Why New Life Spectrum???

[1bigdovii]

4.5 & 7.5mm "floating" shouldn't have ever changed in size over the past 10 years - mine never have & I deal in large quantities. The 6mm (sinking) did in fact change in size last year, that is true. (different make of dies)
Poor excuse though, I agree sizes should always be consistent from one batch to the next.

Thank you so much RD, very helpfull. I have been stumped with this problem for a while. My 4.5 floating have always been correct. The only floating pellets ive had the inconsistant size with is 7.5mm. The 7.5 has only been different one time so far so, maybe they just messed that one up. It just made me mad when i got my last 7.5mm pellets cause they were noticably larger than any other 7.5mm nls that i had ever gotten at least 1.5-2 mm larger. I had 4 fish eating those but with the last pellets being larger all but one of them refused to eat it.



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[RD.]

If that ever happens again, contact New Life and/or the vendor that you purchased the food from & ask for a replacement.

 

[rich4297]

Most pellets on the market today will do pretty well raising cichlids for a while. How many of those pellets can keep a fish like a moorish idol alive?
BTW, how many of those show quality fish have you raised on other foods, being a 24 year old student? Please post some pictures!

I've seen beautiful fish raised on turkey hot dogs. Does that mean they're actually healthy? Getting the correct macro and micro nutrient levels? Getting the ideal amino acids? Not getting fatty deposits on their liver?

How many show quality Central American cichlids have we seen on MFK die too early in the last year? Mojo's male zonatus, two big male Midas...

Sorry about your AFRICAN cichlids not coloring up how you'd like. Maybe they were low quality or hormone'd prior to you buying them?


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[cichlid_obsessed92]

And I'm guessing that you have all sorts of scientific data & studies that will support that view?

Many fish that have been kept long term in captivity, and fed commercial dry food their entire lives, have lived longer than average lives compared to their wild counterparts.

With most species of fish it's near impossible to replicate exactly what they would eat in the wild, and even if one could doing so wouldn't guarantee that ones fish would look better, or live longer, especially when kept in the confines of a glass box.

I'm not saying pellets are bad but there not at all the best, all fish have different requirements and its hard to find the perfect pellet for your fish especially when most pellets have too much wheat in them

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[RD.]

Yes, I agree, there are some low quality pellets on the market - but today even the very worst are not remotely close to being as poor compared to what 30-40 years ago was once considered the best. The science behind fish nutrition has come a long ways, and there are at least some companies, perhaps not many, but some that do attempt to make very high end products using very high quality ingredients. Not just full of fluff & starch, like all foods were 40 years ago when I was a kid.

And I disagree about all fish having different dietary requirements. Most fish are omnivorous, and during times of the year when food stuffs are scarce they can & will eat almost anything. Almost every fish on the planet is an opportunistic feeder, no matter how some ichthyologist has them classified.

For decades Tropheus keepers felt that due to the intestinal length & long digestive process in that species, it should only be fed low protein "green" food, and that any amount of animal based protein could cause bloat. Yet science has proven that in captive bred species of Tropheus the intestinal length can be half of what's found in wild specimens.

"Intestinal prolongation, although indicative of specialization on diets with low nutritional value, such as those of epilithic algae and detritus, has been shown to be highly plastic (Sturmbauer et al.1992). In Tropheus moorii the intestinal length of domestic fish measured only 50% of the length found in wild individuals (Sturmbauer et al. 1992)."

A more recent study that was published in 2009 demonstrates just how great intestinal plasticity can be in response to the diet quality of various species of fish found in Lake Tanganyika.

http://limnology.wisc.edu/personnel..._Functional-Ecology-LT-cichlid-gut-length.pdf


The above paper clearly demonstrates just how adaptive wild Rift Lake cichlids can be when it comes to their diet. As long as one feeds a quality food, diet will generally be a non issue with most species, and will not cause any type of major gastrointestinal stress. These fish were born to adapt.

That doesn't mean that one can't supplement a commercial diet, with perhaps foods that the species in question has over centuries evolved to eat & process. No one is saying that one can't, or even shouldn't do that.

 

[fishman09]

I'm not saying pellets are bad but there not at all the best, all fish have different requirements and its hard to find the perfect pellet for your fish especially when most pellets have too much wheat in them

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That's why NLS is such an awesome food. The nutrition in NLS is very universal and can be fed to a variety of different genera of fish from cichlids to marine to freshwater monsters ala cats and aros. There's a reason fish grow larger and live longer for the most part in aquaria. Pellets are an all in one food that take care of any deficiencies found in the wild.


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[Vanimal]

That's why NLS is such an awesome food. The nutrition in NLS is very universal and can be fed to a variety of different genera of fish from cichlids to marine to freshwater monsters ala cats and aros. There's a reason fish grow larger and live longer for the most part in aquaria. Pellets are an all in one food that take care of any deficiencies found in the wild.


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I wouldn't say all. There are things that fish eat in the wild that aren't in NLS. Like Insects, Amphibians, and I'm sure other fish eggs. I'm almost 100% that there would be different nutrients in these that aren't in NLS. But it does come very close. That's why I think supplementing crickets and other things is good. I've even seen people feeding large Cichlids, Piranhas, Pikes, Arowanas, Wolf Fish, and others eating frogs.


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[F1 VET]

That's why NLS is such an awesome food. The nutrition in NLS is very universal and can be fed to a variety of different genera of fish from cichlids to marine to freshwater monsters ala cats and aros. There's a reason fish grow larger and live longer for the most part in aquaria. Pellets are an all in one food that take care of any deficiencies found in the wild.


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And that was my point from the beginning, I can raise a shoal of carnivorous predators on nls and they can be stunners. They don't need t bones and chicken wings to thrive.



And yes I did read the article, just thought the info of predators can be raised on nls and be healthy was relevant , even tho I still supplement 1x per week shrimp or Talapia.

It took a lot for me to switch from o1 to nls, after a few weeks I saw the difference myself.

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[Squirtle919]

I love NLS for color but find growth its not very good. So I started with food sticks and find they work great for growth. Also found some aquaculture grade pellets which are amazing the fish go crazy for it and the growth is sweet. apparently its mainly the salmon scraps pushed into a pellet with some other stuff.

Anyways I think mixing is the best, but I do notice when I feed NLS more certain colors do appear better and vice versa.

 

[rich4297]

I've been using NLS for about a month. I like the results I'm seeing. I have two fish which won't eat it though. My datnoid which won't even look at pellets even after 10 days of not eating and my paratilapia polleni which spits them out, but will eat the small particles that come out of the other fishes gills. So I am forced to feed frozen krill and live black worms. On a good note my jag who would not eat pellets started eating NLS on the second feeding which amazed me. He wouldn't even look at pellets before. Hopefully I can get the two fish to start eating them. RD you are always my favorite poster thanks for all your knowledge. Fishman09 great youtube channel keep up the good work. Great op also


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