What is your favorite fish food brands? Why?

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Generally use Hikari, Omega One and NLS, with NLS being preferred with frozen foods mixed in from time to time.

 

[Ruturaj]

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.

Forgot to add for frozen food, I go for hikari.

 

[FishNCash]

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.

I did noticed my recent can of omega one super colors cichlid pellets had different ingredients listed. I did not know about it and thought maybe a different formula for bigger size pellets. After reading their new ingredient label I was not impressed. I’m going to stick with NF and Hikari. I like NLS but the pellets are a bit too hard. My fish are used to Hikari softer pellets so it will be hard to change their habit.

 

[nzafi]

I have been using Hikari massivore for about 2 years now for my aimara. My preference was NLS but after trying multiple different versions of which my aimara refused to eat, I gave up. I recently started feeding raw jump shrimp to my aimara so might try stuffing the shrimp with the NLS I have. My aimara is about 2ft so I am forced to use larger pellets.