Fish Food

I don't know that much about food like this I'm afraid. I do know that when you thaw frozen bloodworm in water, the water goes red. I presume the bloodworm in that product has been ground up and made into pellets so the red that comes out of frozen bw would also be in the pellets.
And maybe the other one contains tiny particles within the granules.

I've started buying New Life Spectrum food. According to things I've come across, it contains less ash and filler than other flakes and pellets. I had to get it on-line as it's not stocked anywhere near me. But they are not the kind of special food like the ones you mention - I assume they should be fed as part of a mixed diet rather than just them.

Those two foods would certainly give you fish plenty of variety with everything else you feed. I think 'mixed diet' means more than one type of food, which you are doing, but the bigger variety the better. Provided you can get through all the different packs before their use by dates.
I have got very lazy recently, and only have four types of food, not all to every tank. Oh, six if you count betta pellets and shrimp food.

The betta gets betta pellets, frozen live food and peas.
The 50l (male endlers, pygmy cories, cherry shrimp) gets New Life Spectrum flakes, powdered Nutrafin max bottom feeder tablets and Hikari shrimp cuisine; frozen live and peas
The 125 l (gouramis, apsitos, tetras, loaches, amano shrimp) gets NLS flake, NLS sinking pellets and Nutrafin max microgranules; frozen live and peas.

Not all at the same time 


My local shops only stock general purpose food by the big manufacturers. I really should get some more food like the ones you are asking about but I'm getting a bit paranoid about mail order after not getting the the Beta G (for the shrimps) and a heater bracket that went awol in the post last year.

Thanks Sue.

I have just ordered 10g of each to try them out. Hopefully they'll be OK and I can order more. I will report back here if anybody is interested?

With the Tetra Pro, can I use the Colour and Vegetable for both tanks given the inhabitants? (numpty question - sorry  )  Im sure the cardinal tank will very much appreciate the Vegetable, but will the molly tank appreciate the Colour? Should I just try it and see?

You bought the Beta-G off ebay didnt you? You do realise that you can open a dispute for a refund if the seller doesnt co-operate? (sorry if Im telling you how to suck eggs!).

I always check the feedback of sellers before buying. For instance, the seller of the granules has only 99.2% score. Normally I would be very dubious about that, but having read through their feedback, the disgruntled people bought car parts off him! Everyone who bought fish food are very happy peeps with very happy fish. Of 1670 feedback, he has 12 neutrals and 9 negatives. I consider that to be acceptable - you'll always get some people complaining! And they're the people who bought car parts anyway!

I've just received the second pack on Beta G. I'll do a water change tomorrow and add it afterwards.

I've also sent a message to the seller of the first pack.

Had a reply from seller 1 (he's got 100% feedback) - if I still haven't had it at the end of the week, he'll "sort this out for you ASAP and put in a claim to RM".

Now I just have to see if the stuff works. Though I haven't had any more shrimp deaths for a few days now (unless they've been eaten before I could find them)