Evidence of NLS superiority?

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Water said:
Micropellets for a 4" fish? Try 1mm pellets. As for it gunking up in your filter, I'm still very much convinced that your FH is not eating all of it, but rather expelling it from his gills. I fed a tank full of FH fry 1mm pellets(The fry ranged from 2"-3"), didn't have any build up from the food at all in my filters. As for Hikari being harder than NLS pellets? I don't think so lol. I crush the Hikari pellets(The really big ones, I forget the size but much bigger than 3mm) in my fingers with ease.. I have to use a pestle and mortar to break down NLS pellets..
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Crush with ease eh? what are you?? the Hulk? If it's that soft you might want to start keeping your food in containers.
 
I, too, regularly crush up Hikari pellets in my fingers--something I could never do with NLS.

This thread is beginning to enter that "needs-to-be-closed" area that I was afraid of a few pages back. We all think you're feeding your FH pellets that are way too big for it and could benefit from a smaller pellet, like a 1mm. If you've already done this, then just feed whatever high quality pellet the fish will eat without being detrimental to your filter. It's not going to make NLS any worse for the people who love it and swear by it. Not every product satisfies every customer--to each his own.
 
My Festae can swallow NLS 3mm pellets by the mouthful. :headbang2
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I bet they can. lol


mshill, I have no problem with people expressing an opinion, but when that opinion flies in the face of the experience of the vast majority of fish keepers on this forum that use this same food for their fish, including close to a decade for myself, what would you expect me to think or say? It's not that I don't realize that a 4" fish can eat a 3mm pellet, it's just that with a 4" flowerhorn a 3mm NLS pellet will definitely be too big, and hard, and will cause the fish to chew. Excess chewing causes excess waste, it's a simple as that.

I was attempting to help you, not discourage you from expressing your opinion.
 
My larger Uaru's just recently decided to stop eating the NLS I feed them. No reason at all, they just ignore it now. They were even raised on NLS from 1.5". They will literally eat anything else I put in the tank. I dont get it.
 
lk i know this doesnt contribute to the thread but did anyone else notice mfk went down for a day
 
mshill90 said:
. I was doing 3 pellets a day for my FH, and it would still gunk up.
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Mshill, I know you're a very experienced fishkeeper and usually never doubt anything you say. But a filter gunking up from only three 3mm pellets daily doesn't add up. There must have been something else in the equation.
 
Geeze Balton, why is it that with you and many others always think that someones EXPERIENCE is always WRONG?

Sorry, just had to get that off of my chest. :ROFL:


I doubt a lot of what I read on these forums, sometimes you just have to call BS when you see it, and let it go.



BTW mshill ..

And I found that the NLS I bought was extremely fresh, and it was actually more like a clay texture. So it wasn't all that hard. I find my Hikari to be harder.
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There are no NLS formulas that are like clay, not even remotely close. NLS pellets have a low inclusion rate of moisture to the point that many fish will initially reject them due to how hard they are. If your food was as soft as clay, there can only be two reasons.

1. it wasn't actually NLS food in your container
2. at some point moisture got into that food

All NLS formulas are quite hard, much harder than any other pellet on the market.
 
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