View Full Version : new life spectrm food
LMOUTHBASS
12-19-2003, 3:58 PM
i bought some recently the guy said it's awesome stuff - anyone know about this
Slappy*McFish
12-19-2003, 4:08 PM
lol, see my post in your other thread about loaches. Yes, I use it and it is awesome food. Probably the best you can buy and is amazing for it's ability in enhancing fishes' color. I use the community fish formula. I tried going to their website, but it seems to be down right now. None the less, here is the link:
http://www.nlpublish.com/
JSchmidt
12-19-2003, 4:20 PM
I bought some of this food; the salesman was wildly enthusiastic about it, especially about it's ability to enhance color.
I've been using it for about a month and a half in a number of tanks. I've been runing a head-to-head comparison in two tanks with identical species. One tank has been getting primarily the new life spectrum food, the other tank has been getting the normal mixture of foods I usually feed.
I honestly can see no difference between tanks in the coloration of the fish. They look pretty much the same to me. Where I do see a difference is in the amount of waste. The New Life Spectrum tanks have markedly less waste. I don't know if I'm feeding less (the New Life pellets are very tiny) or if they're more digestible and produce less weight per unit of mass... I don't know, but the New Life Spectrum tanks are staying cleaner.
The fish seem to really like it, too. It's not dramatically more expensive, I don't think, than other foods, so I'll probably keep using it. In fact, I just ordered a 5 lb. tub of it from PetSolutions yesterday.
Jim
Slappy*McFish
12-19-2003, 4:26 PM
Jim, I'm surprised you haven't seen a color difference with this food. What kinds of fish are you feeding it to? I've noticed a huge difference in the red coloration of my clown loaches, Redtail shark, and Serpae tetras since using this food. Though I've been using it for over a year now. I definetely agree with you on the waste issue...very clean food.
I use and love this food. I am not sold on its color enhancing abilities, BUT fish look good, eat it like crazy and I agree about the waste issue too!!
Slappy*McFish
12-19-2003, 4:51 PM
Hmm, interesting. I noticed the first ingredient is Krill meal...so it should have color enhancing capabilities...as would brine shrimp and shrimp pellets. My fish eat alot of all these fish foods, so that could be one of the reasons why they appear 'colored up', so to speak. Though, a well balanced diet and a clean environment have alot to do with that too, I'm sure.