what is your favorite staple food and why

[catfishmike]

i'm asking every one out there to share thier experince with staple food,what brands you perfer,what your fish prefer ect...
i'm trying to find the best kinds,and this just seems to be a
great subject for anyone who wants the best for their fish. i crrently use wardly srimp pellets and algae discs for my catfish.i first started w/hikari sinking waffers and algae discs but i got to reading the lablels and found wardly to have better ingredents.my bettas i feed hikari betta gold and tetra freeze dried bloodworms.

 

[Britfish]

I probably get a completely different range to you guys, I use tropical flake, sinking cat pellets and algae tablets all by King British, good make over here. Plus bloodworms and brineshrimp in delicious vitamin jelly, they LOVE that stuff!  *twirlysmiley*

 

[colesea]

Hmm... considering variety is the key, I can't really say I use any one brand or type of food as a stable.  I've got:

Tetra brand:
Tetramin Pro Tropical Crisps
Tetramin Tropical Tablets
TetraExotic Sinking Mini Sticks

Wardly:
Algae Chips Sinking Disk Food
Goldfish Floating Pellets
Shrimp Pellets

Hagen:
Nutrafin Max Complete Flake Food

Hikari:
Micro Pellets
Sinking Wafers

HBH:
Betta Bites

Of live foods I like artemia naupli every now and again when I go to the lab and hit them up for some.  But I don't feed live very often, I kinda switch around what brand of food they get each feeding, and put the sinking stuff in once a week.
~~Colesea

 

[luvfishies]

I don't really have a "staple" food as every feeding is with something different. I must have about 15 different varieties of flake, Wardley and Hikari algae tabs, nutrafin spirulina tabs, wardley bottom feeder discs, Hikari Carnivore bottom feeder pellets....

about 10 different frozen foods
2 live culture, one of microworms, and one of grindals.

Zucchini, peas, cucumber, broccoli stalk, shaved carrot, cocktail shrimp. cooked fish ar the "people food" that finds it's way into the tanks occasionally.

Not much help, but the idea here is variety, as colesea pointed out, not a reliance on one or two foods.

 

[Somonas]

I am a big fan of Hikari Excel pellets, zuchinni, spirulina flakes, and tropical flakes for the tetras.

oh and bottom tablets for the synodontuses and clowns.

 

[catfishmike]

thanks for the responses, i hoped for more but everyone seems to be on the same track so oh well.i geuss my real goal was to see if anybody has tried the premium brands in the big name magazines and if they would rave about them.once again thanks for your help.somonas are those hikari pellets the same as the ones for koi?
p.s. i do give my fish variety as anyone should,i know i'd go nuts if i hade to eat frosted flakes every day

 

[Backdraft Bagel]

i simply alternate 'tween frozen bloodworms and frozen brine scrimp. occassionally, i'll give them live blackworms.

 

[Atlantic Fish]

I dont pick out one in particular either....variety of staple, bloodworms, pellets,  variety is the key i think.  i certianly dont like to eat the same thing day after day and im sure my cichlids dont either...

 

[Avalon]

Tetra Min Pro.

I feed 'em other stuff like bloodworms for the angels and rainbows, sinking pellets, and earthworms for the loaches. I also like to take excess snails (from another tank) and smash them in between my fingers then feed them to my loaches. They love 'em!