staple foods?

[BigSchallz70]

sorry i dont know how to do a poll or i would do so and i did not find anything in the search

my question is do most people with tropical fish prefer flake or pellet as the staple diet

are there any bennifits one way or the other

thanks for the replies in advance

 

[LD50]

depends on what your feeding. Little small fish, or fish with little small mouths nothing wrong with a quality flake food as a staple. Big fish with big mouths, go pellet.

 

[BigSchallz70]

Ld50 one of my favorite cd's , I have guppies rams tetras and platties I'm debating between tetra flake or hikari micro pelets

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

I'd go with pellet over flake any day, but if it just small livebearers or growouts nothing wrong with a good brand of flake food

 

[gomezladdams]

Like the others I use a combination of flakes and pellet.About equal except for really big fish,they get mostly pellet.

 

[bob965]

Flakes have a higher surface to volume ratio, possibly allowing water-soluble nutrients to be dissolved in the water before the food can be consumed.

 

[steelshade]

Pellets for me regardless of sized fish there is an appropriately sized pellet.

 

[BigSchallz70]

the only ones i am worried about if i use the micro pelets are my rams they wont even go to the surface to eat they wait for it to float down if it does so would the micro pelets be ok for them also ?