Anyone grown a large Cichlid ONLY on flakes?

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I don't mean crappy brand-name commercial ones like tetra, but rather quality large Spirulina flakes? Anyone grown out a large fish with this sort of feed without pellets/sticks as the staple?
 
I personally find them to be very messy with larger fish. Seems like alot of it gets wasted in my experience.

I try to use a pellet size that requires very little chewing for my bigger species.


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+1. Pellets seem to leave less uneaten food. My larger cichlids will not give flake food a second look. Its like they don't want to waste their time with it.


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Never thought of this as I would imagine they would break and crumble under the force my fish have when going to eat. Seems like what the person above said, allot of wasted food for my filter.

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Funny story here, I fed flake to my now diseased Chop Stick the Oscar for weeks at a time along with some home grown feeders. I used veggie flake one day the veggie flack gut loaded feeders the next and so on for a week once every month. Feeding flake is def a messy ordeal but nothing some water change action can't handle. Also, wether pellet or flake is dropped into your tank some of their nutrients will always disperse into the water column. The pressing issue of feeding flake for adult fish for life is you would have to buy more of it to stay stocked up so to speak because flake does break down faster than pellets by at least 60-70%. So of course you can do all flake but why not offer the veggie flake in a gelatin mix chopped up together so you lose less nutrient in the water and your fish get to eat more of it. Cool thread bro, can't wait to see the ideas coming out of this one!


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JwHiser13 said:
Funny story here, I fed flake to my now diseased Chop Stick the Oscar for weeks at a time along with some home grown feeders. I used veggie flake one day the veggie flack gut loaded feeders the next and so on for a week once every month. Feeding flake is def a messy ordeal but nothing some water change action can't handle. Also, wether pellet or flake is dropped into your tank some of their nutrients will always disperse into the water column. The pressing issue of feeding flake for adult fish for life is you would have to buy more of it to stay stocked up so to speak because flake does break down faster than pellets by at least 60-70%. So of course you can do all flake but why not offer the veggie flake in a gelatin mix chopped up together so you lose less nutrient in the water and your fish get to eat more of it. Cool thread bro, can't wait to see the ideas coming out of this one!


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SO..... my quality Spirulina flakes should be enough if I can contend with the extra mess they make?

Particularly speaking of my Oscar: he rejects all pellets, period. nothing but pellets for 3.5 weeks, everyone else in the aquarium came to accept pellets, the O didn't eat in front of me once, and noticeably lost weight. I tried 3 different Hikari pellets, NLS, and floating carnivore sticks, and sliced Massivore into an appropriate size for him. everyone especially loved massivore - he ignored it like he did the rest.
 
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