@NickAu

 

Omega One was going to be my recommendation.


http://kensfish.com Has flake and a whole bunch of other foods, and always gets high praise.


http://almostnaturalfishfood.us Also has a wide selection, gets high oraise, and if you're into the buy local thing, is down the road in one of the Philly suburbs.

NLS has put out a flake recently. Never tried it, but I'm sold on their other food.

 

I also go with Omega one. I just went though all the flake foods at my LFS reading the ingredients and came to the same conclusion.

 

I have had really good success with Omega one as well... I like their garlic version as well. It always gets picky eaters excited.

 

Kensfish is good and you get a lot for the $.

 

I use many different kinds of food but for the money you can't beat Ken's fish food. I still have several large bags in my garage freezer for the last two years and I'm sure it will last at least another year and a half.

 

+ Omega One
+ Almost Natural

 

I like Omega one flakes and also the brine shrimp. I also like to use the New Life Sprectrum Thera and also Wardley Shrimp pellets for the bottom feeders. Its all about variety. I also feed them freeze dried bloodworms sometimes. The brand is Tetra for the blood worms. I also like to soak the brine shrimp in some Seachem Garlic. They absolutely love the garlic soaked food which I give them like every 2-3 days and is SUPER healthy for them. They go for the garlic soaked food over any other, and even the finicky eaters it tends to get them excited.

 

Omega One for my fish!

 

Raised a group of Discus on Ocean nutrition flake when they were small.
Protein % was considerably higher than most other flake food's.
I soon began offering wider variety lest the fish begin to refuse other offering's.

 

Cobalt is great. I also like Omega One and Almost Natural.

 

Almostnaturaltropicalfishfood.com

 

@roadmaster I've also had very good results with Ocean Nutrition foods.

 

Arguably the best food for herbivores and omnivores, ZooMed Spirulina 20, even carnivores like it.


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Omega One, New Life Spectrum, Those are the foods I feed on a regular basis. Elive foods seem to be similar to Omega One.

 

Thanks for the input everybody! I use Omega one and New Life Spectrum exclusively now along with freeze dried bloodworms twice a week.

 

Many years ago, in a fish forum far, far away, a question in the form of a negative comment was raised about fish foods that contain fishmeal. Being unsure about fishmeal, I did some pretty thorough research....
Fishmeal is often cannery refuse that's ground, dried and loaded with preservatives to sit in a warehouse (sometimes for months on end) until ordered by a fish food manufacturer. Because it is dried and lacking fresh protein, copious amounts of starch (usually from grains - such as wheat, rice, oat, gluten) are required as binder/filler. But fish can't use/process grains, so it passes through as excess waste.
Higher quality fish foods use fresh fish (protein) which requires no (or far less) grain as binder.

So check the label and see what's listed first in the order of ingredients!

Note: when I switched those many years ago to high quality foods I noticed that the waste my fish produced was SIGNIFICANTLY less.....'believe it or not'.

Tip: to save a few dollars on the more expensive, high quality foods, buy the large size and store in the freezer, keeping only a small container for regular feeding.