What's The Best Community Fish Food?

Your tetras and minnows will feed from the surface or mid water so for them you need flake or pellets that don't sink immediately. For the plecs you need algae rich pellets or wafers that do sink quickly. The make isn't as important as the nature of the food.
Given that fish food does have a shelf life, it is better to buy just a couple of types of food, and use them up before trying something else rather than have lots of different types open at once. Maybe one pot of flake, one pot of non-sinking pellets and one pot of sinking algae wafers/pellets at a time, and alternate the flake and non-sinking pellets for variety.

Bloodworm is not very nutritious, it should only be fed once, maybe twice a week. Think of them as burgers and the flake/pellets as a meat and two veg meal. Dried bloodworm is the least nutritious of the ways you can buy them. Live is best but comes with possible disease contamination. Frozen is not far behind live, but does not have the same health risk. If the other users of your freezer do not object, buy a pack of frozen bloodworm cubes (or daphnia or brine shrimp). You'll need to chop a cube up for the amount of fish you have as they contain a deceptively large amount. Thaw in a bit of tank water before feeding.
How do you feed your frozen bloodworm, do you just add it straight to the tank? It is safer to rehydrate them in a bit of tank water first as if a fish eats a huge chunk it could expand inside the fish enough to damage it.




Most branded fish food is fine. Some of the unbranded stuff you can get on Ebay etc is probably OK but I'd rather not risk it. I've just started using New Life Stectrum as it's supposed the be the one with the least fillers (ash) in it. The downside is that I haven't found a shop that stocks it so I have to buy it on-line.

If you look for non-sinking pellets, make sure they are small enough for your fish's mouths as some can be quite big. I can't help with the plecs I'm afraid as I've never had any.
And courgette is better for fish than cucumber. I fed that when I had apple snails, they loved it. If you don't eat courgette yourselves, buy one, chop it into slices then freeze them flat on a tray and bag them once frozen. They thaw out really quickly if you don't cut them too thick.

My fish are small, probably 2 inches or less except the plecs. I'll make sure to get the smallest non-sinking pellets I can find. Will also try courgette, heard nothing but good things about that so will pick some up when I use up the cucumber . I'll give the peas a try as well, hopefully they'll eat it, my fish are fussy eaters.