What is your favorite fish food brands? Why?
- Thread starter FishNCash
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I used to like lots of different brands because I thought they were all brilliant high quality foods. But when you delve deeper into it and start taking note of actual ingredients (three cheers for
RD.
) I realise many of the top brands are not good at all. Fish love them yeah, but what do they know.
I've got a glut of Hikari foods to finish off, and then I will be moving on to NLS for the most part. The ingredients lists just speak for themselves.
RD.
) I realise many of the top brands are not good at all. Fish love them yeah, but what do they know.I've got a glut of Hikari foods to finish off, and then I will be moving on to NLS for the most part. The ingredients lists just speak for themselves.
I'm mostly using imported German foods through a contact of mine (it's pretty affordable) but will be swapping to a better food such as NLS in future
Used to be NLS and Omega One (shrimp pellets, color pellets, veggie pellets, their other products weren't as good imo), this was after some extensive, long term testing years ago, combined with educating myself about ingredients, which, by the way, all led me to stop using Hikari-- cheaper ingredients, a fussy Burundi frontosa I had at the time wouldn't eat it, and some beautiful wild C. mloto I'd bought were becoming dull looking on it. These two things started me on the whole food thing In the first place-- after which the mloto returned to their former beauty. All this was before I joined any forums.
Omega One's ingredient list changed to cheaper ingredients (don't know, maybe a year ago), so I stopped using it. I also tried Northfin bug bites at one point for some wild angelfish that took over a month to start eating anything, I also tried feeding them to my other fish. Eh, I wasn't impressed, judging by their effect on color on the rest of my fish-- my angelfish wouldn't eat them, the first thing they started eating eventually was freeze dried blood worms. I didn't get the bug bites again once I used them up; I can't speak to other NF products.
Omega One's ingredient list changed to cheaper ingredients (don't know, maybe a year ago), so I stopped using it. I also tried Northfin bug bites at one point for some wild angelfish that took over a month to start eating anything, I also tried feeding them to my other fish. Eh, I wasn't impressed, judging by their effect on color on the rest of my fish-- my angelfish wouldn't eat them, the first thing they started eating eventually was freeze dried blood worms. I didn't get the bug bites again once I used them up; I can't speak to other NF products.
Call me old fashioned, but I believe in feeding a wide variety to my fish. 
NLS and Northfin here. NLS is very well priced for 2.2kg buckets, 45-65 dollars on walmart. For veggie pellets, NLS (with Algae as primary ingredient and 9 types of algae) all the way, nothing comes close.
I used to use Hikari but then got schooled by
RD.
's years of experience and switched to only NLS.
RD.
's years of experience and switched to only NLS.
I used to use Hikari but then got schooled by
I used to feed whatever looking at pictures or anyone's recommendation. Never looked at ingredients or nutrients. Started looking at ingredients and nutrition because or
RD.
as well. Wow so much I got to learn from him on 5 months and so much I have to learn.
I use to also feed all Hikari. I since switched over to four of the NLS products. Although not required IMO, I will continue with live food for the aro on occasion.
