Recommendations for fish food

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I would appreciate any recommendations for fish food.

I think I inquired a while back about fish food on this forum and varied the diet of my fish some as a result. I tried to find my original post but without success, consequently I am asking for input again. I have 6 Congo, 17 Neon, and 5 Rummynose Tetras, 1 small Clown Loach, 1 small Burmese Border Loach, 3 Hatchets, and 3 SAEs.

I usually feed my fish once a day - occasionally twice. 3X a week Aquarian Tropical Flake Food, 2X a week Frozen Brine Shrimp, 2X a week Frozen Blood Worms and 2X a week Hikari Sinking Wafers (along with the flake food)

I believe I remember some of you recommending TetraMin Tetracolor and TetraMin Tropical Crisps. I am not sure how well suited my fish are to the crisps - Are they for larger fish than mine?
 
i like hikaris fish food. its little pricey but its quality food
 
Hrmm. Depends on whether you want quality or cheap food. I've slowly been "gathering" different types of foods (all of which have passed my "test" for nutrition). You can basically forget about the processed foods that your petstores are selling. The only foods I've found at petstores that are worth your time/money would be the Omega One foods and the Atison's Betta Pro. Frozen foods are great (I prefer Hikari in the frozen food department, though their processed foods are junk), as well as some of the single ingredient foods (freeze dried foods, dried seaweeds, etc).

And, remember, if you know what you're doing in the nutrition department, the fish on the label isn't necessarily what you have to feed the food to. I use the Atison's Betta Pro for young carni/omni cichlids with great success.

I'm not sure of the nutritional requirements on your specific fish, but, golden pearls are good for small carni/omni fish. Also maybe try frozen daphnia, depending on the actual size of your fish.
 
TetraMin Flakes
Ingredients:
Fish meal, dried yeast, ground brown rice, shrimp meal, wheat gluten, feeding oat meal, fish oil, potato protein, dehulled soybean meal, soybean oil, algae meal, sorbitol, lecithin, monobasic calcium phosphate, ascorbic acid (source of Vitamin C), yeast extract, inositol, niacin, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, riboflavin-5-phosphate (source of Vitamin B2), A-tocopherol-acetate (source of Vitamin E), D-calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), pyridoxine hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Vitamin A palmitate (source of Vitamin A), menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K), biotin, cyanocobalamin (source of Vitamin B12), choleocalciferol (source of Vitamin D3), manganese sulfate monohydrate, zinc sulfate monohydrate, ferrous sulfate monohydrate, cobalt nitrate hexahydrate. Color includes: Beta-carotene, bixin, Blue No. 2 Lake, oleoresin (capsanthin and capsorubin) Red No. 3 dye, Yellow No. 5 lake, Yellow No. 6 Lake. Ethoxyquin as a preservative..


Meh... Fish meal: just a random bunch of fish that were unacceptable for human consumption. It doesn't specify which type of fish, and it's not "whole ____ meal". If it had been "whole salmon meal" that'd be a totally different story. Dried yeast: ok, as it adds vitamins, but, certainly not for a second highest ingredient, ESPECIALLY not when "fish meal" is the top ingredient. Ground brown rice: honestly, where in nature would a fish eat rice? Yes, if you want a "crisp" flake food, you need the grain ingredients like rice flours, wheat flours, etc, but, since this food already has other binders elsewhere, this isn't necessary, as these aren't goldfish who need carb fillers. Shrimp meal: This one is fine, but, look how far down on the list it is. It would have been great as the number one ingredient, or even lower on the list if the ones above it had any quality to it, but, as it is, this does the food no good.
 
I'm curious..what makes salmon meal better than other fish meal?

it is un likely many of our tropical fish would ever encounter many salmon.

wouldn't salmon meal be an un-natural ingredient for them?

;)
 
I feed generic, staple flakes that one of my LFS sells. According to the container the ingredients are: fish meal, shrimp meal, liver, yeast, flour, kelp, fish oil, meat protein, vitamin pack, vitamin B and K, cod liver oil. Not one of those things would the fish eat naturally but they do and they are healthy.

Other than that I feed bloodworms, brine shrimp, tubifex worms and hikari algae/sinking pellets. I honestly do not think that finding the food with the most "natural" ingredients is going to make a difference.
 
I use mostly various Hikari & Omega One foods along with various frozen and live.
 
New Life Spectrum community formula, Hikari Bloodworms, and Hikari Algea Wafers for me :)
 
I have to second NLS. Definitely used to be in the "what's so special about it" camp, but after watching how greedily even fish that are notoriously picky about their food take it, theres no question about its superiority for me anymore... It was the first prepared food my killies ever touched, and my samurai gouramis (wild caught) didn't think twice about eating it. I still love hikari foods as well, and tend to stick with their frozen food/algae wafers/goldfish food.
 
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