Bottom of the barrel

[deli_conker]

I feed my cichlids Nutra-Fin spirulina flakes. I chose this as their main diet because the first ingredient is spirulina algae (most others use fish meal as main ingredient). When I first open the container, the flakes are nice and big. But by the time I get to the last 10-15% of the canister, I wind up with spirulina dust and very tiny flakes (2mm x 2mm). I don't want to pour powder or tiny flakes into my tank so I end up just throwing it away.

Does everybody else do the same or are there better uses for it. It just seems wasteful to pay $8 for something that I don't even get full use from...

[BrianNY]

I agree deli-conker. But I feel the same way about a bag of potato chips.

[Menagerie]

I find flakes to be too messy to feed to cichlids. My cichlids get sinking cichlid pellets alternating with cucumbers, zucchini, peas and the ocassional blood worms.

[Strikh]

I save the tiny little crumbs for my fry. But, then again, I don't have cichlids, just smaller fish (mostly live bearers).

[QTOFFER]

I know what you're talking about - I've notioced the same thing with my Ocean Nutrition community diet flakes.

Look at it this way, by the time you've gotten down to the bottom, the food has probably lost a good deal of nutritive value to oxidation. Maybe it's just as well you replace it.

[William]

It happens with every brand of food.


I have a 2.2ounce and a 12 ounce bucket of Omega One. Nice big flakes, but as you pick out food and move the container, flakes get crushed.

the crushed flakes settles eventually to the bottom.


[acronym:9a10c1922c="In My Honest Opinion"]IMHO[/acronym:9a10c1922c], the crushed flakes are due to human error. Atleast on my part, because I have hidiously large hands

[madasafish]

Pity that, unlike with potato chips, you can't just straighten out the side of the bag, tilt your head, and pour the last crumbs into your mouth. That's what I always do!

Not sure why you'd feel the need to throw away those tiny flakes. My fish still eat small flakes; in fact I usually break the flakes up for the smaller ones.

[deli_conker]

Pity that, unlike with potato chips, you can't just straighten out the side of the bag, tilt your head, and pour the last crumbs into your mouth. That's what I always do!

lol

My fish still eat small flakes; in fact I usually break the flakes up for the smaller ones.

Unfortunately mine don't. They end up gunking my filter. Not nearly as bad as brine shrimp, but gunked none the less.

I may try the earlier suggestion on sinking pellets just for s&g...