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get a picture album and show it off, then...lol
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fair enough 
The first is a 90 community with, from the top down, african butterfly, golden wonder killis, dwarf neon, yellow, boesmani and turquise rainbows, goldfish, cherry barbs, BN pleco, rubberlip pleco, dojos and kuhlis. I feed this tank the 0.5, 1 and 2 mm foods.
Second is a 45, with pearl gouramis, neon, black neon, orange flame and bloodfin tetras, triple red cockatoos, blood red albino swords and albino, leopard and emerald corys. I feed this tank just the 0.5 mm food.
Last is a 75 african community with congo tetras, spotted ctenopoma, senegal bichir, african knife and an african featherfin. This tank gets just the 2 mm food.
The first is a 90 community with, from the top down, african butterfly, golden wonder killis, dwarf neon, yellow, boesmani and turquise rainbows, goldfish, cherry barbs, BN pleco, rubberlip pleco, dojos and kuhlis. I feed this tank the 0.5, 1 and 2 mm foods.
Second is a 45, with pearl gouramis, neon, black neon, orange flame and bloodfin tetras, triple red cockatoos, blood red albino swords and albino, leopard and emerald corys. I feed this tank just the 0.5 mm food.
Last is a 75 african community with congo tetras, spotted ctenopoma, senegal bichir, african knife and an african featherfin. This tank gets just the 2 mm food.
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nice, i really like the 45's look, anyway you mention differents sizes, pellets i assume? i like pellets better. my dad haD a 45g when i was growing up...wish i still had it, good dimesions for medium size fish.
Feeding a high quality food like NLS goes a long way to keeping a tank clean, too. Some foods have more undigestable matter in them than others, and that passes right through the fish.
Yes, I was trying to keep the thread on the topic of NLS. Pellets are far superior to flakes, IMO.
Yes, I was trying to keep the thread on the topic of NLS. Pellets are far superior to flakes, IMO.
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4sure, i know it helps keep my tank way cleaner than flake...so can i get this stuff in flake for my mollies and platys and other flake majority eating fish?
I've kept 50 different species of fish since switching to NLS pellets and only 1 refused to eat it - BGK. I thought I'd have trouble with the butterfly, but there was none.
Some fish do not take to it right away though. If they are used to junk food, they will pass on the NLS hoping to get more of the other. It might take a couple days for them to eat it, but once they do they love it.
Some fish do not take to it right away though. If they are used to junk food, they will pass on the NLS hoping to get more of the other. It might take a couple days for them to eat it, but once they do they love it.
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flake? or is that junk food?
there are some high quality flakes. NLS makes a garlic flake - I've used it, the fish liked it.
one thing to keep in mind with the pellets - they sink. If you have gravel, you can end up with a lot of food falling through the cracks, out of reach. I believe there is a semi-floating variety, which stays suspended in the water longer.
Otherwise, the fish will be eating off the bottom. It's an adjustment, but I assure you the fish will go to the food, wherever it is.
one thing to keep in mind with the pellets - they sink. If you have gravel, you can end up with a lot of food falling through the cracks, out of reach. I believe there is a semi-floating variety, which stays suspended in the water longer.
Otherwise, the fish will be eating off the bottom. It's an adjustment, but I assure you the fish will go to the food, wherever it is.
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i will look on the shelves for it, now 4sure. sounds good for most the time feeding.
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could not find any in town at the 2main stores(surprise!), keep looking, later
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I've only found NLS locally in one store, which happens to be my LFS. The guy breeds discus and african cichlids. Nowhere else sells it, including petsmart. I've always ordered it in the past from aquacave.
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mfdrookie516 said:
I get my Thera-A in bulk, but surprisingly the local petco carries the full (?) line.
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petco across state lines has sooo much more stuff than the stores here in the hood
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I get it on ebay for about $65 for a 5lb bucket. Lasts me about a year.
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Petco has started carrying it, but I am not sure if they are carrying all of them.
You can get good deals online though, $50-65 for a bucket shipped is good. Obviously you can go with one of the smaller containers too, for much cheaper. I love eBay.
You can get good deals online though, $50-65 for a bucket shipped is good. Obviously you can go with one of the smaller containers too, for much cheaper. I love eBay.
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a bucket, hmmm gonna check foster n smith
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one thing i noticed today is freeze dried bloodworms have 50% protein vs. 3.5% in the frozen kind...
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Take out the % of water in the frozen and then look at the numbers.
I don't do either (freeze-dried or frozen). If I did it would be certain frozen foods, but not bloodworms. For corals and small fish Cyclopeeze is an amazing frozen food. Rod's Food for a very diverse reef tank is perfect. Also for forals is stuff like oyster eggs and rotifers. For almost all freshwater fish though you shouldn't have to go beyond NLS.
I don't do either (freeze-dried or frozen). If I did it would be certain frozen foods, but not bloodworms. For corals and small fish Cyclopeeze is an amazing frozen food. Rod's Food for a very diverse reef tank is perfect. Also for forals is stuff like oyster eggs and rotifers. For almost all freshwater fish though you shouldn't have to go beyond NLS.
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