Best Pellet food for male GT?

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I have a male GT Gold saum who has really turned on his appetite the last couple weeks. So I figured while he's pounding the pellets and frozen bloodworms, I should get him the best quality pellet I can. I wana BULK this guy up to the MAX.

What brand would you recommend as top shelf?

I currently feed Hikari Bio-Gold with Hikari Cichlid Staple, But have read here that massivore, new life spectrum and others are better

I have fed earthworms and he loves them but I suspect they may be the cause of a recent bacterial infection that they fought off so none of those for a while.

Thanks in advance:D
 
I have always used Hikari products in my freshwater tanks with great success. The only experience that I have had with new life spectrum foods was with my 90 gallon saltwater tank that was heavily stocked with large fish. The fish store promoted this food as being the best on the market. I used it for about two weeks and switched back to Ocean nutrition foods because the new life spectrum foods seemed to be less appealing to the fish overall. I know this is not a saltwater forum but maybe that will help some.
 
I use Hikari, one of my bro's uses New Life Spectrum, good stuff either way IMO. I also feed him algae disks once in awhile, he pounds them big time, I get the smaller one's made by TopFin (Petsmart).
 
I use both Hikari (Cichlid Gold and Biogold) and New Life Spectrum cichlid pellets (the ones that float). My cichlids eat both, but they seem to eat the NLS more voraciously. I also add some krill from time to time.
 
Headrush;1343732; said:
I have a male GT Gold saum who has really turned on his appetite the last couple weeks. So I figured while he's pounding the pellets and frozen bloodworms, I should get him the best quality pellet I can. I wana BULK this guy up to the MAX.

What brand would you recommend as top shelf?

I currently feed Hikari Bio-Gold with Hikari Cichlid Staple, But have read here that massivore, new life spectrum and others are better

I have fed earthworms and he loves them but I suspect they may be the cause of a recent bacterial infection that they fought off so none of those for a while.

Thanks in advance:D
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Seems like you've got it pretty well covered.

A really good quality food should have a lot of seafood high up the ingredient list, with the fillers low down.

Hikari Cichlid Gold
Ingredients: fish meal, flaked corn, wheat flour, gluten meal, brewer's dried yeast, starch, enzyme, garlic, astaxantin, DL-methionine, monosodium glutamate, vitamins and minerals including stabilized vitamin C
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Everyone loves Hikari (I feed it myself) but the fish cannont digest the flaked corn and the wheat flour, the second and third most ingredients. The stabilized vitamin C is great though.

I like Hikari Bio-gold, as wheat flour is the 4th ingredient and it doesn't contain any corn. Their ingredient list on the Hikari website and on my package aren't the same though....odd.

Massivore Delite
fish meal, krill meal, starch, wheat flour, dried seaweed meal, brewer's dried yeast, dried A. niger fermentation extract, astaxanthin, canthaxanthin, vitamins and minerals
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Massivore delite has wheat flour as the number 4 ingredient as well, with some good seafoods.

New Life Spectrum
Krill, Herring, Wheat flour, Squid, Algae Meal, Soybean Isolate, Spirulina, Beta carotene, Garlic, Vitamins and trace elements
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NLS appears to be a great quality food. I need to go pick some up and try it out methinks.

If you really want good growth boost the temp a bit (82-84) and do daily water changes. I feed live food (crayfish, earthworms, meal worms, insects) for really good growth.

Probably too much info, but there ya go.

If you want to read up on fish nutrition, I found this on the NLS website.

http://nlsfishfood.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=63&limit=1&limitstart=0
 
hikari massivore deilte, its amazing, they love it
 
Thanks everyone!

Believe it or not the GT is finicky! He spits out Krill wheter its frozen or freeze dried. I tried feeding him silk worms last night spit that out too, but the JD grabs em haha. Pretty much ignores frozen brine shrimp too. Weird!

I'd like to get more veggies in his diet so I might try some peas

In those pellet food ingredients it seems as though the corn and wheat would serve as the roughage? Would this replace the vegetables in their diet? Sounds too simple to me

Gues I'll stick to what works. I just feed him when he begs and don't overfeed to keep his water clean

Feel free to offer more suggestions though.

Thanks!:headbang2
 
The corn and wheat are the binding agent. All they do is keep the pellet from dissolving while it's in the water.
 
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