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i tried the crisps and my fish wont eat them... they would try then spit the crisps out... so i stopped trying to get them to eat it.

my tank has a variety of tetra, long finned rosy barbs, mollies, platys etc...

Tetra - been using them all my life, no reason to stop now, especially with all the newer varieties like the crisps

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I feed my guppies and other small mouthed fish the Hikari Micro Pellets and some tetraMin Flakes same with our big tank. Been feeding the tetraMin for 4.5 years... so far so good..

I use Hikari as well, and Tetra when I can't find Hikari at my LFS

I would think generally any well-known brand that has been around for a while. I just shy away from dusty cans in some grocery stores and those at clearance stores (not sure of freshness). Just avoid the cheap no name stuff. Probably a lot like the really cheap dog food...a dog can starve to death eating that garbage, won't do it to my dog, won't do it to my fish.

Hikari Tropical Flakes... They are UBER high quality.

I've tried a few others but, always end up coming back to Tetra Flakes (Yellow Can--Brown Label) the original, even tried some of their other flakes...nope...Now that I have Cichlids, I'm using their Cichlid pellets and all seems to be going well...

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been usin tetra for over 20 years. (family)

I used Omega 1 and didnt see a difference between the foods, so i went back to tetra.

I use Aquarian flake for my community tanks, hikari betta flake for my female betta tank.

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I use Hikari Flakes &amp; i think that they're a very good brand.





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nutrition is most important to me when looking for a flake food so i go for Tetra's Crisps.

What is the best brand of flakes. I use Wardly

For general flake food it's important to look for a high protein percentage and low moisture content.

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I dont normally use any one brand of flake. Alot of the time i will buy the specific ingredients i want for a specific tank. For instance with live bearers ... an earthworm flake seems to produce more fry and more often. Spirulina is a good flake for color and health. Algae flakes are good fillers and provide some nutrition.

So about one every 3 months its a pain mixing all the foods, but i know that the fish are getting the best nutrition for their needs. I also mix in freeze dried mysis shrimp, krill, bloodworms, shrimp pellets, and earthworm pellets.

I personally think this is the best method. Cost is lower than buying cans of tetramin, but requires more time and research if i have recently changed a tank.

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when I was a kid (lets just say a long time ago) the only flakes I ever saw were the tetramin brand. I know they've been around a long time, and that familiar yellow can reminds me of a long time ago. But I usually just use the topfin brand at petsmart.

I only buy the best for my fish...

I use Ocean Nutrition's Community Formula, which is a high quality food. It does cost more than the other brands, though... $5 for a 1oz container.

The ingredients are salmon fillets, Euphausia pacifica plankton, squid, salmon eggs/salmon oil, Euphausia superba plankton/krill hydrolysate, sea clams, kelp, herring, adult brine shrimp, brine shrimp nauplii, MPAX (Marine Protein Amino Extract: fish meals, hydrolysates, select amino acids [arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, cystine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine]), wheat flour, corn meal, egg, lecithin, calcium chloride, magnesium sulfate, vitamin premix (ascorbic acid including stabilized vitamin C, dl-a-tocopheryl acetate, d-pantothenic acid, riboflavin, niacin, menadione, folacin, cholecalciferol, biotin, thiamine, retinol, pyridoxine, cyanocobalamin), carotenoid pigments (canthaxanthin/astaxanthin), artificial color, and preservative (ethoxyquin).

Whew...

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compare all the ingrediants in various flake foods, and you will find most are the same. crude protien, fat, and moisture are almost the same. the first 8 to 10 ingred. are the same.

i am now holding in my hand tetramin tropical flakes and bettamin tropical medley. everything matches, except there are large shrimp chunks in the bettamin. what is the differance?

granted, flake food is a small percentage of my fish populations total calorie intake. but if everything seems the same, why not buy the cheapest (assuming all brands are fresh)?

i feed all my cichlids Hikari and for my tropicals i just use petsmarts brand, Top Fin