Flakes or Pellets what is the latest and greatest

[jsker]

I have seen a couple of question about what is the best dry food to feed a mixed reef tank? What is the latest product out there?

I have be doing some reading and there are all kinds of different products out there from Reef frenzy to basic flakes to pellets. I have a busy schedule and some time I am not around at feeding time. I do have and Apex and I am going to get an auto feeder but I am not finding the right all around product to feed my fish when I miss a feeding time or need to leave for a couple of days. I have seen liquids for dosing pumps, but I would like to find a freeze dried product that I can use in a auto feeder that is a mixed product. Or do I mix my own freeze dried combination? and what is available out there that is Freeze dried.

am I asking to much?

 

[TUSI]

Pellets are better than flakes imo

 

[bmac16]

I mix a bunch of stuff in my autofeeder. Spirulina flake, mysis flake, dried brine shrimp, and sustainable aquatics pellets

 

[jsker]

Pellets are better than flakes imo

I mix a bunch of stuff in my autofeeder. Spirulina flake, mysis flake, dried brine shrimp, and sustainable aquatics pellets

What kind of pellets are you using?

 

[Leviathan]

I mix a bunch of stuff in my autofeeder. Spirulina flake, mysis flake, dried brine shrimp, and sustainable aquatics pellets

+1 My clowns go nuts over the Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet Pellets.

 

[bmac16]

What kind of pellets are you using?

BRS carries it, sustainable aquatics hatchery diet

 

[jsker]

+1 My clowns go nuts over the Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet Pellets.

BRS carries it, sustainable aquatics hatchery diet

thank you, I will looking into the sustainable hatchery diet product

 

[hybridazn]

When I feed dry I use the blue zoo aquatics mix or new life spectrum pellets

 

[jsker]

When I feed dry I use the blue zoo aquatics mix or new life spectrum pellets

Thank you, I was looking at the life spectrum pellets

 

[Tegridy Reef]

Following

 

[jsker]

I have in my tank
1 hippo tang
1 sailfin tang
1 matted filefish (likes frozen)
1 8 lined wrasse
1 Maroon gold stripe clown

 

[treedog5]

new life pellets here also..

 

[Tegridy Reef]

With people with sucess with it how did u see your po4 get affected with flakes and pellets? If I may ask if not u can take it down

 

[jsker]

new life pellets here also..

which one are you using?

 

[jamie callard Verified Sponsor]

I use hikari pellets I use marine A because I have larger fish as well as the seaweed extreme sinking pellets.

 

[jsker]

Man @jamie callard Hikari is still out there

 

[jamie callard Verified Sponsor]

my lfs is all they have. They have the frozen food from them as well as a variety of pellets.
this is what i use in my tank
Coral
Seaweed
pellets
i do the 160z flat pack of this brine shrimp
I also do the 16oz of this mysis shrimp
I do the coral 2 times a week i alternate the shrimps with rods or LRS every night. I do the pellets every AM so i feed my tank twice a day

 

[jsker]

my lfs is all they have. They have the frozen food from them as well as a variety of pellets.
this is what i use in my tank
Coral
Seaweed
pellets
i do the 160z flat pack of this brine shrimp
I also do the 16oz of this mysis shrimp
I do the coral 2 times a week i alternate the shrimps with rods or LRS every night. I do the pellets every AM so i feed my tank twice a day

I am feeding
Homemade blend of frozen
Mysis
Ocean Nutrition formula two flakes

 

[john.m.cole3]

I have seen a couple of question about what is the best dry food to feed a mixed reef tank? What is the latest product out there?

I have be doing some reading and there are all kinds of different products out there from Reef frenzy to basic flakes to pellets. I have a busy schedule and some time I am not around at feeding time. I do have and Apex and I am going to get an auto feeder but I am not finding the right all around product to feed my fish when I miss a feeding time or need to leave for a couple of days. I have seen liquids for dosing pumps, but I would like to find a freeze dried product that I can use in a auto feeder that is a mixed product. Or do I mix my own freeze dried combination? and what is available out there that is Freeze dried.

am I asking to much?

Good thread!
I too have been asking myself these same questions. I use New Life Spectrum sinking pellets (medium size) for tropical fish, Cobalt freeze dried brine shrimp, some veggie pellets (can't remember name right now). I use these intermittently for variety of foods. I bought the eheim auto feeder and was planning on mixing all 3 for that feeder.

I'm always up better products, especially if they are healthier choices for my fish.

 

[jsker]

Purchased a small amount of the New Life Spectrum Thera+A now for the dried shrimp. Brine or mysis?