I've recently been trying to expand the foods I feed my fish from the standard flake and frozen blood worms. I have Endlers, Harlequin rasbora, Celebes Rainbow, Black Neon Tetras, and blood fin tetras, and various cory species, among others, spread out in a few different tanks. The bigger fish I have aren't the issue here, it's the smaller ones.
I purchased NLS All Purpose Formula 1 MM size and it seems to be too big for many of the fish listed above. This is odd because I feed 1 MM pellets to a betta who has no problem with them, but still. It's also a sinking pellet which seems to be sinking too fast for the tetras, rainbows, and rasbora, in particular.
What are the thoughts for using .5 MM food? Would it be small enough for them to ingest or should I just continue using 1 MM and hope for the best?
I see they have a surface feeder formula which is said to be .8 MM and while that may fix the sinking issue, I'm still afraid it will be too big since it's not much smaller than what I have now.
Now I know I can purchase these foods to see what works, but most of them average about $10 for the smallest container which is just too much $$ if they can't even eat it.
Thoughts on this issue?
I purchased NLS All Purpose Formula 1 MM size and it seems to be too big for many of the fish listed above. This is odd because I feed 1 MM pellets to a betta who has no problem with them, but still. It's also a sinking pellet which seems to be sinking too fast for the tetras, rainbows, and rasbora, in particular.
What are the thoughts for using .5 MM food? Would it be small enough for them to ingest or should I just continue using 1 MM and hope for the best?
I see they have a surface feeder formula which is said to be .8 MM and while that may fix the sinking issue, I'm still afraid it will be too big since it's not much smaller than what I have now.
Now I know I can purchase these foods to see what works, but most of them average about $10 for the smallest container which is just too much $$ if they can't even eat it.
Thoughts on this issue?