Pellet Foods

[mattsilvester]

Dear All,

I am blessed to have an angel that loves pellets. Obvisouly, variety is best - but I would like to give a variety of the best, if you know what I mean.

I know Formula 1 and Formula 2 is very popular. Which is better, and why? Do they contain sponge matter, for angelfish? They come in small, medium, and large pellets. What size would you recommend for say a 3" angel? Are there other (better) options? In your opinion, what is the best pellet food out there?

Thanks.

 

[SDguy]

I use small ON formula 2 pellets. Even my rainfordi butterfly and MI both devour it. I also use New Life Spectrum. I bought the salifert pellets, but have yet to try them. My fish also really LOVE HBH spirulina pellets. Not sure what you have availabe there though...

 

[humaguy]

love nls pellets...feed all 3 sizes and the fish love them...

 

[MIKE NY]

I'm using New Life Spectrum 1mm and 2mm along with two new pellet foods I'm trying Otohime C2 and TDO-EP2 from Reed Mariculture which I just picked up at NERAC ..

 

[dzfish17]

NLS here too... along with different frozen foods.

 

[mattsilvester]

Thanks everyone.

Well the good news (for me) is that NLW and ON Formula's 1 & 2 are readily available here in Bangkok. I've been using NLS Thera +A Regular Formula. That's what the LFS's feed their fish (almost exclusively) so I figured it was a good starting point. I'm going to pick up a small tub of formula's 1&2 tomorrow and start feeding a mix.

There was a time when "feeding only dried foods" was seen as an inferior appraoch to fish nutrition - these days it would seem the oposite is the case - and here in Bangkok the only frozen food available is brinshrimp (which is useless really) - and of course I can feed nori. I can of course do some home-DIY frozen food enriched with selcon - but I am beginning to think the dried food as a staple diet is the way to go? At least dried food is easily bought and shipped online

Thanks guys.

 

[Triton_Z]

Matt,

I've had a lot of success with NLS pellets (standard and Thera +A) with my angelfish, tangs and triggerfish so far. I would also recommend Hikari's Marine-A pellets as that's what I started with prior to the NLS pellets. I use the 3mm pellets and I believe the Hikari Marine-A pellets are approximately 3mm in diameter as well.

3mm may be a tad on the larger size for a 3" angel, but shouldn't take long before it's eating the larger sizes.

I agree with you on the improvement of the good dry pellets, as I use an autofeeder for the pellets daily and supplement with frozen foods, Nori sheets and fresh macroalgae every couple days (PE Mysis mostly).

I'd be curious if varied dry foods (with vitamin supplementation) and the occasional frozen food snack would work well. I would like to reduce some of my PE Mysis use, but its like candy for my fish.

 

[MHG]

I'm using New Life Spectrum 1mm and 2mm along with two new pellet foods I'm trying Otohime C2 and TDO-EP2 from Reed Mariculture which I just picked up at NERAC ..

I tried the tdo-ep2 but the granular are too hard and don't dissolve and the fish choke on it.... I tried the otohime c2 and the fish love that.

 

[MIKE NY]

I let them soak in a cup of SW for 10-15min before feeding which makes them soft..all of my finicky fish eat them that way...

 

[SDguy]

I tried the tdo-ep2 but the granular are too hard and don't dissolve and the fish choke on it....

I think this is why my butterflies and anthias prefer ON pellets. The consistency is a bit softer... no soaking needed.