Fish Foods

[Clint]

I'd like to get some feedback or input about what fish foods you use, what brands you think are best and why.

I'll be using this to make some articles for the main site.

Im using frozen brine shrimp, kens flake food, baby brine shrimp, and Spectrum pellets.

[LittlePuff]

Frozen bloodworms, mysis, and brine shrimp. Cyclopeeze. Omega One color flakes and pellets, and veggie flakes. Hikari sinking carnivore pellets, algae wafers, and sinking wafers. And TetraMin tropical tablets.

I like variety:) 

[crystalview]

I am new to this and would love to read an article about other peoples choice of food.  I am using Omega One super color, but the flakes are to big for most of my choices of fish they do eat it broken up.  I use Tetra dried bloodworms, the fish and frogs love them a little goes a long way and to much can stuff the fish up.  As you know there are so many choices out there.  Would be interested in knowing more about slow sinking and frozen foods.  Does the frozen make your water cloudy.  I have not tried frozen anything yet.  I feed worms to my fish in a dish so they don't get into the gravel (clear glass works great with a little gravel glued into it).  Hikari micro pellets sank so fast the small fish had trouble getting them before they got lost in the gravel.

[Morgrid]

Kens flake (vitamin, earthworm, vegetable, and color). Frozen: bloodworms and brineshrimp. Live: baby brine shrimp, blackworms, grindal worms, microworms, fruitflies (melanogaster and hydei), mosquitoe larvae (when I can get it), and daphnia (when I can get it) along with various other bugs I catch in the pond, occasionally the LFS will have live brine and I will get that. I also feed purina trout chow (fingerling size) to my cichlids. I have a lot of various, miscellaneous stuff I pick up in my wanderings at club meetings and other fish get togethers that I use as well.

[Fish Woman]

I wanted to comment but then remembered we use a huge (at least 6-10 different brands) variety of foods and I'm sitting here racking my brain trying to come up with them. I will try and write a list down and comment because I think that is truly useful for even the novist aquarist.

[Squeek]

The foods I feed my fish:
Goldfish:
~OSI Goldfish flake
~Wardleys floating goldfish pellet
~Shrimp pellets
~OSI ultra goldfish flake
~Assorted fruit and veges:
     -zuchinni, squash, banana, spinach, romaine lettuce, peas, apple, orange, beans, grape, brocolli, cauliflower (and more I can't think of..lol)

Community tank and killies
~assorted fruit and veg
~OSI shrimp pellets
~OSI spirulina pellets
~OSI vivid colour flake
~New Life spectrum thera a+
~New Life spectrum optimum fresh h20 flake
~snails (for yoyo loaches)
~live blackworms
~Daphnia
~frozen bloodworms
~duckweed (female endlers lol)

Bettas
~Seachem betta banquet
~New Life Spectrum thera a+
~tetra bettamin flake
~HBH betta bites
~Sakura mosquito larvae pellets
~live black worms
~frozen blood worms
~daphnia
~peas

Fry
~Microworms
~Baby daphnia
~BBS
~Wardleys liquifry
~HBH fry bites
~Alpha Premium golden pearl aqua fry food
~Infusoria
~Baby daphnia
~mashed peas
~baby black worms
~Vinegar eels

Snails
~assorted greens (ses above)
~goldfish pellets
~Aquamaster crayfish food

I hope thats all of the food

[fishcake]

I am a long time TetraMin user but recently I have been feeding my fish Hikari micro pellets, Hikari freeze dried bloodworms and Hikari freeze dried brine shrimp. 

I feed them live brine shrimp once in a while and they love it.

[AiWen]

Bettas and Cichlids:
Hikari freeze-dried bloodworms
CleverFish freeze-dried shrimp
Wardley cichlid premium flakes
Top Fin algae thins
Hikari frozen bloodworms
Minced prawns
Minced tilapia
Live baby earthworms
Live bloodworms

[Aiptasia]

For my Cichlids (haps, mbuna, peacocks):
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Ocean Nutrition's Cichlid Omni & Cichlid Vegi in a 1:1 ratio (fantastic ingredients list).
Kent Marines Cichlid Extreme (small pellet, easily eaten)
OSI Cichlid Pellets (pre-soaked in water, big pellets for big fish)
Marineland Bio-Cichlid Pellets (pre-soak in water, big pellets)

42g. Community tank (Kribensis adults & juvis, mollies, plecos, giant danios, tetras & blue lobster):
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Ocean Nutrition's cichlid omni flake (some whole, some pulverized for krib fry)
Hikari frozen bloodworms (once a week)
Hikari frozen daphnia (every other day for krib fry)
Tetra sinking wafers (at night, plecos)
Wardley's Algae wafers (at night, plecos)
Cyclop-eeze (daily, small amounts for krib fry target fed)

29g. Endlers tank:
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Ocean Nutritions cichlid vegi flake
Hikari frozen daphnia

55g. Zebra Pleco species tank:
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Formula one frozen fish food, cubes (high protein seafood diet)
Tetra sinking wafers
Wardley's Algae wafers

*L046 Zebra Plecos are carnivorous fish.

[bast1981]

Krill, Plankton,shrimp

Because it's a natural food that most fish normaly find in their natural diet. It's equally full of proteint and fat to allow them to be healthy and grow to their size they would in the wild. I think it also brought out amazing color into your fish.

Most fish will accept those 3 type of food especially recommended for big fish. Flake food is not enough to cut the diet of much fish. Flake also loose it's nutritive value rather quickly

To me the brand i like more is Tetra because my fish goes crazy over anything this company put out.