frozen vs dry pellet food

reeferious · #1 01-25-2009, 04:25 AM

have always fed frozen food but am considering adding pellet food to my feeding schedule. just wondering how this affects water quality, fish health, waste buildup?

Trigger Man · #2 01-25-2009, 04:31 AM

Frozen tends to affect the water quality a lot more then good quality pellet foods. If you are feeding a couple of different types it will allow ones fishes health to flurish.
If your fish are not used to eating pellets it may take a few weeks for them to get used to the idea, you may have to feed half frozen half pellets to begin with.

reeferious · #3 01-25-2009, 04:38 AM

thanks i always thought it was the other way around since i was basing on the logic that any frozen feed(mysis, bloodworm, cyclopleze etc) not eaten by fish would be cleaned up by tank scavengers. i will start trying some dry pellet food now.

Trigger Man · #4 01-25-2009, 04:42 AM

The pellets not eaten by the fish will also be eaten by scavengers, if you overfeed anything (including pellets) a bunch it will have ill effects on ones tank.

untamed · #5 01-25-2009, 07:17 AM

I feed both. Pellets for lunch...Frozen for dinner...Nori both times.

fishytime · #6 01-25-2009, 03:13 PM

My feeding regiment is made up almost entirely of a mix of different frozen foods enriched with selcon(if it isnt already). I use dry foods only as a "convenience" food if I am hurried to get the tank fed. All dry foods claim to not contain phosphates(but do) and some actually contain copper sulfate(NLS). Just my opinion but I personally dont want to feed my fish a crap load of chemicals and wheat proteins. During the summer I was super busy with work and fed the tank dry foods for three weeks or so. I spent the next few weeks battling diatoms and red slime algae. That was enough for me to hide the dry foods in the back room so I wasnt tempted by convenience and since Ive stopped with the dry foods the pesky algae has gone.