Tetramin Pro fish food...

[huck]

HI, I am looking for a good flake food to feed to my cardinal tetras.  Are Tetramin Pro tropical crisps (with the blue container)  any good?  tell me if you have ever used this food and how your fish liked it, I would appreciate it...  Are the plain tetramin tropical flakes just as good?



[glow=red,2,300]Thanks[/glow]   *thumbsupsmiley*

 

[colesea]

The tropical crips look like someone took a hole puncher to a pack of multi-colored construction paper, then packaged the resulting dots. The uniformity in size of flake is nice because it makes it easier to determine exactly how much your fish will eat, and it seems to result in less crumbs. Ingeredients wise, they're the same ingredients as in any other fish food.

The key to a fish's diet is variety. I use several differnt brands of processed food (Tetra crips, Wardly Total Tropical, Nutrafin Goldfish Spirulina Flakes, Hikara Micro Pellet) with my tropicals in an alternating manner. Because they're used to having such a varied diet, they eat each brand with gusto. Sometime fish that have only ever been fed one type of food become harder to switch brand on, and might not eat a new food going into their tank.
~~Colesea

 

[huck]

Ok, so its good to give fish a variety of foods...  At first I didn't think it would be healthy for them...  So when you feed the different foods, do you just mix up a couple different kinds and feed them that?  or do you feed a different kind every couple of days or so, and then switch back?  Would it be good to feed my cories shrimp pellets on day, and then a couple days later feed them bloodworm?


thanks

 

[dattack]

Yes it's good to mix and match fishes diet.  The variety will definitely make them healthier.

 

[colesea]

I don't mix it together and feed it all at once, I alternate. Use one, then another, switch to a third every couple of days. It's less messier that way<G>
~~Colesea