Best pellets for my baby giant gourami

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Rocksor said:
Make your own food with agar fish recipes. That will be cheaper for you in the long run.

The main take away for ingredients (this is an all around generalization):

  1. only 1 starch mentioned, e.g. wheat or potato as a binder (Look at Northfin and New Life Spectrum ingredients as an example)
  2. no to corn
  3. no to soy (cause inflammation of the intestines in some fish)
  4. no to pea protein (missing full pea and used to cheaply increase protein content, okay for fish destined as food)
  5. first ingredient should not be a starch (some manufacturers split the ingredient into multiple parts to provide the illusion of it being lower on the ingredient list, for example having pea fiber and pea protein would put pea ingredient lower on the list because it's been separated)

If there are no food that meets the criteria above, then try to find food that meets as much above as possible. If that's not possible, then just try different brands and do not overfeed. A 12" fish does not need to eat every day, unless it's a herbivore eating detritus from the substrate and algae off of rocks. With pellet fed 12" fish, you can go to every other day or every 3 days because pellets tend to have a meat based protein like fish meal.

Recommendations will be hard if you cannot provide us with what brands you can buy, and what types from those brands.

brand: Hikari
Type: excel
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Hikari, Tetra, Taiyo, Tropical and Ocean Nutrition are the ones that are quite readily available
 
Capten_Munch said:
Hikari, Tetra, Taiyo, Tropical and Ocean Nutrition are the ones that are quite readily available
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I avoid Tropical and Ocean Nutrition due to their line containing soy, which is not needed for my fish. I only use Hikari Discus bio-gold for small fish, and I used to use Hikari Bio-gold 10 years ago, but switched to NLS and Northfin.

Out of those brands, I would stick to Hikari Bio-gold and Taiyo.
 
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