With such a wide variety of tropical fish food on the market, it can be dauntingly difficult to select one as appropriate for your aquarium. A superior product produces less waste which means fewer pollutants entering your tank and greater environmental sustainability.
Affordable flakes designed for top and mid feeders that promote vibrant coloring. Made with herring, kelp and salmon for balanced nutrition.
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Flakes
Flake foods are easily available and affordable fish food solutions in big-box stores, making them one of the more accessible options available to pet parents. High quality flakes feature fresh seafood like salmon, krill and cod. Avoid products containing generic fish meal as one of their first ingredients as this often contains ground up waste leftover from processing plants like guts, skin scales etc and contains high percentages of ash content.
Be sure to include natural color enhancers like beta-carotene in the formula; this antioxidant will bring out your tropical fish’s colors more effectively. Another excellent ingredient is spirulina, an easy and healthy source of protein and minerals for your tropical fish. Spirulina comes in different sizes to meet different species’ requirements – larger flakes may suit top feeders while smaller versions are appropriate for herbivores and omnivores alike.
Pellets
Pellets are another type of fish food that come in both floating and slow-sinking varieties to cater for different levels in an aquarium. Their more uniform shape also makes it easier for you to measure out how much you’re feeding to avoid overfeeding your finned friends.
One of the primary advantages of premium pellets and sticks is their superior digestibility compared to their cheaper alternatives, helping reduce waste production in your tank while providing your fish with additional protein, vitamins, minerals and natural colour enhancers.
Tunai 31% Spirulina Fortified Optimum Choice Pellets provide your tropical fish with a varied mixture of ingredients to provide them with essential nutrition, making this an excellent choice for goldfish and other small tropical species. Their 1mm pellet size makes consumption easier for a range of different fish species.
Freeze-Dried
Although less common than its flake food counterpart, freeze-dried tropical fish food offers carnivorous species a nutritious meal option. This food usually consists of whole ingredients like bloodworms or daphnia that have been gut-loaded with nutritious spirulina before being freeze dried to retain both original nutrition and appearance – creating an easy-digestible food with long shelf life that delivers ample amounts of protein for good digestion and lasts an extended time period.
Freeze-dried foods float freely in the water and can be crumbled or broken up into bite-size pieces for smaller fish to consume. Manufacturers generally advise taking steps within three minutes after feeding to avoid ammonia buildup and reduce potential nitrate accumulation.
When selecting fish food, always carefully read through its label to evaluate its ingredients. Avoid products containing “fish meal,” which is made up of ground up leftover skin scales and bones of harvested fish that has been ground into powder form and dehydrated. Furthermore, avoid products containing “crude proteins” or “crude fats,” as these have been heated at high temperatures which has rendered their nutrients inactive.
Live Food
Most fish foods are manufactured through various processing techniques and ingredients to achieve their final form, including flakes, pellets and freeze dried foods. Live foods may also be an option and include daphnia, brine shrimp or white worm cultured products as cultured options.
These foods are fantastic because they haven’t been heated past their point of being dead (118 degrees for 1/2 hour), containing live enzymes which feed living cells and aid digestion, plus abundant anti-oxidants and life-giving chlorophyll content.
These treats provide an ideal alternative to standard flake foods. With 43% protein levels and quickly sinking properties, they make the perfect food for fancy goldfish. Incorporating salmon skin as a source of beta-carotene offers natural color enhancing capabilities – adding this food can keep your marine fish healthy and vibrant! Marine fish typically need high levels of long chain HUFA’s such as DHA, EPA and arachidonic acid into their diet to remain healthy; live foods provide additional HUFA sources that cannot be achieved through manufactured foods formulated foods alone.
