Easy Community Floating Pellets Are Here!

[Zenzo]

With the recent launch of the Aquarium Co-Op Magic Nano Feed, I was very excited on what was to come. My smaller fish and shrimp LOVE the new Magic, but as many of you know, I keep a lot of medium-sized to larger fish as well (primarily cichlids). Well, the wait is over! The new Aquarium Co-Op Easy Community Floating Pellets is here! This new food has almost the same formula and ingredients as the Magic Nano Feed (slightly changed for this form factor and floating characteristics), and is going to be perfect for my medium to larger fish. I am especially excited that these new pellets float, as it will help to keep less food out of the substrate and hopefully help more fish get to it.  I am ordering mine today!

 

[Randy]

Yup, like the Magic Nano Feed this is another solid food choice!

[GoofyGarra]

Just a little website thing, the food does not appear with the other ACO foods, I had to scroll all the way down on the food list to find it.

[Lynaea]

What size are these pellets?

[Guppysnail]

Oh crumbs!   I placed my order for Magic Nano over a week ago.  Sigh.  Looks like I’ll be finding more things I “need” to make another full order sooner than expected. 🤣

I’m very pleased with the magic nano.  More importantly my juvenile fish love love it.   

[Cory]

9 minutes ago, GoofyGarra said:

Just a little website thing, the food does not appear with the other ACO foods, I had to scroll all the way down on the food list to find it.

Takes a little bit to sort. New products go to the top, but the sorter for products to push down out of stocks and new products up, only happens 4x a day. Unless I manually do it. I hit the button to reorganize them now, so should be up top soon.

1 minute ago, Guppysnail said:

Oh crumbs!   I placed my order for Magic Nano over a week ago.  Sigh.  Looks like I’ll be finding more things I “need” to make another full order sooner than expected. 🤣

I’m very pleased with the magic nano.  More importantly my juvenile fish love love it.   

Lol, we have the same problem.... Except I did it by container load.... In theory these two products should have been spaced out by like 2 months. Ha! Port hold ups, changed that to 2 weeks I guess.

5 minutes ago, Lynaea said:

What size are these pellets?

I'll ask the manufacturer officially and I'll see if I can measure it later today.

[GoofyGarra]

Cool to see the new food out! I will definitely need to order soon for some Magic Fry and now the pellets.

8 minutes ago, Cory said:

Takes a little bit to sort. New products go to the top, but the sorter for products to push down out of stocks and new products up, only happens 4x a day. Unless I manually do it. I hit the button to reorganize them now, so should be up top soon.

Fixed now, thanks!

[Cory]

The easy community pellet is step up from our Magic Nano Food. If your fish went crazy for the magic Nano, they'll go crazy for this too. But this is sized for community fish instead of nano fish. It floats on top of the water for a super long time. Same ingredients in slightly different ratios to get that super long top of water floating time. Loved by Livebearers, medium sized tetras, angelfish, cichlids, and anything that'll feed from the top of the water. Being that this pellet floats for so long, it's great to feed if you're trying to reduce the snail count in your tank as it doesn't give them much access to eat it.

[knee]

Glad I didn't checkout yesterday. 

[Zenzo]

On 11/19/2024 at 9:29 AM, knee said:

Glad I didn't checkout yesterday. 

You got lucky! I just ordered 3 jars of it. I am looking forward to feeding it to my cichlids, community tanks, and even my betta. 

[knee]

5 minutes ago, Zenzo said:

You got lucky! I just ordered 3 jars of it. I am looking forward to feeding it to my cichlids, community tanks, and even my betta. 

Will be  checking out today 🙂

 

I was looking at the description of the floating pellet, and on the bottom part it says that the pellet has salmon but I don't see it in the ingredients. Just wondering if the pellet actually has salmon in it.

[Guppysnail]

7 minutes ago, Zenzo said:

You got lucky! I just ordered 3 jars of it. I am looking forward to feeding it to my cichlids, community tanks, and even my betta. 

 

7 minutes ago, Zenzo said:

You got lucky! I just ordered 3 jars of it. I am looking forward to feeding it to my cichlids, community tanks, and even my betta. 

@Zenzo please share if you have any luck with dwarf cichlids enjoying this.  My only DC that will surface eat are my German Blue rams.   My apistos ,Ivannacara bimaculata, Nannacara anomala etc maybe are not the brightest and wait until everything falls and eat painfully slow unless it’s live food. If you could share how long it holds up for foragers to find I would greatly appreciate it.  

[Cory]

24 minutes ago, knee said:

Will be  checking out today 🙂

 

I was looking at the description of the floating pellet, and on the bottom part it says that the pellet has salmon but I don't see it in the ingredients. Just wondering if the pellet actually has salmon in it.

No Salmon, that was left from copying another product's description as a template to make this one. Lots of back end work we can save time on like tags and layout structure etc. That last picture just slipped through.

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[Zenzo]

On 11/19/2024 at 9:41 AM, Guppysnail said:

 

@Zenzo please share if you have any luck with dwarf cichlids enjoying this.  My only DC that will surface eat are my German Blue rams.   My apistos ,Ivannacara bimaculata, Nannacara anomala etc maybe are not the brightest and wait until everything falls and eat painfully slow unless it’s live food. If you could share how long it holds up for foragers to find I would greatly appreciate it.  

If it is anything like the Magic Nano Feed, I feel like my dwarf cichlids will love it. I tried the magic nano in tanks with apistos (because of smaller fish in the tank), and they were all over it. These will just be bigger bites! 

[Cory]

1 hour ago, Lynaea said:

What size are these pellets?

With my calipers on my desk. 0.9mm is the food size. Which means 900 microns

[JoeQ]

Couldn't resist ordering the nano pellets last week and absolutely love love love them! And even tho the community pellets were just released (a week later) I quickly ordered them as well. Extra shipping be da**ed, I NEED MY CO-OP PELLETS!! 😂

Edited November 19 by JoeQ

[Cory]

19 minutes ago, JoeQ said:

e nano pellets last week and absolutely love love love them! And even tho the community pellets were just released (a week later) I quickly ordered them as well. Extra shipping be da**ed, I NEED MY CO-OP PELLETS!! 😂

I appreciate that. I hated the timing of these releases, but we couldn't control the ports. I love that people believe in us enough to pay the shipping a week or two later. I personally think these are grand slam foods.

[Riiz]

I just purchased a small group of Pearl gourami, what a happy coincidence. This looks like the ticket for angelfish and gourami or anything that is a top feeder, and you wont be feeding the pest snail population at the same time.

[Cory]

How are people liking the Easy Community Pellets? Some have probably already received it. I feed it more by weight that the Magic Small Fish Feed. But I use both daily pretty heavily.

[JoeQ]

9 hours ago, Cory said:

How are people liking the Easy Community Pellets? Some have probably already received it. I feed it more by weight that the Magic Small Fish Feed. But I use both daily pretty heavily.

I've only fed it a few times, but so far it has gone over well with my target audience (A medium sized angel fish). Which was kind of surprising cause she is not big on smaller graduals.

 

As for my other fish (guppys, honey gouramis & rummy nose tetras) they are more enthusiastic about the nano. IMO the community pellets are slightly too big for them. 

 

With that said, I'd still like to see these pellets a bit larger. I also have an unruly pack of Diamond tetras who are like seagulls and quickly eat any thing I feed that fits on their mouths! 

[Cory]

3 hours ago, JoeQ said:

I've only fed it a few times, but so far it has gone over well with my target audience (A medium sized angel fish). Which was kind of surprising cause she is not big on smaller graduals.

 

As for my other fish (guppys, honey gouramis & rummy nose tetras) they are more enthusiastic about the nano. IMO the community pellets are slightly too big for them. 

 

With that said, I'd still like to see these pellets a bit larger. I also have an unruly pack of Diamond tetras who are like seagulls and quickly eat any thing I feed that fits on their mouths! 

Thanks for sharing your experience with it. I think at this time we are unlikely to make other sizes of pellets. I think this leads to "bloat" in the product line for us and stores. Something like hikari, you end up having baby, mini, medium, large, which is 4 different foods, then you have the sinking versions which makes 8. THEN you have multiple package sizes, at 4oz and 8oz you'd have 16 different packages and stores get overwhelmed. I believe one of our biggest strengths is keeping narrow product lines so users know which items to buy and stores don't have to worry about which one is going to sell. This strategy might only cover say 70% of the market, which leaves room at the table for other brands to fill in if needed.

I believe next we'll have 1lb sizes early next year, and I have it on my list to work on some type of food for bottom feeders.

[Mississippi fish guy]

How quickly do the pellets float to the surface? It seems most of my fish that I keep in my 55 don’t really like to come to the surface though I suspect they would chase the pellets up there and possibly get used to eating in the surface.

[Cory]

1 hour ago, Mississippi fish guy said:

How quickly do the pellets float to the surface? It seems most of my fish that I keep in my 55 don’t really like to come to the surface though I suspect they would chase the pellets up there and possibly get used to eating in the surface.

I'm not sure if I can quantify it. I will say most fish that aren't only bottom dwellers adapt pretty quick., Even my school of clown loaches swarm to the surface.

[rshockley]

19 hours ago, Cory said:

How are people liking the Easy Community Pellets? Some have probably already received it. I feed it more by weight that the Magic Small Fish Feed. But I use both daily pretty heavily.

Using both daily across pretty much all of my tanks.  Only fish I have that don't seem to go nuts for it are the ones that just don't like top feeding.  Even my clown loaches come to the surface for it.  Both the easy pellets and magic nano are easily becoming staples for me now.

[Cory]

24 minutes ago, rshockley said:

Using both daily across pretty much all of my tanks.  Only fish I have that don't seem to go nuts for it are the ones that just don't like top feeding.  Even my clown loaches come to the surface for it.  Both the easy pellets and magic nano are easily becoming staples for me now.

Good to hear. On the short list would be a food for the fish that want to feed on the bottom of tank.