FLAKES: Among the flake brands I tried are tetracolor, tetramin, and Bettamin. Flakes are the least effective food supply I tried. In my 3 gallon i had a darter nibble on them but i stopped giving them to darters as they didn't eat many and struggle to reach the top toi feed. In my 55 gallon tank only my guppies eat flakes wih any enthusiasm. Sunfish and shiners pick atr a few as they sink but never with enthusiasm. Native fish have a preference of small betta flakes to large flakes, but would much rasther prefer no flakes at all. I have more or less given up on flakes.
GRANULES: I tried a couple brands of granules and they deserve individual reviews.
- Vipagran Baby: I got these iny granules when my guppies had babies hoping to feed them. Instead I found them to be the ultimaste native fish food. Sunfish, shiners, and even darters snaqck on them. This is one of the few arificial foods darters enjoy and one of the few fish are enthusiastic about.
- Tetracolor granules: Generally speaking sunfish will pick at these when they fall and shiners will pick at them off the bottom, but nbo fish is enthusiastic about them and often they get spit outmore than they are eaten.
DRIED FOOD:
- Tetra Baby Shrimp (sun dried grammarus): Longnose dace love these and will suck them off the surface with a satisflying splashing sound. Other shiners and sunfish will pick at them as they sink but without the longnoses enthusiasm.
- Wardley Fish Treats- Krill: The first thing you noptice about this food is the odor. Opening a jar of it will instantly stink up your room. And fish like this odor. However fish have trouble eating krill, it's large and quite tough, even breaking it up in your hands before feeding causes trouble. sunfish and shiners like it, they just have major trouble eating it.
Edited by FirstChAoS, 22 July 2009 - 02:08 AM.