looking for a good pellet food.

[dcforester1]

I have a variety of fish from tangs, wrasses, clowns, and damsels. all eat pretty much any frozen, and when I try pellets they will eat those as well. I have some small NLS pellets, but wanted to add some large. The issue I am having is the floating pellets go right down the drain. I have a Reefer 450, and I can tell you the surface skimming is unbelievable. LOL I was wondering if there was something between floating and sinking? I dont want to rely on using a ring, and when I use sinking it seems mostly the CUC gets them.

I am going on Vacation and going to be using a Eheim auto feeder
Any Ideas

TIA Derek

 

[codyreed29]

I'm recently picked up some new life spectrum pellets fish like eat them and they sink. They float around in the flow of the tank a while but usually get picked off quickly.

There a small size pellet so everyone can eat them. Well my clown goby and shrimp goby never get a chance to eat them.

 

[davocean]

Agree NLS pellets are my choice too

 

[Djturna4thakidz]

Life Spectrum here too!

 

[Neebles]

Yep NLS!!

 

[kenpau]

NLS all the way, I do have the same problem with some of the 0.5mm pellets going down my drain to sump, then the 1.0mm tend to sink pretty quickly. However it's not a major problem and my fish love them.

 

[scooter31707]

NLS Marine Formula. They are sinking pellets. You can always cut off your return pumps and powerheads to ensure they don't go down into the overflow.

 

[smatter]

Put a funnel with a piece of hose connected to it under your auto feeder. Place the end of the hose just under the waters surface. The pellets will slowly be dispensed without going down the drain.

 

[droth335]

another option is to put your return pump on a timer to coincide with your auto feeder so the pump shuts off for about 30 minutes when the feeder goes off. Low tech but I've used this before and it works well.

 

[anbosu]

If you have enough surface agitation any pellet will sink.

 

[davocean]

If you have enough surface agitation any pellet will sink.

Pretty much agree, I have NLS pellets in my autofeeder, and that is placed far enough from overflow pellets sink before reaching it.
It's a great thing if you have anthia that require multiple daily feedings, and I don't have to sweat weekends away.

 

[andrek787]

I use NewEra Marine Pellets and Grazer rings. They are made using low temperature\pressure process which makes then much more nutritious. I have been feeding NewEra for a couple of years in both FW and marine tanks. My fish could not be happier. My tangs and foxface are so spoiled they refuse to eat Ulva I have been growing for them in the fuge. I suggest you give it a try.

 

[jason2459]

NLS Marine pellets mixed with NLS AlgaeMax pellets. I mix the two in a feeder that is scheduled 3x per day and programmed to shutdown my return pump and skimmer, then feed some kind of meaty foods 1-2x per day by hand and an algae sheet daily.

Pretty much every fish I've ever had and have has taken to NLS Marine very quickly if not right away including finicky Leopard Wrasses. I also like it has whole meaty foods as the first couple ingredients and not some meal or filler.

Ingredients: Whole Antarctic Krill, Whole Fish, Whole Wheat Flour, Ulva Seaweed, Chlorella Algae, Beta Carotene, Spirulina, Kelp, Garlic, Alfalfa, Scallops, Omega-3 Fish Oil, Wakame Seaweed, Spinosum Seaweed, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Folic Acid, Biotin, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Calcium Pantothenate, L-Ascorby-2-Polyphosphate (Vitamin C), Choline Chloride, Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide, Cobalt Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate and Manganese Sulfate.



NLS AlgaeMax because it actually has an algae listed first and the first few ingredients plus a total of 9 of them. It's amazing how many herbivour/algae foods do not have some kind of algae listed first or even second but have some kind of meat based meal.

Ingredients: Algae; Chlorella, Ulva Seaweed, Red Seaweed, Kelp, Spirulina, Wakame Seaweed, Whole Antarctic Krill, Whole Fish, Eucheuma cottonii, Spinosum Seaweed, Chondrus crispus, Whole Wheat Flour, Omega-3 Fish Oil, Alfalfa, Astaxanthin, Capsanthin, Zeaxanthin, Vita

 

[mathman7728]

New life finicky fish...i could not believe the difference it made in my Kole tang color (as well as the other fish) and even my disk coral (it catches the sinking pelts) . i feed a pinch 1 or 2x a day in addition to the typical frozen stuff.

 

[zachfishman]

New Era all the way!

 

[jason2459]

Just checked out the new era pellets. I'm not sure I like the high moisture content and the ash content is high meaning less actual food and higher phosphates levels.

 

[apcoleman]

I run two types of pellets over my mixed reef in autofeeders. NLS 1.0mm pellets and the Neptune crossover diet. Like many I don't care for the new era pellets as they sink too quickly and my fish just ignore it.

 

[Acrononomus]

I use the spectrum pellets as well I use the 2mm ones w garlic and the 3mm ones for my big tangs.... They go crazy for them ! Great colors and very healthy

 

[jason2459]

Wow, must be really big tangs to be feeding 3mm pellets. Naso's?

 

[dcforester1]

Thanks for all the reply, and because I am a gadget guy I just ordered the auto feeder for my Apex, LOL I swear I will buy any crazy thing for that. I was using the Ehiem, but the clock was a pain to get to coincided with my Apex, and I dont have the mounting bracket, so a nice new feeder will be here Tues, and I will have the week to play with it until I am gone. I picked up some sinking and floating pellets, and I am going to try those.


In an unrelated question do people who use Larrys Reef Frenzy, do they rinse, and if I do am I wasting my money washing half the goods down the drain?

Thanks again RC

Derek