avoiding the pellets because they don't like them as much and know they can just wait for the next mealtime without being too hungry.


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[Mythic Figment]

The local fish shop told me that tetra color was the best food available which is why I have been buying it!

Is there a better alternative?

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Genuine customer service is dying in America. Many places will recommend anything to you if it makes them a sale. I drive pass two fish stores to get to the store I like because they aren't pushy and will make good recommendations on my setup, fish stock and food needs.


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[Mythic Figment]

Naturally, all granules aren't created equal. It's going to depend on who makes them and what, exactly, is in them. As far as Tetra color (in whatever form) being highly recommended, it's a matter of whether you're talking about the maker's claims-- most fish food products out there claim to be great-- or who is doing the recommendation. Fish food is an area with a LOT of different opinions. I see people with fish food opinions that to me are way, way off, based on my own experience with the same products, but to each their own.

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[tomomothy]

The brands I have available:

hikari
Tetra
Aqua one

Which should I buy,I want the best for my fish, money is no object.

If there is a different brand I need to import that's fine just need to know

Currently they get tetra cichlids pellets mixed with hikari gold in the morning, then at 6pm when I get home from work they get a custom mix of beef heart, prawns, brine shrimp and spurilena mashed and frozen.

They also get that mix at,10pm

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Just do what I do and order it online. Amazon has decent prices for NLS most of the time. If you dont want that my next choice would be hikari, just because I've used it in the past and fish seem to like it, that is to say nothing about how it compares nutritionally to tetra or aqua one since I'm not familiar with them

 

[RD.]

If money is no object, there are plenty of alternatives to what you are feeding that can be found online, in AU. New Life Spectrum would be at the top of my short list.

 

[Bxbull]

Pellets, a lot easier to feed and keep track on the amount of food you're feeding

 

[4D3]

If money is no object, there are plenty of alternatives to what you are feeding that can be found online, in AU. New Life Spectrum would be at the top of my short list.

Ok I'll take a look at the new life stuff.

Why is this one so good?

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[neutrino]

New Life is on my short list also.

Ok I'll take a look at the new life stuff.

Why is this one so good?

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Less starch and grain ingredients than some other popular foods, nice balance of ingredients, garlic in all their products (which has benefits to health and growth). Krill and fish meal (and other aquatic protein sources) are better sources of protein than foods that include a high % of grain/starch/by product (like distillers grain) as protein sources-- my opinion, based on the aquaculture science reading I've done (an example here) and my own food testing. Generally speaking such aquatic sources of protein are going to be better balanced in terms of amino acid profile and digestibility than most of the non-aquatic substitutes.

 

[Vilardz3190]

I did pellets with my larger chiclids. But I would mix some bloodworms, beef heart, and some veggies in their diet so they don't get unhealthy from eating the same thing. My flower horn developed a problem because she was just being fed pellets. Mix it up for the fish to be completely healthy!


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[fishman09]

I did pellets with my larger chiclids. But I would mix some bloodworms, beef heart, and some veggies in their diet so they don't get unhealthy from eating the same thing. My flower horn developed a problem because she was just being fed pellets. Mix it up for the fish to be completely healthy!


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Do you have proof your fh had issues from being fed just pellets?? And do you have any proof that "mixing" it up is healthier???

All these are only fed pellets (NLS)....
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