I still use tetra but in truth years ago they made a flake food called tetra ruby. Best color food enhancer on the market. I'd also feed it to my marine fish. I had a marine tank with large plastic plants that reached the surface. I noticed a pair of very plain peppermint shrimp start climbing the plants and they would turn upside down and grab the tetra ruby off the surface. In a month or two those shrimp were as bright a red as a red fire shrimp. Never saw a plain shrimp take on so much color. I have to say my african cichlids never looked more colorful either. Today's tetra flakes don't produce that much color. Living along the upper texas coast mosquitoes were a great resource. I'd set a bucket of out tank water and dead leaves out in the shade. A time or two a week I could take a brine shrimp net out there and scoop up a net full of live mosquito wigglers and toss them in my fish tanks. Man the fight was on as to how many each fish could catch. I raised a school of neons from less than half an inch to jumbo size in two years by feeding them tetra ruby and mosquito larva.
Over the years I have bought plenty of expensive flake & pellet foods for my Guppies & Platies.These foods have lots of 'Good ' ingredients but my fish don't eat with gusto, they basically taste it & then usually spit it out.I feed these foods for several weeks. So now I feed Tetramin tropical flake which they absolutely love & once a week frozen brine shrimp. The Tetra I buy when on special for about $25 Australian for 200 gr container. Good video mate!
Great Video! Your results match mine. TetraMin flakes makes my fish grow faster as well. Omega Flakes made my fish unhealthy so I trashed it. I also use Hikari micro pellets, Sera Flakes and Bug Bites. These are the only foods I use and my fish breed. Thanks for your honest feedback.
I remember when i got my betta spike I bought the best of what the people who keep them longer recommend he would pick at it but then i switched to flakes and he loves it like with every other animals all feed the fish in front of me and my picky boy is not a pellet fish he like his flakes
FYI "fish" is the plural of "fish". There is a technicality where one may use "fishes" but it is not considered casual speech. As someone who I believe is a non-native English speaker I thought you may like to know. Keep up the good work.
@@amazonianangelfish I tutor non-native speakers and tenses and plurals are hard. You are an excellent speaker, you must have started young or been very dedicated, which is why I thought to point it out. Figured you may want to fine tune going forward. Good work!
