Foods are the main source of phosphate in aquariums. Phosphorus can be found both inside organic matter that was once alive as well as dry foods such as flakes and pellets, while frozen shrimp or other options without bones tend to contain less phosphorus than many dry products.
Feed your fish sparingly, promptly removing any uneaten food. Frequent large water changes can help control phosphate levels until their source can be addressed.
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Optimal Junior
Optimal Junior is a high protein and low lipid diet specifically formulated to meet the dietary requirements of finicky eaters like Bluegill. This low phosphate fish food comes with shorter mixed length floaing pellets at 3mm to meet younger predator species’ feeding preferences. Ideal for new ponds as well as newly stocked ones.
OPTIMUM utilizes extremely high grade fish meal proteins (hydrolysates) which enhance palatability and digestibility for increased palatability and reduced unabsorbed phosphorus that fuels aquatic plants and algae growth.
OPTIMUM employs a proprietary blend of nutrients that increase the buffering capacity of your fish diet, decreasing gastric acid secretion during digestion and increasing blood HCO3- concentration and net base excretion after feeding. Brewer’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), organic chicken eggyolk, vitamin mineral mix, seaweed, antarctic krill hydrolysed collagen and dicalcium phosphate provide this vital support – creating healthier and happier fish as well as cleaner, clearer waters! This exclusive technology only found with Optimal. The benefits include healthier fish populations as well as cleaner and clearer water bodies!
Optimal Tropical
This low phosphate tropical fish food features flakes based on what freshwater fish consume naturally (most freshwater species eat insects). Additionally, this formula incorporates shrimp proteins for vivid colour enhancement. Finally, digestible flakes help lower water phosphate levels by making this low phosphate diet easily digestible for consumption by the aquatic life in your aquarium.
This food is designed to promote healthy development in small community fish such as tetras, guppies and platies. The soft flakes contain an assortment of vegetables and marine protein to provide essential nutrition, lowering ammonia levels in tanks while improving water quality.
Petbarn team members can help you select and feed healthy fish for your aquarium and advise on ways to keep them happy and healthy; additionally they provide tips for setting up quarantine tanks, cycling water supplies and caring for sick or injured fish.
Optimal Premium
Optimal Premium makes feeding tropical fish simpler by tailoring its feed specifically to their biological and physiological responses in your water body, optimizing feed conversion while mitigating environmental quality impacts.
This 3.5mm pellet food features an easily digestible protein source based on what your freshwater fish eat (most freshwater species feed on insects). Furthermore, the food has been colored enhanced and fortified with DL-methionine, astaxanthin, garlic extracts, and choline chloride for maximum color enhancement and nutritional benefit.
These flakes are low in phosphates and made with highly digestible protein sources such as ulva seaweed and spirulina algae, garlic, beta carotene, DL-methionine, astaxanthin, and choline chloride – an ideal diet for goldfish and koi alike! NLS Custom foods were originally developed by an avid hobbyist dissatisfied with commercial fish food options available on the market who decided to create his own blends instead. As soon as friends saw how healthy, vibrant, vibrant his fish were, NLS Custom foods began selling out the doors!
Optimal Ultra
Reef tank owners with sophisticated filters often neglect phosphate levels in their water column and focus only on managing nitrate levels, but managing how much phosphate comes in from food sources is one of the best ways to combat runaway algae growth.
Frozen foods vary significantly in their phosphate content, with some having lower concentrations than others; but even low-phosphate seafood products contain higher phosphate levels than many dry food items.
An aquarium water change may provide temporary relief if its underlying causes remain unaddressed, but only temporary.
Food is the main source of phosphate in saltwater aquariums. This includes dry and frozen foods as well as grocery store seafood. Even detritivores like mysis shrimp contain phosphates as they consist of matter that once lived.
