Bay Area Aquatics Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 I'm curious, as this seems to be a ongoing debate in the hobby. Do you prefer Flake Food, Pellet Food, or Granules? I own, buy, and feed all 3 types to my fish, because variety is the spice of life. BUT, Flake foods are hands down my favorite because of how versatile it is. If you had to pick one type, whats your favorite and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dyer Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Can I just answer yes? 🙂 They are sort of all my favorites for different reasons and scenarios. If you were to bend my arm I guess I would say flakes, er no pellets... yeah slow sinking pellets *ouch!* ok pellets. 😉 Easy to target feed with a pellet, they don't break up in the container as much as flake, and some third thing? But like you, I feed all 3 and don't see that changing anytime soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSamsell Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 41 minutes ago, Bay Area Aquatics said: I'm curious, as this seems to be a ongoing debate in the hobby. Do you prefer Flake Food, Pellet Food, or Granules? I own, buy, and feed all 3 types to my fish, because variety is the spice of life. BUT, Flake foods are hands down my favorite because of how versatile it is. If you had to pick one type, whats your favorite and why? If I had only one choice, it would be a very high quality flake food. The flakes would slowly cover more "edible" territory, in the tank, for everyone to take a bite, as the rest sinks to the substrate, for the bottom dwellers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbear Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 All 3 now I’m using hikari floating pellet krill flake and tetra granules with a supplement of wafers and frozen brine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GardenStateGoldfish Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 I have been doing a deep dive into the aquarium nutrition world and can share some youtube links if allowed, and let me start off saying my preference is flake food, but there is a lot of information out there that show flake food is not the best option, the way its made causes it to lose a lot of nutrition and it has parts of it that the fish aren't able to absorb, flakes also lose a lot of nutrition into the water very quickly once it hits the water, pellets are better then flakes apparently but there are other options better then pellets like frozen food. Ben ocharts episode 2 on fish nutrtion explains the waste/digestibility piece really well. Im still learned but really sad because I feed my fish like 5 different types of flake food. Womp womp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFins Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 I like feeding pellets more then anything. Because flakes will loose al of their nutrients after 5 seconds of introducing it into the water. There also easier to feed and the NLS has better quality then most other flake foods even xtreme. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 I feed it all. You can feed your fish what you think is the "best' food in the world but if they don't eat it, it might as well be saw dust. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostiesFishes Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I use all of the above. But if I had to pick just one it would be flake for the versatility of feeding . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subramn Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 i grind all of them into powder and drop them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanR Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I use all of the above. I try to feed a different food every day. Flake food is very versatile because it can even be crumbled up to feed to fry. I didn't have any fry food and a Molly caught be off guard and had some little ones. I promptly ordered Xtreme Nano from the Co-Op and in the meantime I crumbled some Krill Flakes and crumbled some Bug Bites Tropical. I would prefer the Flakes though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilveRx Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 So far flakes for my top/mid tier fish and sinking pellets for my corydoras. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonske Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I feed flakes, pellets, granules, tabs and I have no preference because most of the time I crush them all into a combined powdery mess. If I had to choose one, I would probably choose pellets with high greens content because those are a) good for my bigger goldfish; b) can be crushed for smaller omnivores/vegetarians; and c) added to carnivores' diet of mostly live and frozen foods. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy's Fish Den Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I feed flakes and pellets, but if I had to choose one I'd go with flake, as I can crush it up for smaller fish and fry and feed the bigger flakes to my bigger adult fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GardenStateGoldfish Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I admittedly am a huge flake fan, but the deeper I dive into this the bigger the no is to flakes unfortunately. I like how easy it is to feed everyone with thr flakes but the lack of nutrition in them does have me concerned about my water pigs I heard the same as you. That they lose most their nutrition into the water in about 5 to 7 seconds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo2o915 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 21 hours ago, Bay Area Aquatics said: I'm curious, as this seems to be a ongoing debate in the hobby. Do you prefer Flake Food, Pellet Food, or Granules? I own, buy, and feed all 3 types to my fish, because variety is the spice of life. BUT, Flake foods are hands down my favorite because of how versatile it is. If you had to pick one type, whats your favorite and why? Pellets and Flake food is my go too but also use granules 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChefConfit Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I feed flake every morning and rotate through a bunch of other foods for my night time feeding. I also skip feeding on Sundays, and every few weeks skip a few days in a row to encourage everyone to forage for food. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 much like the above poster, i feed many different foods. doesnt matter too much, other than it be something they actually eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varanidguy Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I'll feed it all but prefer pellets. More nutrition per bite and it goes farther in feeding the animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammaroon Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I feed all the above and rotate them to give the fish a bit of variety. The food they love most is live food: BBS and micro worms. I only have nano fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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