Frozen food vs dry food?

[ss720]

Lately I've been using a lot of frozen food such as bloodworms and artemia.

I'm considering reducing it or replacing it with perhaps dry food.

The reason being I'm suspecting the frozen food to be the source of small particles in the water.

I'm curious to know if there is a certain type of frozen food or dry food that don't pollute the water to the same extent.

It's mostly meant for community fishes like tetras, dwarf cichlids and angels.

Any ideas?


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[convict360]

I'd just go with flake. I tried dried bloodworm etc, looks weird and messy; may or may not be true but also heard reports of impaction with dried food.

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[tlindsey]

frozen brine shrimp is not a good staple food item, imo frozen mysis shrimp has more protein. Pelllet should be part of the menu as for the cichlids I personally use different brands , but mainly feed NLS.

 

[ss720]

I have some granules I'd prefer to use, meant for small cichlids, and I'd add some larger pellets when the angels are adult.

But my tetras doesn't seem to eat the granules, I also have flake, I'll try to use granules and flakes now, and maybe treat them with blood worms once a week.

Thanks for the replys, I didn't know that those frozen foods I have shouldn't be a regular thing.
I appreciate the info.


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[sunfishh]

In order to avoid polluting their tanks many aquarist defrost frozen food in a glass and then dump the water in the sink while catching the food in a net. As far a type of food goes remember variety is the spice of life.


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