Why New Life Spectrum???

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trace said:
I use NLS exclusively because there is plenty of information out there about it's composition and no other food that I have found has an ingredients list that seems as solid. I have spent dozens of hours going through the threads and posts Neil has put up and all that I have read makes sense. So I jumped on the bandwagon and love the results. You see a lot of fish that after they get a couple of years old that start to look sloppy and none of mine do. A lot ofthat has to do with my water changes and good stock, but the NLS certainly doesn't hurt. I could care less what anyone else feeds and if offered proof of a better diet through science I would switch in a heartbeat, but I feel like there is no other food on the market right now that compares IMO. Can you have healthy fish an not feed it, sure but to me I see no reason not to feed it like almost every other food I have encountered. And Forrest I did read the article and had read it before I made the switch.;) it was a good read but not why I did switch. I have Neil to thank for that and product quality and value to thank for keeping me on it.


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Well said!!
 
Forest, im so happy you switched to a superior food. You should see some nice results. I have been in this hobby for a very long time. And I think that nls is one of the best things that has happened in the hobby. I too was very sceptical about useing only one type of food. I dident want to try it. But my brother inlaw did. He had a 12" 7 year old male managuense. Raised completely on hikari. It died at 7 years of age, and 12". That wasa pretty short life and a pretty small size for an adult jag. He did great keeping up the w/c but, the crappy food I believe caused a shorten life span and loss in eventual overall size.

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fish_n_vw said:
Forest, im so happy you switched to a superior food. You should see some nice results. I have been in this hobby for a very long time. And I think that nls is one of the best things that has happened in the hobby. I too was very sceptical about useing only one type of food. I dident want to try it. But my brother inlaw did. He had a 12" 7 year old male managuense. Raised completely on hikari. It died at 7 years of age, and 12". That wasa pretty short life and a pretty small size for an adult jag. He did great keeping up the w/c but, the crappy food I believe caused a shorten life span and loss in eventual overall size.





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+1 prime example of what poor ingrediants do
 
no offense, but posts #32 & #33 make a conclusion about one fish & there's no proof. it could've been genetic &/or many other physical reasons. this is funny.
I'm not a nls hater, but there's a diff between hard facts and just plain opinion ;-)
 
I guess my previous post was more about saying even without the very well, all inclusive information that has already been provided, your always going to have the guy out there whos biggest goal in life is to oppose facts and information. I also wanted to, in my last post, emphasis the negative effects of garbage food. You see you can read all you want, you can ask all you want, and you can research until your dyeing day. But, living it, waching changes in fish that you have kept for years (my meeki pair) and seeing the improvements in overall general health, as well as what seems to be much stonger immune systems, is all the experiance some of us who have been doing this forever need. It was Jeff to who pointed me in The direction of nls. He saw how stubborn and set in my ways I was so he took a different approach. He gave me a Ziploc baggie of nls and said feed only this to one of your tanks until the bag is empty. I did, I will never feed another food as a staple again. :)
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I feed NLS to my african cichlid tank which houses a small bichir and some giant danios as well. So far the fish haven't shown the slightest bit of improvement in coloration since I've had them on the NLS only diet, they've actually loss some color. As far as growth rate goes, a month and a half and the bichir is still exactly the same size at 4" and he gets plenty of NLS as a lot of it falls to the bottom of the tank. The cichlids themselves, all at or under 4", have exhibited very little growth during this period as well. The Danios haven't grown at all despite the largest being at least 2" shy of their max size when I purchased them several months ago. I have never seen growth this slow in fish that I've kept before, even africans, and especially the bichir.

Now, will I claim that that's the rule for NLS. Fish will not improve in coloration and even lose some coloration (there have been other cases of this with NLS, not just mine), and they will not grow or barely grow when eating only NLS. No, because different fish react differently to different foods just like people do, some people get great results with NLS, some people get better results feeding other foods, some people get poor results (like me) feeding only NLS, some people get good results from feeding only nls.

Difference between NLS fanatics and people who feed other foods or aren't so gaga over NLS? The NLS fanatic will feed their fish, see good colors, then go up to anyone that has the slightest interest in fish and preach about the virtues of NLS and say that if that other person isn't feeding their fish NLS, then they aren't treating their fish right and need to change their fishkeeping ways immediately. Frankly, it gets annoying.

People who have great success feeding foods other than nls and have eyecatching fish of their own don't go around preaching to other people about the virtues of their main fish food; they only talk about what they feed if asked and don't go into a rant about why their fish's diet is superior to all others. I just wish that NLS fanatics could do the same.
 
So the fish was fed what you consider as garbage to see how bad it is?

Frankly, for that jag, I would look to tank size, nitrate levels, tank mates etc before looking at the food.


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ecoli73 said:
So the fish was fed what you consider as garbage to see how bad it is?

Frankly, for that jag, I would look to tank size, nitrate levels, tank mates etc before looking at the food.


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Where did I say that NLS was all garbage? Read my posts, lol.
 
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