I really like XTREME Aquatics (if you can find it).

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Stuart


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After trying various fish food for my small livebearers and tetras I can safely say that Hikari Micro Pellets is a good option.

 

My Ember and Tucanos tetras like the Hikari mocro pellets described above but seem to love the tiny New Life spectrum pellets, too. I also feed frozen foods occasionally Baby brine, daphnia, and mysis. Every once in a while, I’ll hatch some live baby brine. But the staple dry foods are the Hikari and NLS pellets.

 

I have no source for NLS foods without paying shipping. Didn't find it on Amazon.

 

I just found it on Amazon. I dont think we’re allowed to post a link, but type New Life Spectrum Thera A small pellet in the search box. For some reason the results include other stuff but it’ll be there. I buy the 60 gram size and it lasts a long time.

 

Of course you're allowed to post links. Just not referral links.

 

Back then walking into the medication aisle was like a candy store- now not so much....

 

And lots of snake-oil was sold as cures for fish maladies.

 

Crushing up a good quality flake food is always a good option. Even if you don't crush it up they'll nibble at it until it's all consumed.

 

Couldn't agree more. Most of my small fishes have a habit of eating at the top. Sinking pellets do not get picked up by them once they start sinking. Flakes keep floating and even the bigger pieces get picked up once they become soft enough to be broken down. The only reason I still prefer Hikari pellets is due to their nutritional value. My fishes seem more happy, energetic and free from diseases when on pellet diet.

 

I'm a fan of the Xtreme line of foods as well. The nano pellets are great

 

My kubotai rasboras like NLS Grow Cell. The 300 t0 400 micron particles are neutral density in water and drift around for a while which makes them easy for the fish to find. The shrimp also seem to like it, too. I bought the food on Amazon.

 

I've wondered about feeding fry food to mature nano fish like chile rasbors and embers. May try it, but I hesitate because most of the NLS food would go bad before I could use it.

 

I hate buying small packs of food because they cost so much compared to the larger quantity. I started vac sealing food into roughly one month portions. Flake and pellets have the same color and smell when I cut open a fresh portion

 

Great idea. I can do vacuum sealing.

 

I feed about everything Hikari micro pellets.
Also, for a flake food

Cool Mysis

aquanix, cool mysis flake, mysis flake enriched, mysis diet, selco, high dha, garlic, color enhancing, astaxanthin

www.brineshrimpdirect.com

is good, all my fish love it including picky discus.

 

Hikari Vibra Bites is another option. They can be crushed to make them smaller than they already are.

 

I'm having issues with my Cardinal Tetras and Harlequin Rasboras eating any food small enough and appetizing enough for them. Live brine shrimp always works well. Hikari Fancy Guppy is hit or miss (HAS to be fresh). Hikari Micro Pellets seem too big although sometimes they'll accept them. Hikari Tubifex (stick on glass) is nice as an occasional treat as are Hikari bloodworms, but I feel as if I have to stir the bloodworms into the water column since neither the Tetras nor Rasboras really seems to want to feed from the surface for some reason.

 

You can give the food a little squish between your fingers to break it up smaller. I do that with xtreme nano pellets when I feed my CPDs. The standard pellet size is a bit too big for them but crush it when I break it up a bit.

 

I'm a huge fan of the Repashy foods as well. Very high quality, you can make it in the portions you need, and being a gel, pretty much anything can eat it. Even my pencilfish all go after it even though it sinks to the bottom. After you make a batch, throw it in a ziplock bag and stick it in the fridge, it's fresh for 2 weeks that way (longer if you freeze it).

 

Bonus(es): You can let it 'set' in pretty much any kind of shape you want. There are some people who let it set around feeding rings, cones and other things that they clip to the side of their tank.

It's also easy to to include blend in mix-ins, medications, supplements.