Tetra Crisps

[nLinked]

Hi everyone!

I was looking at Tetra's food for tropical fish. It seems they want to replace flakes with crisps. Has anybody tried these?

I have fish at all levels of the water, and although I do use specific foods for some of them, I usually have a staple one for all of them.

How are the crips? Do they ever sink? Most of the fish are cichlids, and forgive me for being a bit restrictive, but I only want to choose Tetra products at this time!

If anyone's tried these, what fish did you feed? And did you try the TetraMin Crisps or the TetraPro Crisps? How did they go?

 

[demjor19]

Hi everyone!

I was looking at Tetra's food for tropical fish. It seems they want to replace flakes with crisps. Has anybody tried these?

yeah...i wasn't crazy about them.
then again...i guess they are for fish.


may i ask why you are only using tetra products? with so many great fish foods on the market i don't see a reason to not shop around. i'm not knocking tetra. i do occasionally use tetra foods and i use their water conditioner.

 

[nLinked]

yeah...i wasn't crazy about them.
then again...i guess they are for fish.


may i ask why you are only using tetra products? with so many great fish foods on the market i don't see a reason to not shop around. i'm not knocking tetra. i do occasionally use tetra foods and i use their water conditioner.

Yeah, I've used SO MANY brands, and now it's Tetra's turn. For no-apparent reason, I've always ignored them since I bought their TabiMin pleco food. It always disolved and messed up my water so quickly, and the pleco preferred wafers.

So now I'm round to Tetra. All my other staple and specific food is finishing, so I'm going to buy Tetra-only this time for all the fish and see how it goes. Then I'll choose the best products from all the brands.

Hikari seems the best for the pleco wafers so that's done.

So, did you try them? Were the crisps readily accepted compared to flakes (which mine spit out)?

 

[demjor19]

to be honest i haven't tried the crisps. i've used tetra's flake foods before and my fish liked them. i've been using FD krill and floating/sinking pellets from Ken's Fish as my chiclid/growout fish's staple diet.

 

[AquataHolic420]

Tropical Crisps RULLLE. MOST of my fish love them including, Geophagus species, Pleco's eat em, All other cichlids, And i even have a Thinbar Danoid who eats about 20 Crisps a feeding, Its fun to watch him dart out for a mere crisp. Good luck!

PS. I have noticed in feeding Geo's in one tank with crisps it enhanced theyre colors, more then the tank not being fed them. These were Tapajos Red Head Geo's, so now i feed them all the crisps and they have some good colors.

 

[demjor19]

i may have to give them a try also. i am assuming they can be picked up anywhere that sells fish supplies?

 

[at2]

i feed the crisps to all my fish as part of the mix. they all seem to love em

 

[ewurm]

Not a real fan of any tetra food.

 

[rjmtx]

Not a real fan of any tetra food.

I second that. For Flakes, I've always liked Omega One, and pellets Marineland Bio-Blend-which sinks at variable rates- and Dainichi.

I always liked Hikari's wafers.

Look at ingredients, the better food won't have fillers like corn high on their lists (if at all).

That's just me, everyone has their own tastes (and yes, I've tasted most of them)

IHow are the crips? Do they ever sink?

You might want to ask a blood...

 

[krzr3000]

I wouldn't recommend feeding the crisps to smaller community fish. The "crisps" were either to large or too hard and they went straight to the bottom when i fed them to the fish at work. And i dont think feeding it to larger more prized fish would make any sense as there is much better food out there.