datnoid on pellet diet?

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SpeshulEd;4294875; said:
really? Have you looked at the back of a bag of massivore or nls?

Do some research.
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Yeah, the second ingredient on the back on hikari is "Wheat Flour". Hmm.

Don't treat NLS and hikari like the same product, anyone with a knowledge of fish nutrition & requirements know they are not. NLS is a great food but I prefer to feed market foods with Seachem Nourish supplements because of price. Hikari has wheat filler and other stuff i don't want in my datnoids diet, go figure I don't spend the extra money to feed it to them.
 
I'm not treating them like they're the same product, I'm saying both are good staples for any fish. I feed both along with market foods. Based on the size of my fish and their temperament, I'd say they're healthy.

To each their own, but I say pellets have their benefits and it certainly doesn't hurt to get your fish to eat them. For example, when you get home at 5:30 and have a business dinner at 6:15 and you need to feed two dogs and 25+ fish, it's a helluva lot easier to toss in a handful of pellets than to cut up tilapia, shrimp, etc.
 
SpeshulEd;4295061; said:
To each their own, but I say pellets have their benefits and it certainly doesn't hurt to get your fish to eat them. For example, when you get home at 5:30 and have a business dinner at 6:15 and you need to feed two dogs and 25+ fish, it's a helluva lot easier to toss in a handful of pellets than to cut up tilapia, shrimp, etc.
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I get the tilapia, shrimp etc from market, cut it up and freeze when i get home, then just grab a chunk and toss it in when feeding. Or I used to do DIY foods (which I plan to start doing here soon) and just blended a bunch of ingredients and then added nutrtional supplement and froze in an ice tray. Just grab the ice tray, pop out and toss in.

I just am partial to market/frozen foods because of cost, routine stops to the lfs (or internet orders) of hikari/nls/whatever can get pricey, and because with pellets you get what they put in, and thats not always what im lookin for

Yup. :)
 
BlackShark11k;4278203; said:
i never used process food... my dat diet consist of shrimp, tilapia, krill and bloodworm. pellets often have lots of wheat filler... or not the protein content i want.
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Most raw shrimp and talapia only comes out to be 15-20% protein compared to most of these new pellets at around 35-50%. I understand not wanting to feed fillers, but I have had nothing but improvement in my fishes eating pellets. I feed Hikari and NLS. What ever I can get on sale.
 
I tried to feed my dats Hikari Cichlid excel, but this is a floating pellet :(
will try to get some good sinking pellets for them .
 
Surprisingly my 3 2inch dats took to pellets eagerly while i was weening them off of fd krill. I feed them Hikari arrow sticks broken in half. The loaches and bgk in ths same growout tank feed off massivore on the bottom. The FH, GT, O, Pbass and rays are all on massivore, OSI shrimp pellets and the ocational treat of MS and tilapia in the 180g.
 
My 2" IT gets fed either tetra colorbits or crushed massivore(more of the massivore though) and my 5" NGT gets 2-3 half inch pieces of shrimp or talapia stuffed with half of a massivore pellet. The little IT will also grab a piece of the shrimp or tilapia that I dice up for my pleco and bichirs.
Nothing wrong with feeding them mainly pellets. A varied diet is what you truely want though, and you can accomplish it by feeding a mixture of pellets and meats, or just different kinds of pellets.
 
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