Skipping all the rest of the “best fish food” videos because they are all basically ads pushing products from content creators. That’s why I love your content and can’t wait to finish this video!!!!
Omega One flakes, shrimp pellets, & veggie rounds (for the ingredients), Fluval Bug Bites (for the ingredients), San Francisco Bay Brand freeze dried mysis shrimp, blood worms, & krill (as crushed up treats), SFBB and OO frozen blood worms, brine/mysis shrimp and emerald entree (to add variety during the week). I tend to purchase local, either M&P or big box. Yes, variety IS the spice of fish life!
I think people sleep on Tetra foods because of their move into big box pet stores in the 2000's but they make good foods, and many of them are made in Germany. I worked many years in a shop and we fed a lot of foods, but the Tetra color granules were a constant over the years (and I fed it to everything). I crush it up to a finer granule/powder for juvenile rainbows and they love it, in addition to BBS of course.
Can you do a new video on a community tank? Maybe some kind of all in one food Cherry shrimp, pigmy Cory’s, danio fish species, guppies, tetras and Otto’s and mystery snails. It can be rough feeding multiple foods for multiple fish. I’m thinking about grinding up flakes and hikari algae wafers with some fluval bug bites and feeding that all at once. I would love your output ❤
I was excited to try the Extreme krill flake food but most of my fish won't touch it. The angels, dwarf rainbow's, silver tip tetras hate it. The guppies eat it but they pretty much eat anything. I personally have success with fluval bug bites, cobalts nano pellet and tetra color flake as far as dry food goes. I'll have to try some you covered in the video. Thank's Bentley!
Wow, you're the first one I've heard that from. I've yet to try it out, but that's interesting. I love the bug bites line and they just released a bug bites flake too
Nice video, I personally love a good quality Chinese buffet lol. My fish are fed a buffet of fish food as well, their favorite is Ocean Nutritions brine shrimp flakes despite of other more pricey food. My mix is 50% brine shrimp flake, 10% small bug bites, 10% sprirulina20, 10% freeze-dried blood worms, 10% Ocean nut discus flakes, 5% seachem chlorella flakes and 5% tetra granules. Bottom feeders get tropical algae wafers/NLS wafers/ocean nutrition algae wafers/hikari sinking wafers/cobalt shrimp pellets. The severums get hikari cichlid gold/freeze dried mealworms and a scoop of the buffet. Once a month I make repashy because im lazy and all fish get hikari frozen cube blood worm/daphnia and sally's brine shrimp after water changes. I also give them san Francisco bay brand freeze dried food assortment and sera o nip for treat. I also have a big can of Wardley goldfish flakes that I use for fishless cycles and is a favorite of my lone molly- go figure huh.
I become I big fan of yourfishstuff product. My African cichlids and my Oscars go crazy for this food. I used the flake and pallet food. My next order I'm going try there bug and shrimp pallets
Great recommendation, Bentley. Just got the Supervit flakes. Even my pickiest fish love it. Chocolate gourami approved! And they really feel like high quality flakes when crumbled into smaller bits.
I make a giant mix of that exact same spirulina flake, Hikari blood worms, Hikari daphnia, tetra granules, fluval tropical bug bites, vibra bites, mysis shrimp and sera flake it all goes in a large can of that spirulina flake lol. I also use Hikari tubifex worms, and brine shrimp as supplement with sera o nip and tetra crisps and fluval cichild bug bites for the bigger fish. I feel,like I sound like a crazy person but my fish seem to love the mix.
This was a fantastic video on foods....you have a wonderful variety of healthy foods. Im gonna have to get me some of those now. I feed a wide variety of foods too, I think its healthier for them
Nice vid, very informative. I was very surprised when I tried the Tetra Color Granules a few months ago. I had been feeding a mix of frozen, hikari dry, and a few others. The consistent growth and healthy look after using Tetra color consistently made me a believer. I still give them a variety, but the mainstay is now Tetra Color. EDIT: Having said that, I think I'm going to try a couple of the foods you mentioned that I haven't tried yet, especially the pleco/cory stuff.
My fish LOVE Tetra Color flakes! Sometimes I think they prefer it to frozen foods lol. I keep guppies and as you know they are little piggies. I can't get food down to my cories so I feed them bug bites pleco. It sinks quickly and they really like it. The food my fish like the most it repashy. They go NUTS when I feed it. I got my first pleco two weeks ago and she loves repashy bottom scratcher. I pour it over driftwood and she goes to town lol. We feed very similar stuff. It makes me feel good because I'm new to the hobby and I wasn't sure I was feeding right. But I know you know what you're doing so thank you so much for sharing what you feed.
Awesome video Bentley! I feed alot of Bug Bites Tropical, Medium size, Bottom Feeder; Omega One's Frozen Blood Worms, Flakes, Veggie Pellets; and then Repashy Grub Pie. I also feed green beans to my plecos and snails. They seem to love all of these foods.
you where asking about the deworming flake, Angels Plus has 3 different kinds of it. I never tried any of them but when you mentioned the flake food it must have been in back of my mind because I knew right away where to look. Hope that helps
For medicated fish food I used ron’s Cichlids medicated fish food. It’s really good stuff. It’s not something that you can just give your fish. You have to prepare it and then you also have to refrigerate it, but it was great and it worked……I also use brain shrimp regularly … then I get really crazy and I mix up in a coffee grinder chlorella powder, sara fry food, rice bran, sera Immune pro, Black Soldier Fly Larvae. The reason I do this in the coffee grinder is because I put these in my auto feeders for all of my fish tanks. Black Soldier Fly Larvae has a lot of oil so you do need to add more of the algae powder and I also have been known to throw in dried egg shells to absorb some of the oils so they don’t clump up so much and then of course the other fish foods help…..anyone reading this probably thinks I am completely insane, but this is really good fish food and fish Love it, it’s really super cheap believe it or not…..
Great video with excellent information. I use Hikari mainly for Betta and Community pellets not because it is sometimes cheaper but because I've always used it. I tried some Omega One Veggie wafers and the shrimp seemed to like them but not my otos. They also seemed to spike my nitrate levels where the Hikari never did.
Based on the ingredients, I've recently moved away from Tetra and Hikari which I've used for years in favor of Northfin and Aquatic Foods Inc. For instance, the top ingredients in Tetra Flakes are Fish Meal, Dried Yeast, Ground Brown Rice, Shrimp Meal, Wheat Gluten, Oat Meal, Fish Oil, Potato Protein, Dehulled Soybean Meal, and Soybean Oil. In Northfin Cichlid they are Whole Antarctic Krill Meal, High Omega-3 (DHA) Herring Meal, Whole Sardine Meal, Wheat Flour, Kelp, Spirulina, Garlic.
I actually like the Wardley's shrimp pellets! I'm sure there are better brands out there, but since I feed such a huge variety (and these only 1-2 times a week) they work just fine. My catfish and loaches love them!
I use TCT Granules now and have used flakes before but moved to granules. I have a Cylinder Brine Shrimp Hatchery it works really well for small batches. I need to get into vinegar eels.
There is one brand of flakes i dislike and its not because of the ingredients its the thickness of the flakes, its Omega One they make their flakes so thin they crumble up into a powder, my fish try to eat them but there's only so many crumbs they could eat before they sink to the bottom and dirty up the tank.
Bentley, please explain your dislike for Wardley. I don’t feed Wardley, just curious why you feel it is so bad. Tropical is good food, so is Repashy. Dr Bassleer and Ebo Aquaristik are by far the best around for my hypancistrus. Northfin is great for cichlids and does live up to the hype.
I love NORTHFIN! The co-op food is great when you have nano fish. The only downside to the co-op food is that the smallest bits might not be eaten. Would you agree that in general flake have more binder than granules?
I have a very off topic question. I have a water box 10 and I want to carpet the bottom. My substrate is fluval stratum and my fertilizer is easy green for for the other plants. My question is would the finnex FugeRay planted+ clip on, be adequate lighting to carpet Montecarlo or dwarf baby tears or even dwarf hair grass? You seem to know your way around plants judging by your rewards😂 Thanks a lot.
I don't know the specific lumen or par on the planted clip light, but I think if you're going the level of a waterbox aquarium, I would spend the extra bit to get the Fluval Nano. Yes it's about $40 more, but you get more control, lumen, and the various functions in the app that just make it much nicer for something like a high-grade rimless aquarium. Dwarf baby tears needs a LOT of light to carpet well, monte carlo not as much, but still prefers good light to get a solid carpet - so I would be letting the plant choice dictate my light. Just my two cents on this one.
Bentley Pascoe yeah your right thanks a lot for the input I’m gonna go with the fluval nano and I really do appreciate your opinion. You are one of the most inspiring Chanel’s I have watched. But anyway thanks for the help
I prefer NLS community pellet. My fish on the other hand, clearly prefer Bugbites and Aquarium Co-Op Fry food. Just bought some Sera flakes, haven't tried it yet. I feed many of NLS and Omega One lines. I don't think I feed Hikari anymore. Expanding into all the Bugbites flavors and maybe try Repashy one of these days. I'm hoping Cory is able to make a bigger pellet of his fry food. Every tank gets at least two foods at a single feeding. Sometimes three or for!
Nice reviews Bentley! I use bug bites, omega one color flake, the fry food from aquarium co-op, sera products and the LRB special (which my fish love). I don’t have a favorite as I try to give them a good balanced diet.
I enjoyed your take on it! I find live brine shrimp is best as all live foods are. Then second on frozen. I will disagree on one thing, I think earthworm flakes for freshwater livebearers is excellent! I don't really see anything else I would not agree with for the most part. I love Bug Bites as well.
I like to share my lunch with my fish. so I often give them stuff like hard boiled egg yolk, canned salmon, spinach, zucchini, roast chicken, sweet peas, cucumbers, multi grain bread crumbs etc. in rotation so they get a balance of protein and vegetable. some days I just feed them Bug Bites tropical formula & Sera San Nature Color flakes. one serving of protein & some veggies later to balance things out ..
Live food is best food. Baby brine isn't too bad once you get in the routine. Microworms and grindals are pretty easy too. I also feed frozen daphnia and cyclops. Bug Bites is my favorite granule. Would love to try some Repashy. Great video dude :)
@Chewy Ltd Hey Chewy! Yeah raising up peacock gudgoen fry was what got me into live foods. Once you figure them out though, it's free amazing food indefinitely with a little maintenance.
Skip the Rephasy, it's a huge mess. I liked what I read about it so I ordered a decent sized tub of it. I saved the trays my frozen food comes in so I mixed up the Rephasy per the instructions and placed in the empty trays so I had a size to judge how much I'm feeding. I fed 3 different tanks all with the same results. I am filtering over 10 times tank size every hour with huge canister filters from Fluval and Sunsun. The food broke apart almost instantly into such tiny pieces the fish didn't really bother with it. It clouded the water up for a good hour, even with my crazy filtration. The fish ranged from community Rainbows, Tetras, Loaches to all types of African Cichlids. I have some blue acara fry I might see if they will take to it. As soon as it did this I thought I must have ordered a fry food by mistake, but I didn't. The food itself is made with good stuff, maybe I did something wrong but I don't believe this is the case as many others have had the same results. If someone is close to Mount Airy, NC and you want it, stop by and it's yours, I bought a large size like I do for all my foods. Later
New watcher...and subscriber!! Thanks for this vid, great information! I’m a fan of Omega One right now for our community tanks. Live foods are our next trial.
I thought i had a lot of food for my Fish. Variation is key I'd say,like you do. I use frozen brine shrimp besides dry foods. A question for you : rainbows fry, I feed the first two weeks sera micron and after that a powder that's an Artemia replacement. Tiny bloodworms they go nuts for when they are as big as the little bloodworm. After that it's a Rainbowfish so everything that fits their mouths. To keep things fresh I use most dry foods and once a week frozen. What do you feed rainbow fry after the sera micron?
I go to daily baby brine and still use a little micron until they can take something like Co-Op fry food or powdered up flake of my various types I like/have on hand.
Hi ,Bentley, my fish love cobalt fish food and it has prebiotic in it ,,but only found on the internet, eny way, your fan love your videos, see you on the next one
Here is a link to the fry food: bit.ly/32Inu1m As for the pellet food, a little birdy told me right after I released this that the floating pellet is going away and to "watch for something new soon" - so I'm guessing they have something better coming ASAP.
Lots of hikari cichlid pellets and micro pellets, my Africans get north fin veggie pellets. Dainichi koi and cichlid pellets. Cobalt flake and sera nip tabs. I to am looking for a medicated food.
This video might be getting a little older, but it's still very helpful. Bentley, would mixing meds into a Repashy food be effective? Wondering about what boiling water would do to the efficacy of the meds.
What I would do is begin to mix up the rapashy and as it starts to cool down and thicken then I would add my medicine and really quickly stir it together so that it's not women in the water is at its hottest.
Hey @BentleyPascoe! Watched this video way too late… is the Tropical brand still being distributed? I haven’t been able to find it on Amazon or at other local stores.
@@BentleyPascoe Oh I thought I heard that the fry food lasts over a year. And since you feed Repashy about once a month I assumed a bottle was lasting a while. Perhaps a bad assumption.
@@greenthumbaquariums1185 most of the food lasts a lot longer than we think. In the case of rapashy I make fairly large batches and then only buy the smaller tins so it works out. I've yet to see anything to give me evidence of issues.
Thanks for that Wardley's statement! seems anything Hartz make is poison. I had so many plug ups and pineconing in my fish and pond fish when I fed that in my more early on days, I lost a lot of really nice pond comets to that awful wardley's. I've never fed it since and have not had that issue since. bait worm nightcrawlers are also a good and live food, my guppies, platies, rope fish, oscar, goldfish, plecos all of them LOVE nightcrawlers!
Bentley does the food you purchase in bulk come sealed under the lid? I remember a Cory stream or video where he said fish food loses it's potency (nutrients) quickly and implied using it up or throwing it out within a couple months.
I bought some Sera O' Nip Tabs and not one of my fish, whether the Corydoras or Panda Garras or any other of my fish will eat it. Same goes for the Rapashi, most of them will not touch it.
You should try Kens Ultra Intense Spirulina. My Limias and Swords and guppies love itt. Only like eight bucks a pound too, for two 8oz bags. iirc. www.kensfish.com Kens hsa alot of their own label foods. Im useing their UIS flakes and their 1mm green pelltes adn Brineshrimp flakes. They prob have around fifty diff blends of flake and pelllets. Evem fry pellets in teh micro range with like 55% protein. Sorry if i went on too long. lol, its a good place, if u havent yet, check them out.
I do have an affiliate link through them (I get a small commission for the channel for any orders through a link), but in the case of the foods I use and literally every product I have from the Co-Op, I have paid for them out of my own pocket with the only discount received being through my fish club (GSAS) back before they did the changes that brought the price cuts. The only items I have received free from the Co-Op are the red shirt (public event one Cory gives away to everyone) and a few of the tiny sample sizes the store gives out free for Vibrabites. Every item in this video I paid for, and would buy again. Long answer I know, but I need to be specific as I can see I forgot to edit my description on this video - cheers!
Absolutely nothing wrong with Tetra. The best Tetra food is pro energy. I prefer Sera Vipan but I fed Tetra for many years. Word of note, the food the fish go crazy for doesn't necessarily mean it's the best. Also ingredients are not the only important thing as most fish foods can have great ingredients but the way they are processed is what matters.
Why do you say that? It is, most commonly various ground meals and fillers extruded and cooked off in one way or another. I've watch some companies MAKE very fine powder food, so I'm curious what specifically you mean.
Great video, what's your opinion on frozen foods?
Love them, going to do a separate video on frozen soon!
Skipping all the rest of the “best fish food” videos because they are all basically ads pushing products from content creators. That’s why I love your content and can’t wait to finish this video!!!!
Omega One flakes, shrimp pellets, & veggie rounds (for the ingredients), Fluval Bug Bites (for the ingredients), San Francisco Bay Brand freeze dried mysis shrimp, blood worms, & krill (as crushed up treats), SFBB and OO frozen blood worms, brine/mysis shrimp and emerald entree (to add variety during the week). I tend to purchase local, either M&P or big box. Yes, variety IS the spice of fish life!
My favorite at the moment is the hikari freeze dried blood worms, enjoy how long it floats and everything I keep loves the stuff.
Bentley is the bomb! Always love your videos. Keep up the good work.
I think people sleep on Tetra foods because of their move into big box pet stores in the 2000's but they make good foods, and many of them are made in Germany. I worked many years in a shop and we fed a lot of foods, but the Tetra color granules were a constant over the years (and I fed it to everything). I crush it up to a finer granule/powder for juvenile rainbows and they love it, in addition to BBS of course.
Can you do a new video on a community tank? Maybe some kind of all in one food
Cherry shrimp, pigmy Cory’s, danio fish species, guppies, tetras and Otto’s and mystery snails. It can be rough feeding multiple foods for multiple fish. I’m thinking about grinding up flakes and hikari algae wafers with some fluval bug bites and feeding that all at once. I would love your output ❤
I was excited to try the Extreme krill flake food but most of my fish won't touch it. The angels, dwarf rainbow's, silver tip tetras hate it. The guppies eat it but they pretty much eat anything. I personally have success with fluval bug bites, cobalts nano pellet and tetra color flake as far as dry food goes. I'll have to try some you covered in the video. Thank's Bentley!
Wow, you're the first one I've heard that from. I've yet to try it out, but that's interesting. I love the bug bites line and they just released a bug bites flake too
Nice video, I personally love a good quality Chinese buffet lol. My fish are fed a buffet of fish food as well, their favorite is Ocean Nutritions brine shrimp flakes despite of other more pricey food. My mix is 50% brine shrimp flake, 10% small bug bites, 10% sprirulina20, 10% freeze-dried blood worms, 10% Ocean nut discus flakes, 5% seachem chlorella flakes and 5% tetra granules. Bottom feeders get tropical algae wafers/NLS wafers/ocean nutrition algae wafers/hikari sinking wafers/cobalt shrimp pellets. The severums get hikari cichlid gold/freeze dried mealworms and a scoop of the buffet. Once a month I make repashy because im lazy and all fish get hikari frozen cube blood worm/daphnia and sally's brine shrimp after water changes. I also give them san Francisco bay brand freeze dried food assortment and sera o nip for treat. I also have a big can of Wardley goldfish flakes that I use for fishless cycles and is a favorite of my lone molly- go figure huh.
I become I big fan of yourfishstuff product. My African cichlids and my Oscars go crazy for this food. I used the flake and pallet food. My next order I'm going try there bug and shrimp pallets
Bentley you terrify me. How the hell are you so damn cheerful that early on a Saturday? J/K hope you have a good day
Bob the sponge balances his chakra
Great recommendation, Bentley. Just got the Supervit flakes. Even my pickiest fish love it. Chocolate gourami approved! And they really feel like high quality flakes when crumbled into smaller bits.
Good to hear! I love the stuff.
I make a giant mix of that exact same spirulina flake, Hikari blood worms, Hikari daphnia, tetra granules, fluval tropical bug bites, vibra bites, mysis shrimp and sera flake it all goes in a large can of that spirulina flake lol. I also use Hikari tubifex worms, and brine shrimp as supplement with sera o nip and tetra crisps and fluval cichild bug bites for the bigger fish. I feel,like I sound like a crazy person but my fish seem to love the mix.
If the fish love it, you're not crazy - you're a genius
The food your fish eats is the best
This was a fantastic video on foods....you have a wonderful variety of healthy foods. Im gonna have to get me some of those now. I feed a wide variety of foods too, I think its healthier for them
Glad you enjoyed it and we're on the same page - variety is the spice of life!
Nice vid, very informative. I was very surprised when I tried the Tetra Color Granules a few months ago. I had been feeding a mix of frozen, hikari dry, and a few others. The consistent growth and healthy look after using Tetra color consistently made me a believer. I still give them a variety, but the mainstay is now Tetra Color. EDIT: Having said that, I think I'm going to try a couple of the foods you mentioned that I haven't tried yet, especially the pleco/cory stuff.
My fish LOVE Tetra Color flakes! Sometimes I think they prefer it to frozen foods lol. I keep guppies and as you know they are little piggies. I can't get food down to my cories so I feed them bug bites pleco. It sinks quickly and they really like it. The food my fish like the most it repashy. They go NUTS when I feed it. I got my first pleco two weeks ago and she loves repashy bottom scratcher. I pour it over driftwood and she goes to town lol. We feed very similar stuff. It makes me feel good because I'm new to the hobby and I wasn't sure I was feeding right. But I know you know what you're doing so thank you so much for sharing what you feed.
Awesome video Bentley! I feed alot of Bug Bites Tropical, Medium size, Bottom Feeder; Omega One's Frozen Blood Worms, Flakes, Veggie Pellets; and then Repashy Grub Pie. I also feed green beans to my plecos and snails. They seem to love all of these foods.
you where asking about the deworming flake, Angels Plus has 3 different kinds of it. I never tried any of them but when you mentioned the flake food it must have been in back of my mind because I knew right away where to look. Hope that helps
Thanks, I'll give it look!
For medicated fish food I used ron’s Cichlids medicated fish food. It’s really good stuff. It’s not something that you can just give your fish. You have to prepare it and then you also have to refrigerate it, but it was great and it worked……I also use brain shrimp regularly … then I get really crazy and I mix up in a coffee grinder chlorella powder, sara fry food, rice bran, sera Immune pro, Black Soldier Fly Larvae. The reason I do this in the coffee grinder is because I put these in my auto feeders for all of my fish tanks. Black Soldier Fly Larvae has a lot of oil so you do need to add more of the algae powder and I also have been known to throw in dried egg shells to absorb some of the oils so they don’t clump up so much and then of course the other fish foods help…..anyone reading this probably thinks I am completely insane, but this is really good fish food and fish Love it, it’s really super cheap believe it or not…..
Great video with excellent information. I use Hikari mainly for Betta and Community pellets not because it is sometimes cheaper but because I've always used it. I tried some Omega One Veggie wafers and the shrimp seemed to like them but not my otos. They also seemed to spike my nitrate levels where the Hikari never did.
Based on the ingredients, I've recently moved away from Tetra and Hikari which I've used for years in favor of Northfin and Aquatic Foods Inc.
For instance, the top ingredients in Tetra Flakes are Fish Meal, Dried Yeast, Ground Brown Rice, Shrimp Meal, Wheat Gluten, Oat Meal, Fish Oil, Potato Protein, Dehulled Soybean Meal, and Soybean Oil.
In Northfin Cichlid they are Whole Antarctic Krill Meal, High Omega-3 (DHA) Herring Meal, Whole Sardine Meal, Wheat Flour, Kelp, Spirulina, Garlic.
Thank you so much for sharing this very good info I really enjoy your videos 💯👍
Good info. There are so many options so it’s good to see what people are using.
I've been using many of the Hikari brand foods. But like you, I do try to mix food around.
Nice in depth vid. Sera also make tabs that wood chips in it for your plecos
I actually like the Wardley's shrimp pellets! I'm sure there are better brands out there, but since I feed such a huge variety (and these only 1-2 times a week) they work just fine. My catfish and loaches love them!
I use TCT Granules now and have used flakes before but moved to granules. I have a Cylinder Brine Shrimp Hatchery it works really well for small batches. I need to get into vinegar eels.
Thanks for your fair assessments uninfluenced by bias.
I like using hikari foods seem to be good quality and priced right
I use some flake, some algae wafers and a mixture of all the frozen food!
Awesome vids man
Very informative keep up the great work
There is one brand of flakes i dislike and its not because of the ingredients its the thickness of the flakes, its Omega One they make their flakes so thin they crumble up into a powder, my fish try to eat them but there's only so many crumbs they could eat before they sink to the bottom and dirty up the tank.
Bentley, please explain your dislike for Wardley. I don’t feed Wardley, just curious why you feel it is so bad. Tropical is good food, so is Repashy. Dr Bassleer and Ebo Aquaristik are by far the best around for my hypancistrus. Northfin is great for cichlids and does live up to the hype.
Wardley has for a long time, unless this has changed, been more fillers than anything else and using too much non-animal (aka soy) proteins.
I love NORTHFIN! The co-op food is great when you have nano fish. The only downside to the co-op food is that the smallest bits might not be eaten. Would you agree that in general flake have more binder than granules?
Not necessarily.
I have a very off topic question.
I have a water box 10 and I want to carpet the bottom.
My substrate is fluval stratum and my fertilizer is easy green for for the other plants.
My question is would the finnex FugeRay planted+ clip on, be adequate lighting to carpet Montecarlo or dwarf baby tears or even dwarf hair grass?
You seem to know your way around plants judging by your rewards😂
Thanks a lot.
I don't know the specific lumen or par on the planted clip light, but I think if you're going the level of a waterbox aquarium, I would spend the extra bit to get the Fluval Nano. Yes it's about $40 more, but you get more control, lumen, and the various functions in the app that just make it much nicer for something like a high-grade rimless aquarium. Dwarf baby tears needs a LOT of light to carpet well, monte carlo not as much, but still prefers good light to get a solid carpet - so I would be letting the plant choice dictate my light. Just my two cents on this one.
Bentley Pascoe yeah your right thanks a lot for the input I’m gonna go with the fluval nano and I really do appreciate your opinion.
You are one of the most inspiring Chanel’s I have watched.
But anyway thanks for the help
@@aceaquatics2596 Thank you so much for the compliment - I really hope you enjoy your Waterbox tank, they look gorgeous!
I prefer NLS community pellet. My fish on the other hand, clearly prefer Bugbites and Aquarium Co-Op Fry food. Just bought some Sera flakes, haven't tried it yet. I feed many of NLS and Omega One lines. I don't think I feed Hikari anymore. Expanding into all the Bugbites flavors and maybe try Repashy one of these days. I'm hoping Cory is able to make a bigger pellet of his fry food. Every tank gets at least two foods at a single feeding. Sometimes three or for!
Nice reviews Bentley! I use bug bites, omega one color flake, the fry food from aquarium co-op, sera products and the LRB special (which my fish love). I don’t have a favorite as I try to give them a good balanced diet.
I enjoyed your take on it! I find live brine shrimp is best as all live foods are. Then second on frozen. I will disagree on one thing, I think earthworm flakes for freshwater livebearers is excellent! I don't really see anything else I would not agree with for the most part. I love Bug Bites as well.
I like to share my lunch with my fish. so I often give them stuff like hard boiled egg yolk, canned salmon, spinach, zucchini, roast chicken, sweet peas, cucumbers, multi grain bread crumbs etc. in rotation so they get a balance of protein and vegetable. some days I just feed them Bug Bites tropical formula & Sera San Nature Color flakes. one serving of protein & some veggies later to balance things out ..
ps. there favorite is roast chicken .. lol :)
oh. I forgot. my plecos LOVE French cut green beans ..
Live food is best food. Baby brine isn't too bad once you get in the routine. Microworms and grindals are pretty easy too. I also feed frozen daphnia and cyclops. Bug Bites is my favorite granule. Would love to try some Repashy. Great video dude :)
@Chewy Ltd Hey Chewy! Yeah raising up peacock gudgoen fry was what got me into live foods. Once you figure them out though, it's free amazing food indefinitely with a little maintenance.
Skip the Rephasy, it's a huge mess. I liked what I read about it so I ordered a decent sized tub of it. I saved the trays my frozen food comes in so I mixed up the Rephasy per the instructions and placed in the empty trays so I had a size to judge how much I'm feeding. I fed 3 different tanks all with the same results. I am filtering over 10 times tank size every hour with huge canister filters from Fluval and Sunsun. The food broke apart almost instantly into such tiny pieces the fish didn't really bother with it. It clouded the water up for a good hour, even with my crazy filtration. The fish ranged from community Rainbows, Tetras, Loaches to all types of African Cichlids. I have some blue acara fry I might see if they will take to it. As soon as it did this I thought I must have ordered a fry food by mistake, but I didn't. The food itself is made with good stuff, maybe I did something wrong but I don't believe this is the case as many others have had the same results. If someone is close to Mount Airy, NC and you want it, stop by and it's yours, I bought a large size like I do for all my foods. Later
New watcher...and subscriber!! Thanks for this vid, great information! I’m a fan of Omega One right now for our community tanks. Live foods are our next trial.
Wow you keep a lot of fish food! Great video!
First video of yours I watched and subscribed.
I thought i had a lot of food for my Fish. Variation is key I'd say,like you do. I use frozen brine shrimp besides dry foods.
A question for you : rainbows fry, I feed the first two weeks sera micron and after that a powder that's an Artemia replacement. Tiny bloodworms they go nuts for when they are as big as the little bloodworm. After that it's a Rainbowfish so everything that fits their mouths. To keep things fresh I use most dry foods and once a week frozen. What do you feed rainbow fry after the sera micron?
I go to daily baby brine and still use a little micron until they can take something like Co-Op fry food or powdered up flake of my various types I like/have on hand.
Hi ,Bentley, my fish love cobalt fish food and it has prebiotic in it ,,but only found on the internet, eny way, your fan love your videos, see you on the next one
I tend to use a mix of bug bites and sera. Going to have to check into the blue and red guppy food😁
Hi Bentley; The food from Aquarium Co-op, can you only get it in the store? I don't see it on their website.
Here is a link to the fry food: bit.ly/32Inu1m As for the pellet food, a little birdy told me right after I released this that the floating pellet is going away and to "watch for something new soon" - so I'm guessing they have something better coming ASAP.
Lots of hikari cichlid pellets and micro pellets, my Africans get north fin veggie pellets. Dainichi koi and cichlid pellets. Cobalt flake and sera nip tabs. I to am looking for a medicated food.
This video might be getting a little older, but it's still very helpful. Bentley, would mixing meds into a Repashy food be effective? Wondering about what boiling water would do to the efficacy of the meds.
What I would do is begin to mix up the rapashy and as it starts to cool down and thicken then I would add my medicine and really quickly stir it together so that it's not women in the water is at its hottest.
Thank you
Hey @BentleyPascoe! Watched this video way too late… is the Tropical brand still being distributed? I haven’t been able to find it on Amazon or at other local stores.
I also have not been able to find it, not sure where to find it now.
Are you concerned about the freshness of the food once the container is opened?
I go through them fairly fast, so not really. Any given tin lasts about a month typically around my place.
@@BentleyPascoe Oh I thought I heard that the fry food lasts over a year. And since you feed Repashy about once a month I assumed a bottle was lasting a while. Perhaps a bad assumption.
@@greenthumbaquariums1185 most of the food lasts a lot longer than we think. In the case of rapashy I make fairly large batches and then only buy the smaller tins so it works out. I've yet to see anything to give me evidence of issues.
Would the co op fry food work for panda cory fry? My cories spawned and i am trying to get ready for them!
I think it would be fine, it's a fine powdered food. The tab foods I mentioned are also a good option.
Wow!!! That's so exciting!!!!!!
@@zimrianispresent8123 yes it is. I never spawned corydoras before!
Morning Bentley!
Thanks for that Wardley's statement! seems anything Hartz make is poison. I had so many plug ups and pineconing in my fish and pond fish when I fed that in my more early on days, I lost a lot of really nice pond comets to that awful wardley's. I've never fed it since and have not had that issue since. bait worm nightcrawlers are also a good and live food, my guppies, platies, rope fish, oscar, goldfish, plecos all of them LOVE nightcrawlers!
Does the coop sell the pellet food online or only in store? I cant find it on the website.
I think they recently discontinued it because I have not seen it in store either. The new xtreme food has been very popular though
You know anyone now that carry’s this in the states been wanting to try it ?
I don't unfortunately
@@BentleyPascoe what did you think of it ?
@@leo2o915 tropical is a good middle tier food.
@@BentleyPascoe what’s ur too tier food ?
what's your opinion on repashy food ?
It's great, especially for plecos, cories and loaches
@@BentleyPascoe are they best food to feed pleco im thinking between fluval bug bite and repashy
Where can i get premium food guppy super blue?
The person who sold it previously no longer sells anything, so I don't know
Bentley does the food you purchase in bulk come sealed under the lid? I remember a Cory stream or video where he said fish food loses it's potency (nutrients) quickly and implied using it up or throwing it out within a couple months.
Yep, especially the tropical stuff, it's very nicely sealed.
I found Vibrabites to be hit or miss, my crayfish which will eat anything ignores it.
Bentley how long can you keep a large can of flake food before it goes stale an can you keep it in the fridge?
Usually a few months and yes, you can keep them in the fridge.
I use.
-TetraMin
-Tropical supervit
-JBL spirulina
My fish go crazy about the TetraMin.
Have you tried Your fish foodstuff? www.yourfishstuff.com/collections/fish-food/your-fish-stuff ?
Just subscribed :)
I bought some Sera O' Nip Tabs and not one of my fish, whether the Corydoras or Panda Garras or any other of my fish will eat it. Same goes for the Rapashi, most of them will not touch it.
The only food my rainbows have ever said no to was North fin , my guppies won't even eat it lol
Interesting! I know a few people who swear by North fin, thank you for your experience with it!
I think they stop the zoo med 20.
I hope not, I love the stuff!
My otto's won't eat the repashy soilent green
Try zucchini, they love it in my tanks
You should try Kens Ultra Intense Spirulina. My Limias and Swords and guppies love itt. Only like eight bucks a pound too, for two 8oz bags. iirc. www.kensfish.com Kens hsa alot of their own label foods. Im useing their UIS flakes and their 1mm green pelltes adn Brineshrimp flakes. They prob have around fifty diff blends of flake and pelllets. Evem fry pellets in teh micro range with like 55% protein. Sorry if i went on too long. lol, its a good place, if u havent yet, check them out.
I'll give it a shot!
🤘🐌🥦 I feed cheap trashy flake food to my isopod culture. Feed my baby spiders 😍 #praisebobthesponge
So you call pellets granuals. OK
I lumped pellets and granules together, they're fairly similar.
Are you sponsored by aquarium coop
I do have an affiliate link through them (I get a small commission for the channel for any orders through a link), but in the case of the foods I use and literally every product I have from the Co-Op, I have paid for them out of my own pocket with the only discount received being through my fish club (GSAS) back before they did the changes that brought the price cuts. The only items I have received free from the Co-Op are the red shirt (public event one Cory gives away to everyone) and a few of the tiny sample sizes the store gives out free for Vibrabites. Every item in this video I paid for, and would buy again. Long answer I know, but I need to be specific as I can see I forgot to edit my description on this video - cheers!
Absolutely nothing wrong with Tetra. The best Tetra food is pro energy. I prefer Sera Vipan but I fed Tetra for many years. Word of note, the food the fish go crazy for doesn't necessarily mean it's the best. Also ingredients are not the only important thing as most fish foods can have great ingredients but the way they are processed is what matters.
I think you are a little confused on how fish food is made and how it works.
Why do you say that? It is, most commonly various ground meals and fillers extruded and cooked off in one way or another. I've watch some companies MAKE very fine powder food, so I'm curious what specifically you mean.
Plecocaine.
I'm not familiar with this if it's a specific product but I'm going to look it up