Almost Natural Tropical Fish Food

[hollyfish2000]

does anyone purchase food from Ed's Almost Natural Tropical Fish Food? He's a long-time hobbyist who makes his own food. He has a cichlid flakes option, which I recently ordered. My peacocks won't eat it! I'd had his tropical fish food before (as well as spirulina flakes) before and liked it because it comes in much larger flakes. The NLS, which I use, seems to be mostly dust for at least half the container these days . . . Anyway, just curious. Other forums RAVE about this guy's food and it certainly looks and smells good to me. But to my fish, not so much . ..

 

[jonclark96]

Never tried it. I hear that Ken's Fish has really good stuff, but have never ordered from him myself.

 

[dogofwar]

Trust your fish

I've never tried it but am a fan of NLS, Extreme and Kensfish. And live red wiggler worms...which are more than almost natural

Matt

 

[dogofwar]

I need to get some stuff from Kensfish. Want to split shipping?

Matt

Never tried it. I here that Ken's Fish has really good stuff, but have never ordered from him myself.

 

[jonclark96]

We can do that. I need to get a new pump for water changes and he has some reasonable prices. I'll give you a call tonight.

 

[mchambers]

Ed's

does anyone purchase food from Ed's Almost Natural Tropical Fish Food? He's a long-time hobbyist who makes his own food. He has a cichlid flakes option, which I recently ordered. My peacocks won't eat it! I'd had his tropical fish food before (as well as spirulina flakes) before and liked it because it comes in much larger flakes. The NLS, which I use, seems to be mostly dust for at least half the container these days . . . Anyway, just curious. Other forums RAVE about this guy's food and it certainly looks and smells good to me. But to my fish, not so much . ..

I've ordered from Ed's and had good results with some products (sinking colored balls and some sinking pellets), and not such great results with others. I haven't tried the cichlid flakes.

I've also ordered from Ken's, and my fish love his food.

Not sure that whether the fish love it or not is the key. If it was, my son would be eating at every fast food place in town.

 

[dogofwar]

Cool - anyone else want in? www.kensfish.com

Shipping is basically actual cost so it's quite reasonable.

And a group buy is an excuse to meet and eat wings/drink beer/talk about fish...

Matt

We can do that. I need to get a new pump for water changes and he has some reasonable prices. I'll give you a call tonight.

 

[Ophelia77]

Cool - anyone else want in? www.kensfish.com

Shipping is basically actual cost so it's quite reasonable.

And a group buy is an excuse to meet and eat wings/drink beer/talk about fish...

Matt

Count Caleb in! we've been meaning to make an order anyway! I'll have him get in touch with you Asap

 

[minifoot77]

i have 7 items total 84 bucks b4 shipping who is taking money?

 

[dogofwar]

I'll start a new thread so as not to further derail Holly's (sorry )... but please just pay Ken directly... and we'll split shipping when we divvy up the box of goodies...

Matt

 

[hollyfish2000]

No worries Matt.

I think I'll try a bit more with the Ed's to see if it's just an adjustment period. Then I'll give it away. I got quite a large bag and there's no need to waste it just because my guys are picky . . .

 

[YSS]

In my experiences, often, it takes a few days for fish to start eating new food. For instance, it took my fish a week or more to start eating medicated flakes from Angelplus (I hear they also make great flake foods in general). Also, I recently bought freeze dried blackworms for my discus. People in the discus forum swore by them. About half of discus started eathing right away and went nuts for them. But the other half didn't care for them at all. It took more than a month, may be even two months, but now, all of my discus go crazy over them.