Tetra or Hikari
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pcfriedrich;1960528; said:BBQ chicken, no. BBQ ribs, yeah. as long as I got Mac n Chz on the side.
MMMMMMMMN..... ribs
Burt
Personally I like Hikari. Even though Tetra is great they don't seem to have a WIDE,varity like Hikari
I added this to a previous thread, may be of some interest:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124874
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124874
Burtess;1543869; said:Thats the thing, is more necessarily better? Getting "more" from lesser sources can't be good.
For instance, two dog foods can have a similar assay of nutrients (protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, ash, etc.) but one is made from real meat sources, while the other is largely from grains. Protein from grains is surely inferior to protein from meat....
NLS (and Omega One) are surely manufactured from much better ingredients than Hikari....
I posted the following in another thread: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119654
For any food that I consider, I look at the first few ingredients. What are they?
Check out the first 5 ingredients in these:
Good food:
Omega One Cichlid Pellets - whole salmon, whole herring, whole shrimp, wheat flour, wheat glutten...
Omega One Super Veggie Kelp Pellets - whole kelp, spirulina, whole salmon, halibut, seafood mix (including krill, whole herring, & shrimp)....
NLS Thera+ - krill, herring, wheat flour, algae meal, garlic....
OK food:
Hikari Cichlid Gold - fish meal, flaked corn, wheat flour, gluten meal, brewer's dried yeast...
Hikari Bio-Gold+ - fish meal, wheat flour, brewer's dried yeast, gluten meal, spirulina...
Crap:
Tetra Cichlid Sticks - Fish meal, torula dried yeast, wheat germ meal, dried potato products, wheat gluten... what fish eats potatoes????
You have to look at the ingredients, if the first thing listed is wheat or corn products, do your fish a favour and toss it in the trash....
These are the pelleted foods that I feed to my cichlids, I don't ever go near the Nutrafin, Tetra, etc. as it is generally overpriced garbage.
Burt
Burtess;1964929; said:
Great Info! I've personally only tried Tetra flakes/Pellets (bleh) and Hikari Cichlid Gold and Bio-Gold+. If you had to choose between those 2 brands, definitely go with Hikari. With Cichlid Gold and Bio-Gold+ you will notice a difference in Coloration after a months feeding. My 12'' Silver arowana and my 9'' Oscar both inhale these pellets.
My oscar I got when it was about 2'' and it had no red whatsoever, all brown. It stayed that way until about 5''-6'' on a diet of tetra flakes and pellets. Then I got my hands on a bag of Hikari Cichlid Gold and he has deep shiny red scales now. I recently got my hands on a bag of Bio-Gold+ and the colors keep geting better.
I also want to try Omega One and NLS. I've heard good things about these brands here and on many other sites along with Hikari, but since I have no experience with them yet whatsoever, I can only vouch for Hikari atm.
Each fish is different. Potatoes are a very good food source for plecos.Burtess;1964929;1964929 said:
If i had to choose between the two it would have to be hikari. But ther are better such as 0mega one, New life spectrum.
