Best all purpose (dry) fish food

TDO reef life hack for any new reefer.

Step 1. Buy a pouch of the Small-C2 pellets to feed your new/small fish as you get into the hobby.

Step 2. Every time you place an order at SWA.com, opt in for the "free gift" sample pack of TDO pellets. These sample packs come with the larger EP-1 sized TDO pellets. store them in your fridge for use later.

By the time your first pouch of Small-C2 sized TDO is gone, and the hobby has you fully by the nads, you will have already placed enough orders at SWA.com to never have to buy any more TDO pellets the rest of your reefing life. simply retrieve them from your fridge as needed.

Not just TDO though, you can do the same with Benereef coral food, PE Mysis pellets, and Reef Roids.
Four products I will never have to purchase ever again.
 
I have had great luck using TDO chromaboost as a general purpose food, for LPS, firefish, gobies and zoa's. A bit challenging at times in breaking surface tension, but I generally feed with a dropper so most of this time it's a non issue
 
I have had great luck using TDO chromaboost as a general purpose food, for LPS, firefish, gobies and zoa's. A bit challenging at times in breaking surface tension, but I generally feed with a dropper so most of this time it's a non issue

A feeding ring helps. I have one under my auto pellet feeder. Keeps pellets in the ring until they sink. My clowns and flasher wrasse will feed from the floating pellets while they float in the ring. the rest of my fish wait below for the pellets to sink.
 
A feeding ring helps. I have one under my auto pellet feeder. Keeps pellets in the ring until they sink. My clowns and flasher wrasse will feed from the floating pellets while they float in the ring. the rest of my fish wait below for the pellets to sink.

A feeding ring helps. I have one under my auto pellet feeder. Keeps pellets in the ring until they sink. My clowns and flasher wrasse will feed from the floating pellets while they float in the ring. the rest of my fish wait below for the pellets to sink.
That's good advice. I was unaware of feeding rings but it looks like they help keep the floaters coralled.
 
A feeding ring helps. I have one under my auto pellet feeder. Keeps pellets in the ring until they sink. My clowns and flasher wrasse will feed from the floating pellets while they float in the ring. the rest of my fish wait below for the pellets to sink.
This is what I do. I moved the feeding ring to where the water flows to make slowly disperse it down into the water column, otherwise it just sits on the surface for a long time. TDO Chromaboost is awesome, my fishes/inverts goes crazy for it. I have not tried feeding it to corals yet, planning to try that tonight.
 
A feeding ring helps. I have one under my auto pellet feeder. Keeps pellets in the ring until they sink. My clowns and flasher wrasse will feed from the floating pellets while they float in the ring. the rest of my fish wait below for the pellets to sink.
Won't the clowns eat too much / all the pellets before any of them sink? I find myself in a dilemma that either I feed the clowns too much or nothing sinks for the bottom fish.
 
TDO reef life hack for any new reefer.

Step 1. Buy a pouch of the Small-C2 pellets to feed your new/small fish as you get into the hobby.

Step 2. Every time you place an order at SWA.com, opt in for the "free gift" sample pack of TDO pellets. These sample packs come with the larger EP-1 sized TDO pellets. store them in your fridge for use later.

By the time your first pouch of Small-C2 sized TDO is gone, and the hobby has you fully by the nads, you will have already placed enough orders at SWA.com to never have to buy any more TDO pellets the rest of your reefing life. simply retrieve them from your fridge as needed.

Not just TDO though, you can do the same with Benereef coral food, PE Mysis pellets, and Reef Roids.
Four products I will never have to purchase ever again

SWA (and RN) after you disclose your strategy

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All of my fish and inverts seem to go ballistic over them, though it took my wrasses a couple days of watching other fish eating them to finally realize they were edible. They seem small enough for most fish to pick at. They tend to float a bit, and enough to get sucked up into the overflow. But I usually take a pinch and throw it at the surface of the water which causes most of it to sink and get caught up in the water flow.
 
Hi all,
I am curious to hear everyone’s opinion on the best (dry) all purpose fishfood. For years I have enjoyed a Taiwanese brand “Ultra fresh”. I have not been able to secure any more and now am looking out for other good brands. I have used Ocean Nutrition, Omega1 and New Life Spectrum in the past that I dont mind. For the most part I feed frozen, but do offer pellets in between meals as treats.
what’s your recommendation for te best all around dry (pellet or flake) food for marine fish?
I am looking to rate by its nutritional quality, easily accepted by broad range of fish, less waste, and price value.
Look forward to hear!
TDO chromaboost…all day, everyday and twice on sundays
 
TDO chromaboost…all day, everyday and twice on sundays
I did get the started pack of this in xs, s, and medium sizes. I haven’t really notice any physical changes (coloration or fat), not have I seen fish changing behavior against this food. I feed four other kinds of dry food and they react equally excited against all four, none stands out as a favorite. At least for now. But I will continue testing and report any soecific benefit to soeficit class of fish
 
I recently started TDO Chromaboost small size and my mandarin even likes to pluck them from the sandbed. I seem to get good feeding response.

I also just started trying Pe Mysis FLAKE - seems high quality - the flakes are enormous and not fragmented dust.
 
Hi all,
I am curious to hear everyone’s opinion on the best (dry) all purpose fishfood. For years I have enjoyed a Taiwanese brand “Ultra fresh”. I have not been able to secure any more and now am looking out for other good brands. I have used Ocean Nutrition, Omega1 and New Life Spectrum in the past that I dont mind. For the most part I feed frozen, but do offer pellets in between meals as treats.
what’s your recommendation for te best all around dry (pellet or flake) food for marine fish?
I am looking to rate by its nutritional quality, easily accepted by broad range of fish, less waste, and price value.
Look forward to hear!
TDO chromaboost!
 
I really like this brand, and specifically this bag (among other stuff) -
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