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King British Bloodworm
by abbiej1711 Blood worms are fantastic for fish! In fact, I prefer to feed my fish blood worms rather than flakes or pellets, and they seem to prefer it too! My fish will no longer take flakes, and they snap up blood worms like chocolate! I like to feed my fish blood worm, as it's a more natural food than factor processed flakes. I ... buy bloodworm and give it to my fish in three different ways- Live, frozen and freeze dried- which is this food I am reviewing. Many fish owners don't consider varying their fish diet, and stick to fish flakes! But blood worms are an amazing food for you fish, in fact it is required for fish like the bettas (fighting fish) and as it provides a high protein meaty diet, many fish which require a meatier diet such as the corydoras catfish really benefit from this treat. Although it may be best to use the live or frozen blood worms for the bottom feeders as it will sink to the bottom. This freeze dried version of the worms can be used in salt water, tropical and cold water tanks, and as far as I know it is widely available and can be bought from most pet shops at a reasonable price. I get through about a tub a month of these worms, and I only have two fish tanks! The fish I have include a very large amount of guppies and endlers, bristlenose catfish, kribensis, cherry barbs, corydoras and platys. As the huge amount of livebearers in my larger tank eat the worms before they reach the bottom, I know there isn't a build up of food in my tank. **Price** I buy these freeze dried King British blood worms from my local Pets at Home store for £3.69. Although I do occasionally pick them up for about £2.99 in smaller pet stores. There's a slightly cheaper bloodworm sold at pets at home, the the interpet costs just £3.29 but you only get a 4g tub! This King British tub gives you 7g- Not 9g like the website states!! So the King British version gives you more for your money. When I had one small tank, a tub of this last me a good few months, and if you are buying blood worm as a treat rather than a main diet, it will last a good while. However as I have quite a lot of fish and quite large tanks, I use at least 3 pinches of this stuff each time and it goes down pretty fast! **The Tub** The tub which holds these worms is the common fish food tub, a plain blue with a snap on circular lid. I've never had any problems with the lid, it's always been quite firm and I've never had any spillages! I also like to keep the tubs after they're empty, as they make excellent storage tubs for other foods and fishy products! **The Product** These freeze dried blood worms provide many beneficial minerals and vitamins for your fish. The freeze dried version is a bloodworm 'freeze dried immediately after harvest to retain flavour and nutritional value' which means they are just as beneficial as live blood worms. Although these are a sort of brownish in colour and not a deep red like they are live. You may find that some fish won't take freeze dried if they are used to the live type, as the live worms provide a more interesting dinner and as they wiggle they attract the fish, whereas the freeze dried does just sit on the top looking dry and boring! My fish took some time to get into this version, but now they take all three types easily and readily! This bloodworm is advertised as a 'complementary' food, to be fed against a complete fish food diet a few times a week. But I swear by this food, I also feed algae wafers for the catfish and other foods such as potato, peas, cucumber etc. but the blood worms are always the favourites! As these are a natural product, and not processed, the protein content and vitamins aren't listed on the tub. What I love about this freeze dried version, is they don't smell! Okay it can be argued they small a little if you sniff them, but a small child actually said they smell like chocolate! The live version stink, as they are usually bought in little sealed bags. The frozen version comes in cubes and leaves my fingers stinking of blood and iron for hours after! Probably my own fault for hand feeding my fish, but I can't be bothered to wear gloves every time I feed my fish! The freeze dried version doesn't cloud my tank, doesn't stink and is easy to use! **Feeding time** When feeding with these blood worms, I use my fingers to get out a pinch and drop them into my tank. If my hands are moist or slightly wet, the worms do tend to stick to my fingers but I usually rinse them in the tank then wash them off properly. The worms are usually quite soft and fluffy when I first buy them, then they sometimes go a little harder and crunchy towards the end of the pack although just lately they never last to that point! Either way, the fish always eat them, even when I give them the little powdery bits at the bottom of the tub! These freeze dried blood worms DO float, so if you want some worms for catfish or bottom feeders, then I wouldn't recommend these as they'll just get eaten by any other fish swimming to the top, or they'll take ages to soak up water and sink to the bottom and by then they'd have turned to mush and probably gone into the filter. I sometimes see that my smaller fish, usually the fry struggle to eat some of the larger worms as they are dry and if the fish can't hold onto them in their mouths, the worms will pop back up to the top of the water. Although there is a variety of sizes naturally in this food so my fry usually end up with the smaller bits, and either way they eat some eventually and it's great to see them try! As these worms are naturally high in protein, I find they benefit greatly to the growth of my fry as they provide a filling, natural food which supports their development. The great thing about having blood worms freeze dried or frozen, is you know they will be disease free and will (hopefully not) contain any nasty surprises. Often when I buy live blood worms, there are other little creatures in the bags, although I've googled these little bugs and my fish eat them as quick as the blood worms so hopefully there's nothing to worry about there! Thank you for reading! I also post on Ciao Read the complete review |
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Love Fish Tropical Fish Flakes
by katykicker === The product === A complete fish food (in flake form) for tropical fish. === The packaging === This comes provided in a plastic pot with a screw top lid. The packaging is sturdy and survived my cat investigating it so must be quite strong. === How to use === Simply sprinkle a ... few flakes per fish in to the tank and remove any uneaten flakes after a few minutes. === The cost === An 18 gram container is around £3.40 and a 50 gram container is around £7.20 so you can save money by purchasing the larger container. I initially purchased the 18 gram container before moving our fish on to pellets rather than flakes so I think I paid about £2.70 when on special offer in Pets At Home. === Overall opinion === We acquired a cat in 2010 and fish in 2011 and we have been learning lots about looking after them, keeping their tank clean, keeping them healthy and the best things to do to ensure that we need to change the water in the tank as little as possible. We have tried a variety of products recently to ensure that we get the best ones and this was one of the first products we tried and is actually one that we have stopped using now since learning that pellets will hopefully make for less wastage and mess in the tank. These are now reserved for an 'emergency' situation if we run out of pellets or something similar. This packaging is quite catchy and I guess it stuck in my mind because when we moved on to tropical fish pellets from flakes we ended up sticking with the same brand again! I like how the packaging stands out as there is a wide variety to choose from, particularly in Pets At Home. This packaging advised me to feed the fish 3 times a day and I found that this was too often for my fish. They were only eating on one, sometimes two occasions, and I ended up fishing a lot of bits of flakes out after 2 or 3 minutes to try and keep the water clean. This felt like a real waste to me and was partly why I started looking in to different products I could feed my fish. I have found, since switching to pellets, that they do still only want to eat once a day and usually just for one minute before getting bored/full and not eating any more again. These flakes are quite interesting to look at, if a little weird. They are little and large flakes, none a uniform size, and they are various shades of dark red and brown. They have a fishy smell to them (I always find that weird) which is strong but not offensively so and is not quite as putrid as other fish foods that I have smelt before. My fish were healthy enough while we were feeding them this. They were vibrant, had lots of energy, shot around a lot and no-one died while being fed this so that must be a plus point. My cat is interested in the little pot and I think she is attracted by the smell so she tries to investigate this pot a fair bit and as I mentioned above it withstood that well enough! Since switching from flakes to pellets I have noticed that my fish tank is a little cleaner for longer so maybe it is making a difference? Read the complete review |
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Interpet Freeze Dried Tubifex
by dawnmarywhite Interpet freeze dried Tubifex worms are a fantastically versatile food that can be used as a treat or part of the main diet, depending on what you are feeding. They are palatable, high in protein and can be fed to all tropical and marine fish, goldfish and (what I use them for) turtles, frogs and even land crabs! There are many great ... things about this food, one of which is that it's freeze dried - therefore there is no risk of passing on disease, as there often is with feeding live creatures. It also keeps well and the pack displays no use by date - my pack has been going for a seriously long time and what I have left is still perfectly fine. They come in a cardboard box with the product info on it, and the worms themselves are in a resealable plastic inner bag; the best thing, I think, about this food is that they are in cube form! This makes it completely mess free and aids in regulating the amount you are feeding. Each box contains 5g of product, and that equates to a lot of cubes (which are approx 1cm x 1cm x 1cm). I can't say for sure how many were in my box as I've had it for ages and used a few of them but I still have 6 left so I'd guess maybe 10 or 12 cubes? Each cube is grey in colour, dry and almost powdery to the touch (though it doesn't fall apart and is not dusty) and dissolves into a LOT of little worms! I find the best way to feed this, if you only need small amounts, is to use your fingernail to break a small piece off, and rub it between your fingers in the water, using a fingernail to scratch at it too. This lets the worms separate and float about to be snapped up by eager mouths. Of course if you are feeding a larger community tank you can simply drop a cube in - the water will dissolve it over time and I'm sure fishy mouths will nip at it to help it along. The cubes don't have any discernible smell, so nothing to offend there (unlike a lot of 'strange' foods!) They don't make a mess of your tank by clouding the water or anything like that. As I said, I use it mostly to feed aquatic frogs, land crabs and turtles and I have used it to feed fish as well. They all devour it eagerly, my little frog darts to the surface every time and I can almost see his smile when he realises it's a worm day! For the turtles it's given no more than once a week since it's high in protein, but the other creatures can get it more often. Since the cubes really expand you seriously don't need a lot so this is an excellent value food for a multitude of beasties. I paid £3.69 for it over a year ago if I remember correctly and since I still have about half of it left, I'd say that's good going. I would definitely recommend this. It's clean, keeps well just at room temperature, last ages, and is a good food in terms of protein. Unfortunately the only thing missing in my opinion is full nutritional information. I like to know details about what I feed my pets so for this it loses a star, as I think that's a reasonably big deal. Apart from that though, it's all good! Read the complete review |
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