what are good food brands?

[sc2dave]

what are good food brands? Which ones to stay away from,which are a better bargain,overpriced,etc.... POST IT!!

 

[Brian_Indiana]

I use New Life Spectrum, Omega One, and Haraki.

I get NLS from Pharaoh on here, Haraki from online vendors, and Omega One from LFS. My fish love it all.

 

[GhostShrimpMan]

Hikari is great, I haven't tried NLS though.

 

[Loves severums]

New Life Spectrum,Hikari

 

[Keasarge]

hikari are the best imo, all my fish take them never had any problems always excellnt quality fish put on weight well
im not a huge fan of nutrafin most of my fish refuse them unless they are starving and its like 60% earthworms

 

[GhostShrimpMan]

I heard Wardley was not too good either.

 

[Burtess]

From an old post that has good relevance to this thread:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119654

Of course, a food that your fish don't eat is a "worthless" food. But there are foods that your fish will eat that are "worthless" as well, from a nutritional standpoint.

For any food that I consider, I look at the first few ingredients. What are they?

Check out the first 5 ingredients in these:

Good food:

Omega One Cichlid Pellets - whole salmon, whole herring, whole shrimp, wheat flour, wheat glutten...

Omega One Super Veggie Kelp Pellets - whole kelp, spirulina, whole salmon, halibut, seafood mix (including krill, whole herring, & shrimp)....

NLS Thera+ - krill, herring, wheat flour, algae meal, garlic....

OK food:

Hikari Cichlid Gold - fish meal, flaked corn, wheat flour, gluten meal, brewer's dried yeast...

Hikari Bio-Gold+ - fish meal, wheat flour, brewer's dried yeast, gluten meal, spirulina...

Crap:

Tetra Cichlid Sticks - Fish meal, torula dried yeast, wheat germ meal, dried potato products, wheat gluten... what fish eats potatoes????

You have to look at the ingredients, if the first thing listed is wheat or corn products, do your fish a favour and toss it in the trash....

These are the pelleted foods that I feed to my cichlids, I don't ever go near the Nutrafin, Tetra, etc. as it is generally overpriced garbage.

If someone has a container of other foods it would be great to post the first 5 ingredients so everyone can compare what they are giving their fish....

Burt

 

[jclyde13]

From an old post that has good relevance to this thread:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119654

In response to the quote you posted: Omega one may have better ingredients than Hikari, but I looked up the pricing, and it costs literally twice as much as Hikari.

 

[Burtess]

In response to the quote you posted: Omega one may have better ingredients than Hikari, but I looked up the pricing, and it costs literally twice as much as Hikari.

Not where I buy it

Hikari Cichlid Gold 8.8oz $8.99 - $1.02 CAD / oz

Omega One Cichlid 6.5oz $7.19 - $1.10 CAD / oz

Burt

 

[jclyde13]

Not where I buy it

Hikari Cichlid Gold 8.8oz $8.99 - $1.02 CAD / oz

Omega One Cichlid 6.5oz $7.19 - $1.10 CAD / oz

Burt

I'm looking at bulk prices (I buy all my fish food in bulk, except for algae disks):
Omega One Cichlid Pellets- $10.395/lb
Hikari Cichlid Gold- $7.268/lb

I did slip up on the prices before, though. I was thinking the 22lb bag of cichlid gold was around $115, but it was actually $159.89 (makes a pretty big difference, lol).