API tropical fish food is highly recommended to enhance both the health and beauty of your finned companion. These flakes have been specifically developed to offer comprehensive nutrition while improving aquarium water quality.
These foods are easy to digest, reducing water waste in your aquarium and providing essential nutrition to herbivorous fish that feed off them.
Contents
Flakes
These flakes, designed specifically for community aquariums, float above the water’s surface before sinking, enabling bottom feeders like Gouramis and baby Cichlids to easily find them. Containing proteins, vitamins and minerals along with carotenoids to enhance fish color.
API TROPICAL FLAKES are specially tailored to tropical community fish such as Angelfish, Tetras and Barbs. This highly digestible diet contains insect proteins (worms) as a source of essential amino acids as well as brewers yeast, garlic and vitamin C for healthy growth and reduces depletion in ocean ecosystems. Furthermore, its absence contributes to less fish meal in ocean environments thereby protecting these precious ocean environments from being depleted further.
API MARINE FLAKES are specifically tailored for saltwater aquarium fish that feed on algae. Each flake contains high amounts of vegetable matter such as spirulina algae and kelp for optimal growth, and rich carotenoids to enhance fish colors. In addition, their nutritionally enhanced protein helps fish absorb essential vitamins while simultaneously producing less ammonia-releasing waste for cleaner waters.
Pellets
Pellets can also be an effective means of feeding various species of fish, similar to crisps and flakes. Pellets are designed to deliver food directly to the bottom of an aquarium where certain fish tend to seek it and reach, something flakes may not do effectively. Furthermore, pellets may hold up better in water environments and be fed directly to smaller fish that don’t respond well to flakes.
API Tropical Premium Pellets are specially formulated to provide complete and balanced nutrition to community tropical fish species such as tetras and angelfish, helping reduce waste for healthier fish and cleaner aquarium water. Packed with marigolds and carrots to enhance natural colors while adding garlic for increased immune support and disease resistant natural defenses, API Tropical Premium Pels make an excellent addition to any aquarium environment.
These foods contain high-grade proteins, such as squid and shrimp, for optimal growth in aquarium environments. Furthermore, their unique nutritionally enhanced proteins ensure easy uptake of nutrients while producing less ammonia emissions for a clean, clear aquarium environment. Feed only the amount your fish can consume within three minutes.
Invertebrates
Invertebrates differ from vertebrates by lacking backbones; both belong to the Kingdom Animalia but invertebrates are far more diverse.
Invertebrates such as crabs and clams provide essential habitat for other marine organisms, serving as food sources for both fish and marine mammals alike. Furthermore, many invertebrates also serve as vital resources to humans.
Our study shows that people often turn to invertebrates for medical and religious use, typically on the belief that different invertebrate species contain therapeutic properties. Their use seems especially prevalent for skin conditions than any other ailments, suggesting these animals possess curative powers.
API TROPICAL GREEN FLAKES are packed with algae and perfect for herbivorous cichlids like Tropheus & Mbuna that thrive in freshwater environments. Featuring an exclusive nutritionally enhanced protein that makes nutrient absorption simpler for fish while producing less ammonia to ensure cleaner, clearer waters. Formulated using multiple algae species including beet pulp and spirulina for optimal growth as well as garlic for enhanced palatability, these premium flake supplements make the perfect food choice!
Herbivorous
Herbivorous fishes play an essential role in maintaining coral reef ecosystems by eating algae that threatens to outcompete corals. In Hawaii, commercial fishing for herbivorous parrotfish (uhu), chubs/rudderfishes (nenue) and surgeonfishes (manini) is common; wild versions are caught more rarely but still feed heavily upon turf algae and epilithic algal mats (EAM), as well as detritus and protein-rich autotrophs like cyanobacteria (Crossman et al. 2015; Burkepile et al. 2019; Nicholson and Clements 2020).
Herbivorous fish utilize specialized stomach morphologies to break down algal diets. Through mechanical action of gizzard-like stomach muscles and acidic gastric secretions, algal cells are ground into dust for chemical breakdown and absorption by bacteria in their digestive systems. Microbial fermentation processes also digest components such as polysaccharides and long-chain fatty acids found in their food source. API Tropical Flake Food’s high quality mix of ingredients was specifically created to meet the needs of tropical community fish such as Angelfish, Tetras and Barbs; tests have demonstrated release of up to 30% less ammonia from bacteria producing cleaner water than its competitors – giving it an edge in terms of cleaner water quality!
