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What's the best food overall? I know a balanced diet is best, I fed my saltwater tank with 4-5 different foods in rotation.

I keep guppies primarily. My neons seem to eat anything, and I have 2 dwarf puffers. I have blood worms right now (frozen) which is the only thing I give me tanks.

Is there like a best overall food, or a simple meaty diet that is best for freshwater fish? What do you feed?

Thanks!
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I feed my guys a mix and alternate frequently.
One day a week they get nothing, and one day a week they get "pea night" to cleanse the system.
I put a bunch of pellet and cubed foods in a pepper mill, and combine with microworms twice a week.
Just dry/flake the rest of the time.
There are so many ingredients and foods in the peppermill that I could write a 50 word essay, but I really like fishguy1930-something ( Paul off Aquabid) line of guppy foods, decap brine shrimp eggs and fry crack, and the Angel's Plus line of foods.
Too much protein and too much veggie isn't good-find a healthy balance, like they would in the wild.

-Stef*
Mix it up!
Live Baby Brine Shrimp as a treat
Omega One small pellets
NLS small pellets
Kens Fish (Spirulina/Garlic flakes)
Peas now and again
When you guys feed peas do you take them out of the skin/shell and just drop them in? or do you break them up a bit?
I bought Spirulina flakes and a specific pellet thing for fancy guppies... I'm gonna alternate feeding between those two and the frozen bloodworms.
Live foods such as grindal worms, microworms, blackworms, mosquito larvae, daphnia, and scuds.
it depends on the fish. different fish need different foods.
I've changed to NLS as my staple and all my fish love it. I have Orchid Endlers I though had good color before and now they really pop as do my CPD and neon tetra tank. I also mix up offering freeze dried blood worms, tubifix worms, and other items like that.
I use a combination of many foods. For standard dry foods I use NLS. But only three times per week. Other days I rotate between Frozen foods such as blood worms, brine shrimp, beefheart, mysis, glassworms, daphnia, zooplankton, krill, tubafex and for some of them I use sinking algae pellets from time to time or fresh zucchini and de shelled peas. All can be found at any lfs or Petsmart or petco.

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stan shubel: Sea-Gro Guppy Food
lotsoffish: mix #2
unclerick666: guppy chow
inland empire discus: beefheart flake with progrow
Freeze Dried Blackworms: ground up

on the way:
DiscusFORREST AQUAbites Premium Grade Granules (size DF-4)

want to add:
Cyclopeeze frozen bar
live BBS
I switch it up almost daily, not sure which is the best overall though.

- Hikari Micro Wafers
- Hikari Micro Pellets
- Hikari Frozen Blood Worms
- Omega One "Super Color" Tropical Flakes
The forum recently got me on New Life International foods and I must say I have flakes (with garlic), pellets, and wafers and the fish love them plus their ingredients seem pretty high quality.

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I tend to only buy large aggressive fish.

I find guppy's to be the best food.
When you guys feed peas do you take them out of the skin/shell and just drop them in? or do you break them up a bit?
I use a garlic press, and feed them what comes out, then throw away the shell or left over pieces that don't come out.

I tend to only buy large aggressive fish.

I find guppy's to be the best food.
To bad we aren't neighbors
NLS pellets and live food all the way. Baby brine shrimp, daphnia and grindal worms. Grindal worms are so easy - a never ending supply of live food for some pocket change.
My guppy got really defensive over those NLS Wafers. The one female attacked the other female pretty bad. She's all tore up and in my little hospital tank for her. :(
man none of my fish really like my nls pellets, they will spit them out after taking a nibble....

my fish really seem to like every food i have bought from kens fish. check out their stuff - great pricing. only downside is they come in bags and not nice containers
man none of my fish really like my nls pellets, they will spit them out after taking a nibble....

my fish really seem to like every food i have bought from kens fish. check out their stuff - great pricing. only downside is they come in bags and not nice containers
My guppies LOVE the pellets.
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