Is the new Hikari worth the money?

[Laticauda]

Making gelfood, you can make the pieces as big as you want

 

[Juxtaroberto]

Making gelfood, you can make the pieces as big as you want

I am interested in this. Perhaps you could do a write-up and ask a mod to sticky it?

 

[Laticauda]

I am interested in this. Perhaps you could do a write-up and ask a mod to sticky it?

It's not really an EXACT science. I've done a lot of trial and error. Depending on the type of fish you want to feed, you can change the formulation to meet their needs.

I use canned fishes (mackerel, sardines, anchovies, salmon) and different greens and vegetables. If you have strict carnivores you would use more meaty foods and less of the roughage. Different types of squash, zucchini, kale (a very high vitamin content, I even feed a small amount to my carnivores) mustard/collard/turnip greens. I've even used bell peppers!

I'm lazy, so I buy all the greens and vegetables I'll need for a few batches, and what I don't make in the first batch, I freeze til I'm ready to make a new batch.

Here's a more in depth explanation on a goldfish forum, the only difference is, most of our fish have less vegetables and more MEAT in their diets

http://thegab.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3629

I fed my toadfish some gelfood, and she ate the crap out of it! That recipe was salmon, anchovy, sardine, kale, spinach, bell pepper, spaghetti squash and zucchini.

More recently, I've been shopping at the asian market to buy frozen fishes, and will begin trying to broil/steam the fish and use that instead of the canned fishes, so I can vary their diet more. Tilapia, octopus, pollock, cod...the possibilities are ENDLESS! The only reason I would cook the fish in the gelfood, is to prevent it from spoiling in the fridge before the fish eat it.

 

[pupumole]

hikari does get expensive especially when i try to "powerfeed" my fish WITH good color instead of just whole tons of protein . it just make more sense to feed bigger pellets for bigger fish. i haven't tried those carnisticks because my fish like sinking pellets better. but i do wish that they made even bigger massivores xD 20" dat can take probably a 1" diameter massivore
and i thought massivore was expensive, but man those carnisticks or whatever at $40 /lb ... O_O thats.... better than what most human eat ....

ive tried diy gel food before.... the gelatin builds up in the filter. i dont know if the fish didn't/ wasn't able to digest it or what, but during water change, i notice huge globs of clearish stuff, so i stopped feeding.... its not like it changed the water chemistry though, but those blobs just look suspicious...

 

[Allan01230]

I stick to my NLS

 

[xthao3]

i love how they have pellet trained dats showing how to eat pellets =D

 

[spwd]

Ive not seen this new food over here,has it been out long?
Ive been waiting for this because the only type of pellets my aro likes is the food stick ones but as we only get a 57g bag over here and its usually at least £6 a bag feeding a nearly 22" aro would cost a fortune,it never made sense to me to sell such a small bag and sell it with a silver aro on the front lol
Also the biggest bag of massivore we get over here is 13.4 ounce and cheapest price ive found is £17 so what size do you guys get over there and why cant i get them over here?


Steve

 

[bomber]

We get hikari food here in the US up to 2.2 lbs. I have seen drfostersandsmith sell a 15lb(somewhere around there) bag of hikari food.