Tropical fish require various kinds of food to thrive, including flakes, pellets and frozen items.
Flakes are an efficient and simple way to feed surface feeders or small midwater species needing extra nutrition.
Unlike other flake supplements, this formula was specifically created to encourage healthy fish and clear water. Its proprietary blend of nutrients includes vitamins and astaxanthin to intensify coloration.
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Flakes
Flakes are one of the most widely available forms of food for tropical fish aquariums, offering numerous choices tailored to specific species or designed to feed all aquarium inhabitants.
These flakes contain essential nutrients that will support the overall health and beauty of aquarium fish. Plus, their formula won’t leach color into the water, helping maintain clear waters.
This food has an outstanding acceptance rate with most fish species and offers an affordable solution for budget-minded aquarium owners. Containing anchovies – which provide high quality protein – this food provides high acceptance with fish.
This multi-ingredient granulated food is specially formulated for young flowerhorn cichlids and other large species of cichlid fish, providing easily digestible proteins, Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids to support growth, condition improvement, as well as natural carotenoids to intensify colors.
Pellets
Pellets are wood-based products with an uniform size and heat content, made from recycled agricultural and forestry waste such as tree branches, leaves, straw and residues from crop production. These materials are treated, cleaned and processed using steam, heat and pressure before being transformed into pellet production using steam heat pressure technology resulting in dense pellets which can be stored, transported, shipped at reduced costs with reduced carbon dioxide production when burned.
Pellets can either float, but most are designed to sink for bottom dwelling fish such as catfish and loaches, making them easier for these bottom feeders to consume without creating a mess or polluting their environment. Furthermore, pellets typically lack dyes or artificial colors for an eco-friendly experience in aquariums or ponds while fishmeal-free pellets help preserve our oceans; additionally they’re highly nutritious, color enhancing and are made using plant and insect-derived formulas which mimic foods your tropical fish consume in nature – creating healthy environments both inside their ecosystems!
Frozen Foods
Frozen foods as an addition to flake feedings can provide your aquarium fish with all of the energy and vitamins they require for optimal health, improve digestion, and produce a more natural energetic eating response similar to what would occur in their natural habitats. We offer bloodworms, white mosquito larvae, vitamin-enriched brine shrimp as well as larger carnivore foods such as cockles, krill and mussels for larger carnivores.
Most of our frozen food offerings come in the form of small cubes that have been gamma irradiated for disease prevention, but some come as large frozen slabs which must be defrosted and chopped before giving to aquarium fish.
Some fish may become used to eating certain kinds of frozen foods and reject other, more nutritious items. If this occurs, try mixing pellets into their frozen meals in order to introduce different nutrients again. Many frozen food items float freely for surface feeders but could sink quickly underwater without proper pre-soaking.
Live Foods
Bloodworms, brine shrimp or daphnia live foods can stimulate natural feeding behavior in fish while adding extra nutrition. Furthermore, live foods promote activity within an aquarium environment.
Bloodworms and other live foods contain carotenoids which help enhance the color of many fish species, in addition to being packed full of protein and minerals.
Brine shrimp and daphnia provide both freshwater and marine fish with an abundant source of protein, as well as high concentrations of essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Microworms (Panagrellus redivivus) and moina can easily be cultured for feeding small fry. Juvenile Oscars seem particularly fond of devouring this food source until their bellies become distended.
