Yea, I feed the large size to my angels and cory cats and the xl size goes to my shellies. Xxl for my smaller cichlids in the 4” range. Need to find a place that sells the 3xl size
I used to use this for my bichirs ... man that food stinks if they don’t eat it immediately! My wife banned it from any “in house” tanks and dislikes it when I use it in the garage tanks too. Haha
Ive use this stuff in the past along with Massivore Delight and yep expensive and makes water smell. The acceptance factor is so high with this food and it really does put weight on skinny fish that it can be worth using in the beginning. Ive tried other "carnivore" pellets from Tropical and NorthFin and nowhere near the acceptance factor in them. I think one of the issues is texture, with the Hikari being softer and the other brands like little stones. Hard to get fish off this 'Crack' food once you start.
Yep it stinks, costs $60 a bag but the rays love it and grow like weeds on it. I supplement their diet with market shrimp but it’s much easier than thawing and cutting up a bowl Or 2 of shrimp 2 times a day.
The NLS Algaemax mini wafer is one of the foods I want to use. Its perfect for larger fish. I could use one of the ‘float’ products but was really wanting more vegi based food in a floating pellet.
Check out the Repashy options. There are a couple of vegetarian selections.
Would any of them float? The eating sinking foods off the bottom was the issue. Didnt want another “chin pimple” fish. It did go away with time but was hoping not to have to go down the path.
It does sink but when I would feed the Repashy to either the Choco or H.N. the cubes didn't ever make it to the bottom. The other nicety to Repashy is getting to custom size the cubes to the fish.
That was the same feeding the Omega One Veggie Rounds with the old pearsei not letting it hit bottom. Was fun to feed as a treat spending a little one on one with the fish.
I did shelled peas as a treat every now and then. I heard of one guy going through a head of Romain a week for this Pearsei. What is their preferred dressing? Is Caesar dressing okay, it does have anchovy paste so that helps....Have you ever tried to get the big guys to eat raw vegetables? I train all my Tropheus colonies to eat leaves of Romain lettuce, and I'm convinced that all that roughage is one reason that I have been so successful with these fishes over the years. Eating the lettuce is nothing like their foraging behaviour in the wild, but once they get the hang of it, they love it.
