pellet foods

[dixiedog]

Seems like all I hear about is Formula 1, and New Life Spectrum. I've used one of them but I don't remember which one, all I know is the pellets sank like lead buckshot. It was so ridiculous I haven't tried pellets again since.

Is there a pellet food out there that hangs in the current a little before slamming to the bottom? :lmao:

 

[snorvich]

Seems like all I hear about is Formula 1, and New Life Spectrum. I've used one of them but I don't remember which one, all I know is the pellets sank like lead buckshot. It was so ridiculous I haven't tried pellets again since.

Is there a pellet food out there that hangs in the current a little before slamming to the bottom? :lmao:

Why would you want it to do that?

 

[NMC]

I don't know about the OP, but I was sort of wondering the same thing. My one and only fish, a firefish, seems to prefer eating things that are floating by and usually ignores stuff that has sunk to the floor of the aquarium. I think he'd get more to eat if they didn't sink so fast. Once they hit the bottom, snails and shrimp go to town. This isn't a huge concern, just kinda get why the question was posed (I think).

I just switch it up with flakes and frozen stuff that does stay afloat longer and don't worry about it too much.

 

[nikon187]

if it floats on top it will just be sucked down the overflow to rot. NLS is one of the best quality pellets out there.

 

[solitude127]

I have my autofeeder drop my NLS pellets in front of my vortech and I can only get about 1/4 of the feeding to sink.

 

[jhentr]

I used both the above and they do sink as you describe (abiet not that fast). I usually don't worry in my case since my hungry fishes will pick it up from the rocks/sand. I can only say maybe hand feed if possible with less so you can control the amount that hits the ground.

Both are great pellets too! I know some advertises themselves as slower sinking an you can probably look them up (Hikari?). HTH

 

[OodleyBoodely]

Look for Reed Mariculture's Top-Dressed Otohime. Reed recently created a new line of foods for the hobbiest as opposed to big breeders, so, you will need to look that up as I don't recall the new name. It is a pelleted food developed for clownfish breeding and comes in various sizes. I received free samples of two sizes, an exta fine and a small. It is semi-boyant and will stay in the water longer than the NLS pellets. It is also very palatable to the fish. My fish loved it and took to it immediately. These same fish would never touch NLS which would sink too fast for them to even know it was there in most cases.

 

[OodleyBoodely]

AquaThrive is the name...

 

[Lacktaters]

I use three different sizes of NLS mixed up in an automatic feeder that sits directly above an mp40. Since 2/3 of it was still getting caught in the surface tension and going right over the overflow, I bought a cheap feeding ring. It works great, keeps the food right above the mp40. Little by little it breaks the surface tension and blows all over the tank.

 

[SKurj]

I don't have an overflow so no worries there, but I have a gold neon goby and a couple of clowns that only seem to eat what floats by and I have the same issue where the food sinks so fast they can miss it. Though to be fair the clowns never miss it, the goby does though. With just 4 small fish in the tank I don't feed much so get concerned the goby isn't getting enough. (only had him 6 weeks or so he was 1st in the tank)

He never misses the flakes and they seem to be his favourite but I really would like to see him catch more of the pellets before I go on vacation later this yr when the tank will be relying on an autofeeder.

 

[LargeAngels]

I always used NLS but now feeding a lot of Reeds TDO and most of the fish really like it.

 

[dixiedog]

Look for Reed Mariculture's Top-Dressed Otohime. Reed recently created a new line of foods for the hobbiest as opposed to big breeders, so, you will need to look that up as I don't recall the new name. It is a pelleted food developed for clownfish breeding and comes in various sizes. I received free samples of two sizes, an exta fine and a small. It is semi-boyant and will stay in the water longer than the NLS pellets. It is also very palatable to the fish. My fish loved it and took to it immediately. These same fish would never touch NLS which would sink too fast for them to even know it was there in most cases.

Thanks OB, that sounds promising!

I hunted around the interwebs, and only found AquaThrive in one place (Aquarium Specialty) but they wanted $12 shipping for a $13 can of the stuff, and I just couldn't pull the trigger. Then, miracle of miracles, I found it at my LFS ... only it had an expiration date of March 2011.

I'll keep looking til I find some.

 

[OodleyBoodely]

Hope you find some.