who feeds flake or pellet food?

[fungia]

i would like to get off frozen stuff, anyone feed flake or pellet? pros and cons?

 

[bleedingthought]

I just got off flakes, basically. Why would you want to quit frozen?

As far as flakes go, consider Ocean Nutrition. I don't feed the reef tank pellets, so no help there.

AFAIK, flakes pack more phosphates. They also go bad faster. And I think my fish might like frozen better too (the corals definitely do).

 

[Anonymous]

I feed frozen, pellets and flake.

I use the pellets in my autofeeder underneath the flake. The weight of the pellets insures that all of the food drops out when it is supposed too.

Louey

 

[fungia]

i want to use an auto feeder so no frozen.

louey, what kind of pellets and flake do you use?

 

[Anonymous]

I have used the long spirulina pellets that are more like sticks and round pellets. The round ones that I currently am using are by OSI.

The flake I use is also by OSI.

Anything OSI is usually good.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Ocean Nutrition makes a Formula One pellet food these days. My fish absolutely go ape over these, I'd recommend them.

 

[fungia]

thanks. one more question, are the pellets hard? i am using an auto feeder so i dont want my fish choking on rock hard food.

 

[bleedingthought]

Ocean Nutrition makes a Formula One pellet food these days. My fish absolutely go ape over these, I'd recommend them.

CJ, how's your tank been?

 

[Anonymous]

fungia wrote:

are the pellets hard

Yes, but the water does soften them up a bit.

Pellets aren't for smaller fish, like chromies and the like. Bigger fish gobble pellets up in one bite.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

CJ, how's your tank been?

Uneventful - just the way I like it
No new additions since the blue zooanthids around christmas, mostly just sitting back and watching the softies colonize every available inch of rock.

 

[Len]

I should try pellets too. But my fish would eat them up before they had a chance to soften. They are insane pigs.

 

[bleedingthought]

CJ, how's your tank been?

Uneventful - just the way I like it
No new additions since the blue zooanthids around christmas, mostly just sitting back and watching the softies colonize every available inch of rock.

You plan on adding anything else?

 

[Anonymous]

fungia wrote:

are the pellets hard

Yes, but the water does soften them up a bit.

Pellets aren't for smaller fish, like chromies and the like. Bigger fish gobble pellets up in one bite.

Louey

The Formula One pellets I mentioned are available in multiple sizes. The small ones really are pretty small, and my vanderbilt chromis' will cheerfully suck up a half dozen in one gulp given the opportunity. When I feed the pellets, they get scarfed up by the fish almost instantly so I doubt they have much chance to soften before being ingested. It's never caused the slightest difficulty though.

You plan on adding anything else?

Not really. If something really remarkable shows up I just might, but mostly I think things are set. Just a matter of letting what I've already got grow and fill in the holes.

 

[Len]

I just bought some ON F1 and F2 pellets with a Eheim feeder. I hope my fish like em.

 

[Reef Goalie]

I feed Frozen, Live and Flake.

Prime Reef Complete by Ocean Nutrition is the flake brand I use and the fish love it.

 

[Anonymous]

My fish won't eat the pellet. I feed frozen and flake.

 

[_Adrian_]

Ocean Nutrition makes a Formula One pellet food these days. My fish absolutely go ape over these, I'd recommend them.

Yup
thas what im feeding.
they have several different ones though...
i have 2 diffferent ones that i use:
Formula 2 - Soft & Moist pelets with Garlic -> mostly for new fist the entice to eat
Formula 1 - is what i use on a daily basis

 

[Len]

Unfortunately, only my tang and angel will eat the pellets, and no one wants the flake. I'm going to have to condition them. They're too accustomed to frozen foods.

 

[Anonymous]

I use frozen, flake and pellet. My fish are pigs and eat anything I put in the tank. The PBT leading the charge.

 

[fcmatt]

i use flake, frozen and pellet.

tetra marine flakes
oraglo pellets
and sally's brine shrimp

but then i feed smaller clowns, not reef pigs like tangs