What do you feed your fish???

I was told the best pellet food (floating or sinking) to feed your fish was Omega One because it does not contain fish meal and starches. I read the packages of hikari and tetra foods that I have and first and/or second ingreadiant is fish meal and some sort of starch. I don't have a container of Omega One in front of me so I can't compair. Does it matter? Does anyone have experience with Omega One and is it worth the extra money for this "premium" food? For years Hikari was the best and my fish always did fine on it and once a week a treat in the form of salad shrimp from the albertsons meat counter. Fish meal is protein that can come from anywhere and anything so what are we really feeding our fish.

I feed New Life Spectrum fish foods. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
I've tried many other brands, but I like this one the best! I've been feeding it almost exclusively to my African cichlids for years now. It's fairly expensive, but a little goes a long way. I buy it in the 5 lb. bucket and keep it in the freezer, refilling the smaller container as needed.

I've been raising a group of bristlenose plecostomus in a bare tank and alternate what I feed them and I have noticed that there is far less waste (poop) when I give them NLS. I think that there are more usable ingredients in the NLS pellets and less filler than the other brands that I've been giving them.

+1 to NLS, although I do use Hikari wafers for my pleco's at this point (planning to change this up when I run out).

I mix a bunch together... a little Tetra flake, Hikari Sinking Cichlid Excel, Hikari color enhancing, Marine Labs Bio Blend, Shrimp pellets and every third day or so I put a slice of cucumber in. The Hikari Sinking Cichlid Excel seems to be the favorite though, but my pictus catfish are vacuums.

a mixture of different hikari pellets, massivore sinking pellets, algae wafers, and on occasion frozen shrimp. and i got some cool black market shoot givin to me by a friend.....but, not one fish has eaten even one of those pellets yet..so its just a waste.

the problem i run into is different tanks like different stuff. i wish i could get all my tanks the same as far as feeding goes... my 125 loves the mixture of hikari pellets, but wont eat the massivore so much. my 100 wont eat shoot. my ornatums seem to only eat sinking stuff. they will not swim to the top and get the floating pellets.

i am trying to weed out the floating pellets, they seem to just get tangled up in the plants and go to waste. i honestly believe i throw away more then what gets eaten, were as sinking pellets pretty much all get eaten.

oh ya i forgot... flake food for the little guys also.

i have Omega One Flake, Veggie Rounds, and Chichlid pellets.. i havent had a rejection from anyone.. well cept a retarded rainbow shark who prefers philodendron roots >.<

I only feed New Life Spectrum Cichlid Formula and Hikari Spirulina to my Mpimbwe Frontosa.

I feed my Saulosi New Life Spectrum Grow Formula and Omega One flakes.

I drop some Algae Wafers in my tanks for my Plecos and snailzorz.

hikari floter and krill. some times HBH super cichlid floaters.

All my fish are on. Cichlid gold, mysis shrimp (frozen cube), and large frozen krill sheets. With some advice from Shua I am feeding them 3 times a day and I hope to get my lazy butt to the store to get massivor pellets.

I think the best food is variety.

I feed them: Hikari Gold, NLS Large Formula, Hikari Excel, Spirulina pellets, Krill pellets, and for my American cichlids Trout food. Also, freezefried: crickets, earthworms, mealworms. I never use live foods.

I would feed my large fronts garlic boiled shrimp..they LOVE that. My Mpimbwe are getting big enough to handle some shrimp..gonna get them some this weekend.

Oh... and as a special treat I feed my fish some fresh ground up Fronts.

Paintguy wrote:Oh... and as a special treat I feed my fish some fresh ground up Fronts.

I might have to give that one a try.

The fish at our house eat a whole bunch of stuff. I think our freezer is full of fish food instead of people food.

krill, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, talapia filets, market shrimp, blood worms, feeder fish and guppies, massivore pellets, aro sticks.

Paintguy wrote:Oh... and as a special treat I feed my fish some fresh ground up Fronts.

My fronts eat most of these..."Current fish: Orange Barbs, Black Neon Tetera, High Fin Marble Pleco, Pictus Catfish, Convict, Tinfoil Barb, Chinese Algae Eater, Red Tailed Shark, Electric Blue Jack Dempsey. Note that I am scientific fish name challenged.

spyral - thats an expensive diet! lol

I like HBH... I know a bunch of people dont like them anymore, but HBH super soft spirulina pellets are awesome with vitamins, and my fish eat them up... I like HBH veggie flake too.... the newest pellet my fish seem to go crazy over, (Eat it all before it hits bottom) is dainichi veggie deluxe, they make other kinds, but the baby sized ones are awesome! and sink fast so I dont have to worry about my fish gobbling air and gettin bloat.

Ya Sanduka! I forgot about HBH!

I really like their African Cichlid Attack, their Krill pellets and Spirulina pellets (mentioned above; Petsmart actually sells it as Top Fin, but it's exactly the same as HBH).

Are there any retailers that carry HBH still? Petco/Petsmart used to carry them, but no longer do (except for the Top Fin products. Top Fin is a bunch of companies: Marineland, Tetra, HBH , etc..)

There are two LFS near me that sell them, thats pretty much the only thing they carry, Thats how I started on them.. lol.... but turns out they are a great product so its cool they only carry HBH. Pet Pourri in everett, Jones pets in marysville.

I still like HBH pellets...I buy both the spirulina pellets and the krill pellets.
and you can buy both of these at AQUARIST WORLD in white center thats were I buy them

I usually feed them frozen fillets and shrimp. Earthworms are great also.

random flake food
HBH cichlid attack sinkers
koi pellets
algae wafers
zucchini
cucumber
peeled peas
sea weed
romaine lettuce

I feed my fish alot of different items. Im starting to get away from live foods.

Beefheart and seafood mix
Live black worms
Freeze dried blackworms (awesome)
Hikari Gold pellets
Flakes

I tried mysis shrimp and out pellets and flakes that they don't like. So when I find something they won't eat I mix it in with my beefheart and seafood mixes.

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