Aqueon Cichlid Slow Sinking Fish Food Pellets, Medium Size, 25 Ounce

Sinks too fast and many fishes are unable to grab it

Fish liked it

I really wish I could articulate just how much my cichlids love these pellets. I have a cichlid pond with about 20 fish well over 10” and they love the medium size. They could easily get jumbo but why mess with a good thing.. plus they’re never in stock. There is also a very large, prolific group of Polar Parrots & Convicts that stay making babies, and they also enjoy these. The adults can eat the medium size, mostly, but I buy the mini for their fry and smaller fish. It’s so funny bc the convict fry are dark so when they are eating them, all I see are just light pellets swimming around 🤣 I also have Blood Parrots, Flowerhorns, Red Devil, Severums, Red Head Viejas, Geophagus, Acara, Jewels, Jack Dempseys etc and they ALL are happily eating these. I have one very moody and very boujee Oscar and he will eat these.. but he only wants the tetra floating stick shaped pellets that I bought once, but everyone else hates. Lol so they are *his*. Point is every SA & CA cichlid I own likes these to the point where they will literally snub flakes when I try to feed them those.. which is pretty bold bc they were been raised on tetra cichlid flakes since they were all fry in 2019 when I stocked that pond myself. So 5 years on flakes only, and they got one taste of these pellets and they’re like “flakes who?!” I started the pellets for my Blood Parrots who can have trouble with flakes bc of their mouths.. they were always able to eat enough, but I could tell it’s sometimes a struggle for a few of them. That was the plan.. I did not anticipate everyone else falling in love with these the way they have. All good though 🙂 All fish are different and mine even snub certain foods, so it’s really just trial & error. If they are young, you can pretty much decide for them, but if they are older, they might have some say in it🤣

I started using this food basically because of its colour. I was having issues with my water turning red from other foods. I have no red colour in my water. Within a few days of feeding this my fish had much brighter colour. I haven't seen any sink but it also doesn't last long enough to have a chance to sink. The zippy part of the bag wasn't functional but that doesn't bother me. My fish eat it with no issues and they have turned away from much more expensive kinds. I'm very happy with the food and I'm pretty sure my fish are too!

Food sinks insanely fast

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