Good Floating Pellet For Cichlids

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It also depends on how fast they eat, my Chocolate is an avid surface feeder and usually hunts the other NLS pellets I feed directly from the surface in the few seconds it takes them before they sink. He will snatch them from the water column too, but only once the surface is cleared out.
 
SilverArowBboy15 said:
My best answer to this is porpoise sinking pellets and floating pellets around 180g if not available you can try the standard porpoise food pellets for your fish and just crack them down into small pieces to make sure the fish can swallow and digest it without the fish choking thats the way I feed my monster fish as juveniles in my opinion start feeding the juveniles once a day with high protein pellets to avoid to much waste in the tank. This is only my suggestion if you already have one.
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I’ve never heard of that brand so it was off the interwebs to find it. After looking at the ingredients it’s pretty bad compared to what we have here in the states and the polite, peaceful, and unpretentious natured folks to the north. The ingredient list resembles more of a bulk chow with fillers and starches but also contains soy bean meal, corn, yeast, and wheat germ which is a lot terrestrial based plant matter for a food designed for tropical fish. I don’t know if foods like Northfin or New Life Spectrum are available in Asia but the only reason I’d feed that was if I had no other choice but with said I’d still find a better way.
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I love Aquatic Foods. All kinds of pellets. One of my favorites are the 'worm' pellets. Floating in the water they move like worms. The fish snap them up.

I also get the blackworm or combo pellets. Plus, you get free sample packets with each order. Either pellets or wafers.
 
Roger Mcfish said:
Maybe I can try to break into thirds and try get to eat it here in a few. They'll probably go nuts for it, just gotta make it small enough for their mouths
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I have a small mortar and pestle that gets a lot of use, often on a daily basis, breaking up larger pellets into smaller sizes depending upon the fish being fed. I prefer the particle size to be small enough that the fish can easily swallow without requiring any chewing to reduce it further; this reduces the amount of food waste spreading uneaten into the water column.

Toby_H said:
I was just on Reddit looking for opinions about foods and found this. So note, this is not my chart, I copied it from someone on Reddit...

Fewer points equals better score...

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That's an interesting compendium of data, but I'd be cautious about their conclusions. For example, a food that contains one type of grain/filler gets one negative point on that chart, whereas another food that contains 3 or 4 different types gets those extra negative points, appearing to be a poorer choice...but that doesn't consider the quantities of the various ingredients. What if the 4 fillers together in one food (with all the attendant bad points) account for a smaller total percentage of the overall formula than the single filler in another food? That can be deceptive.

sherlys said:
...Sounds like your fish are already pretty conditioned to surface feeding...Sometimes it’s less about the brand and more about the feeding behavior they’ve developed over time.
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This ^ is a biggie. IMHO, this is one of main benefits of using a variety of different feeds, alternating as much as possible. I almost never feed the same food for two consecutive feedings, and my fish don't seem to develop these habitual preferences for any particular type or size or shape or buoyancy of food. I think that too many fish that seem to be picky are simply habituated to a certain style of food and I try to avoid that. Not only do I think that the variety is more natural, but I don't want to be faced with a tankful of fish that will refuse to eat anything other than Billybob's Bass Bites...and then Billybob stops producing that item and I need to hypnotize those fish into eating something else.

Toby_H said:
When evaluating foods... How much weight should we put on "my fish eagerly eat it" ?

My nephew will choose chocolate cake over any other food offered. And he prefers cold pizza over most other things. But that doesn't mean cold pizza and chocolate cake are a good staple diet.

I'd suggest foods that are eagerly consumed "taste better". I have no idea if our fish have "taste buds" the same way we do, or what qualities a food would have to make it "taste better".

I would suggest we are better off to instead consult the ingredients list and nutritional labels. Select a food that has quality ingredients and provides a balanced diet. Then 'teach' our fish to accept it. Sure stubborn fish may reject the higher quality food for a day or two. But they'll accept the quality stuff before starving themselves. And even the most stubborn fish should be able to be outsmarted with blending foods.
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This ^ absolutely. I always give all my fish two choices at every feeding: take it or leave it. I want them to eat stuff that's actually good for them. I have become a compulsive label reader since joining MFK, and I shudder to think back to the days when almost all my big fish ate a diet that was at least 50% Trout Chow pellets. Nowadays I look at the recipes and formulas carefully before making a choice.

Generally speaking, if the fish don't eat eagerly...then I cut back on their feeding.

My wife bought a can of fish food for me the other day, at my request, but she forgot the list I made for her before she went shopping. So she grabbed an item on sale, something called JBL Novo Granomix Mini. I tend to believe, probably foolishly, that German products are automatically good, but the ingredients list on this container...2400g, that's over five pounds!...is suspiciously vague and non-specific. We shall see...the stuff is a mid- to fast-sinking pelleted food, smells a bit like oddly spiced pizza sauce, composed of round little ball bearings in assorted colours. The fish eat it, but...should I feed it? Hmmmm....

I also ordered online a couple canisters of Northfin Bug Pro, a slightly larger sinking pellet that seems to work well for bottom feeders as well as water-column interceptors. I like this food, buy it locally and usually it has an expiry date 2 years into the future. The online order arrived at the end of April...the expiry date is June of this year! Yet another thing to worry about when buying food remotely. :(
 
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