If NLS and NF are the best, then what is 3rd best?

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Most nutritional posts tend to end with NLS and NF on top. Assuming that is true, what then would be 3rd best?

this not just an academic question, as some fish keepers add other pellets to provide diversity in the gut.
So what do you say?
 
Fluval Bug Bites are pretty decent. In my opinion, the absolute best foods are frozen and/or safely harvested or propagated live foods, which is what I often feed my fish; I think some people are deterred from this option due to the potential cost and maintenance, though.
Food discussions on this forum are very complicated from my limited perspective; you'll probably get many different answers with different explanations for each.
 
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JackEmerson said:
do you add anything to the gel, or just straight up repashy?
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thats one of the coolest things about the gel- you can add stuff into it, make it thin or thick etc even can have it applied to a rock and dried onto rock and drop it in the tank and let the fish work on it. Even add bugs from outside etc

i like how flexible this stuff can be for me to modify to my individual fish needs
 
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Hikari FROZEN FOODS are top of the pyramid IMO.

Repashy and Fluval Bug Bites (except for herbivores, of course) are up there on my top four foods along with NLS and Northfin. These four foods are 99% of my food rotation for all of my fish - I have various formulas for each type.

Upper mid grade for me is Omega One. Not nearly as good as the previous four, but still quite good as a mid-grade option.

For commercially available foods in Canada (USA might have some other options I'm not familiar with), these are the ONLY foods I will feed my fish.

Anything else - *cough* Hikari pellets of ANY kind *cough* are garbage.
 
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aussieman57 said:
When you have NLS & North Fin foods what would be the point of looking for something not as good?
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sometimes fish refuse NLS (and sometimes NF). So in that case what additional food would you mix if they refuse NLS or NF? I think it is a good idea to feed more then one brand.
 
When live blackworms where easily available for me. That would be my staple food. I would buy a pound at a time and it would last me 2 months.Then frozen mysis pellets and mosquito larvae occasionally. I find feeding them live blackworms and other live foods brought out the best of them. And live food was so much cleaner. I know many people don't like live foods like blackworms and such. But I've been feeding it for 15 years and never had a problem.
 
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JackEmerson said:
sometimes fish refuse NLS (and sometimes NF). So in that case what additional food would you mix if they refuse NLS or NF? I think it is a good idea to feed more then one brand.
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Fast them for a few days, and they'll change their tune. Better than swapping out for a crappy food just because they turn their nose up initially. I'd take a burger over chicken and veg every day too if I could, but I know eating crap day in and day out isn't good for me. Fish don't know that, so it's on you to feed them responsibly.
 
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