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Your Fish Food Could Be Harming Your Aquarium in More Ways Than You Think!
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2024
- Hello Everyone,
In this video we discuss on quality fish food can make your tank look better and make it easier to maintain your aquarium.
If you want to learn more about how we feed our fish to maximize fish health check out this video:
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If you want to learn more about how we feed our fish to maximize fish health check out this video:
Visit flipaquatics.com and use the coupon code primetime20 to get 20% off your Northfin Fish Food order!! Coupon code is good from 7/24/20 - 7/26/20.
Also, our new shirts can be found at: www.primetimeaquatics.com/merch
For the latest in the fish room check us out on Instagram primetime_aquatics
Thanks primetime and flip Aquatics!!🙏🐟🌱🌿
Btw, greetings from the Netherlands. Just started an aquarium and you are one of the youtubers I start following recently. As a non-American watcher I only have one request and that is whenever you talk about temperature also to show Celsius besides Fahrenheit. Gallons to liters roughly works out (3,5) and 4 feet makes roughly 120cm. But Fahrenheit to Celsius always brakes my brain. I know USA is your main audience, but I would love to see if the channels from the USA are ‘world’-friendly. Same comment would apply for co-op and others. Keep up the good work!
Good point!
Same I am a non American
Thanks for the video. I read the ingredients on my fish foods to make sure there are not a lot of fillers. I appreciate the time and effort to make these videos. I always get excited when I get a notification from Prime Time Equatics!👍
Thanks Marty! Glad you are here!
Great information, thanks.
I once ran out of shrimp food due to poor planning and fed them fish food, big mistake, most fish foods contain copper sulphate, lost half my Neocaridinas.
The Amanos didn't seem to mind, tough little devils.
Did a lot of aggressive water changes and substrate cleaning plus a good dose of Aquasafe+, that must have cleaned up any copper left in the tank because the survivors are doing quite well and are reproducing.
If anyone keep fish with shrimp, check the ingredients of your fish food, you may be poisoning your shrimp.
I keep shrimp only and fish only tanks.
Great topic and so very important. This is a food I'm definitely interested in and hopefully will be able to get this weekend! Thank you for sharing your experience! This is one of the best channels out there the fish care and we love you guys 🙏❤️🌱🐟
Thank you! So glad you are here. :-)
Hi Mary, we know the best channels for sure. 😀👋
@@markhaunert5029 we do! Great to see you here!!!♥️😁✌️
Big fan of Northfin here. Only thing I don't like is they don't use as much variety of Algae as NLS does, I think mixing NLS algaemax as 10-20% diet with northfin pellets works out pretty good.
Northfin looks like great food and flip aquatics website is impressive, unless i do a $100 order any 20% off ,the shipping will be tripple that. Ill make a big order later but by that time the 20% is over
Hey Jason, here's a suggestion: how about when you do a "talking head" kinda video, you show us more of your tanks, like when you did with that 150. In my opinion, as great as your beard is, fish win.
Please, don't take it the wrong way. I simply want to see more of your tanks...
Mua!
I try to do that as much as I can. :-)
I agree lol
Meh, I enjoy the professor-style videos.
I really love the fact you think of these nerdy topics that nobody else thinks about that are insanely important. This one more than some of the others but just like the would changing the pH of the water and other videos like that are a great idea. I feed Xtreme big fella pellets to my Oscar and they sink so fast he misses a lot of them and it gives me extremely poor water quality. I'm actually looking to switch to a pellet that floats longer to give him more opportunity to eat it instead of it rotting on the bottom of the tank. Thank for the great video!!
I've had that problem too. The food sticks tend to float for a long time.
Thanks for the video excellent don’t comment much .But i have to say you video are excellent I started keep fish in the 60s and boy it’s gone crazy. Thanks Jason stay safe. George in England Uk 🙏👍
Thank you so much for being here!
I use Russian fish food. I use the Rybiata brand because I like its contents. Rybiata means baby fish. It goes in flakes and pellets. Its ingredients: gammarus, daphnia, fish meal, grass meal, cereals, shrimp meal, gluten, spirulina, vitamins and minerals. 40% protein, 4% fat, 9% ash.
Very helpful info Jason. Thanks for sharing your expertise. I will certainly order Northfin food from Flip Aquatics. I have ordered from Flip Aquatics and love this company. Have a great week 😁
Good to hear!
Great topic, I only feed Krill a couple hours before a water change and turn my main filter off so it doesn't pick any up and stink.
For Goldfish I don't do any cheap foods or pellets anymore just cause swim bladder issues over and over.
#1 Pellet for me is Fresh & Natural goldfish ultra color, has a nice veggie to protein mix and is more digestible then Hikari and almost no smell whatsoever.
#2 Repashy SuperGold gel food, best food there is for goldfish and most digestible of all but does break into tiny particulates and turn tank slightly green if fed every single day.
#3 Hikari Lionhead, tons of protein, stinks like crazy fish and can stink up the water for a couple hours after feeding (my wife has a wolverine nose and always points it out), fish absolutely love it.
Your channel is one of my very favorites always inspiring I look at your tanks that I see how beautiful they are and how far they’ve come I’d like to segment on food for fish I wish you would’ve shown more pictures or containers of food so that when I see them in the storeI know where to look for because I can’t always buy things online so good places to go to buy food will be like Petsmart or Petco what types of food do they have that is good food to feed your fish
THANK YOU for covering this! Maybe cover how Fluval shrimp food has copper sulfate in it and explain how copper is toxic to shrimp? I understand they need trace amounts but the amount found in the food is WAY too high for inverts.
I use live/frozen food in the morning and quality flake food in the evening.
No problems.
I don’t like fish meal so I stick to NLS & Omega One. Fluval Bug Bites gives them a nice change of protein. I’m trying Xtreme to see if the fish like it as a change of pace. I think I need to get some earthworm pellets somewhere - Zoomed used to make it and fish went nuts for it. Nothing wreaks havoc in the tank like when my wife brings live earthworms in from the garden. It’s like the old Shamu splash zone at SeaWorld.
Whole fish is fish meal. Some companies just put fish meal in their formula, give it a different name on the label, and lie about the definition of “meal” so then you can skip brands like Hikari or Xtreme thinking you’re getting some higher quality fish. The fish meal in Tetramin for example is whole fish sourced from Scandinavia. New Life Spectrum has explained that fish meal means fish that has been dried up and turned into a powder and the whole fish in their ingredient list is indeed fish meal.
I've seen a million videos about not overfeeding your fish and choosing the right ingredients in your fish food but not a lot of people talk about the consistency and how it floats or sinks and how that may affect your water quality
Hey discus guys, personally i have never seen discus take so quickly to a non live or frozen than I've seen with NORTH FIN BUG PRO. Look at the ingredients also. Top notch for color and gut health. IMO. thanks
Good to hear!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics it was actually amazing Jason. I'm talking about discus literally spoiled by brine, black and blood worms and minced earthworms. Mysis shrimp and some heart. Bug pro is completely eaten in minutes. Excellent channel and product your behind. 👋
Mark Haunert, I have discus also. Unfortunately they won’t eat the Northfin foods. Even though, Northfin has good quality ingredients. Glad your discus like it. Mine will only eat frozen meat products. Happy fish keeping.🙂🐟
@@martyborst5645 hi marty. I know exactly what you're talking about. I have the same issue with mine. The only product that they took to readily was the bug pro. None of the other colbalt or northfin products held their interest. Had you tried the bug pro??? I dont know if was ghe shape or smell. Appreciate your input. 👋
Feeding your fish correctly and picking the right foods I believe is one of the most important skills, if not the most important skill you need to keep fish in captivity.
Agreed!
Absolutely
love these types of videos... obviously they get you views.. but would love some more of the actual tanks u have
Thanks for the great advice! I'll give North Fin a try. My discus seem to like TetraPro. I've read they can get sick from eating raw meat or live worms, idk anything though. I'm new.
I don't do raw meat because of the water quality issues it creates.
My discus really took to northfins bug pro. And they are spoiled on brine, blood and black worms and cut up earthworms. All my fish like bug pro actually.
Here in east of Europe we dont have Northfin food for fish. We have Norwin, i wonder if its a similar product...
Great video👍👌👍
Now that would be interesting. :-)
im not sure if you have done it or know anything about them but could you do a video on caring and breeding ram chiclids
I have this one: czcams.com/video/yh66CXYsEH0/video.html
In the past I have never really check the ingredients, just bought a selection of foods. Will definitely be checking out the ingredients from now on.🤓
It's always interesting to see what is in certain foods. :-)
Don't get flakes here in India, I'll try to find some. Nice video.
Don't get flakes, pellets are better.
@@TheRuturaj001 ok, thanks. I already use pellets so i guess am good.
So, Northfin huh? I've heard its hard to get fish to take it. I've never tried it before because of that. I have been using Formulas One and Two by Ocean Nutrition. I've also mixed in Cobalt flakes when I can get it. Recently I bought a ?jug? of Xtreme so I can try that as a possible alternative. Where would you put Northfin on a scale with those products? I know you're sponsored by them and you've been using that product for a while but I have found you to be pretty open with your views on the how's and why's of things and I trust your opinion.
Northfin, Extreme and NLS are all at the top. I like Northfin's variety compared to the others a little more.
Its funny how we all have different situations. As soon as i started using north fin bug pro they instantly took to it. Including spoiled discus.
Thank you Jason I just saved $25 on Northfin food with your coupon code!
Good to hear!
Gotten to the point that I’m locked on to just a couple foods from stores. The newest food I found the last Aquatic Experience when I met you. Came back with a ton of samples and only buy one of the ones I tried.
Will you share what food it is?
Makia Pierson bugbites, repashy,tetracolor granulersand extrem krill flakes and tofu are the only store foods I feed.
I am going to try the Northfin Community Flake.
Hope you enjoy it!
I had been feeding Aqueon tropical flakes for a long time, but began having trouble sourcing it.
Decided to try Northfin community flake since I used to feed Northfin pellets when I had larger fish (I'm purely nano fish now).
At first the fish were not receptive to the Northfin flakes, but I kept feeding it.
One day I tried to feed the Aqueon flakes and the fish refused to touch it; they wanted their Northfin flakes 😁
Nice video again!!
See you from belgium 🇧🇪🇧🇪
Thank you!
I feed extreme sinking and floating pellets.
i love northfin foods! unfortunately i live in singapore where no one stocks it and i only got to try it when i went to hawaii and brought some back
That's one way to do it. :-)
Hi! I really like watching your Channel. It has helped me with all sorts of things. Please, I need help... My siphon hose is moldy. How can I clean it safely? Please help!
Bekah Aldrich those aren’t easy to clean. 10% bleach solution might work. Just run it though the hose. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much!
I've noticed better quality flakes are fluffier, lighter and less dense feeling then bad quality flakes...
That is very true!
Hey Jason great video as always very helpful advice. My question in on a sponge filter I know youve done a video on these my question is this would I need more than one sponge filter in a 75 gallon tank. Or is one gonna be enough
If that is all you are going to use I would run two about the size of a hydro IV - one on each end.
Would you recommend anything else as far as a hang on back filter to run as well as the others also. Any help is appreciated
Thank you i like your channel.
Thank you!
Hey I have a quick question? I have a black sand 20 long and I am having trouble keeping plants alive. Any ideas? I’m also using natural sun light for lighting
That could be part of it? Maybe not quite enough light getting into the tank depending on where it is located. Also, adding ferts (either liquid for column feeders or root tabs for root feeders) can help.
So this was a giant plug right?
I have some kind of white stuff that's stuck on everything in my tank. My tank is close to being cycled and now this. It's been doing great up till July 28th . Ammonia ,25 nitrates 10 sometimes 40 I do weekly water changes please help
selena so blessed Mckibben that is a biofilm that tends to go away once the tank is cycled.
What would you recommend for a Cichlid community tank? They love the frozen foods but won't touch the pellets or flakes that are supposed for Cichlids.
Depends on the types of cichlids. For the most part we use a combo of Northfin pellets, cichlid flake, frozen brine (and frozen blood worms for those fish that can eat it). Kelp flakes are good for many of our African cichlids too.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks for replying. Ill definitely give that a geez.
Recently on the live you’ve mentioned a snail/algae wafer that a young person makes that you love. What’s the brand/website? I keep meaning to write it down and forget!
Kats Aquatics and the website is Flip Aquatics. :-)
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you!!
What is a good brand of fish tank stand for a 29 gallon
I'm not sure since we build all of our own stands? I will say most of the ones found at the Big Box stores are adequate usually.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics do you think metal would be better that wood
Can bloodworms her dangerous for water quality if the fish don’t eat them all in one day ? I think I’ve exaggerated and gave too many of them today and my fish are not eating all of them , so I think they’ll eat them all only within a few days , can it be dangerous for them to share the tank with the bloodworms still alive ?
Great question! Yes, I would remove the uneaten bloodworms. They can foul up the water pretty good.
Is that a frontosa in your 75 with the severum?
That's actually a 4ft 150 gallon, but yes - they have been together for quite some time living peacefully together. :-)
My fish food first few ingredients are fish meal, dried yeast and shrimp meal is this a healthy food for my fish?
Not a huge fan of the dried yeast, but if your fish are eating it and appear healthy/active and you're happy with the way yoru tank looks I'm not sure I would worry about making any immediate changes.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics ok thanks!!!!!
Food that swells are dangerous, esp for this fish which swallow whole pellets or wafers.
Yes they are - I've seen some bad things happen to African cichlids because of it.
Everyday feeding frozen bloodworm is it good or bad for fish please give suggestions??
Feeding a single food, even a good one, is not a good idea in the long run. A variety of quality foods is the way to go.
I'm a big fan of variety. :-)
But their is problem in variety food
If fish take frozen bloodworma or like worms they don't like or take the regular pallet food i face this problem every time.
I hope the severum and frontosa don’t try to eat the clown loach! I’ve had my severum try to eat one before and had to tap him with a chopstick to get him to spit the loach back out.
The clowns are too big for them to eat I think. You are right - once those spikes come out on the sides of the clown it's game over for everyone involved.
I was thinking the same thing but he feeds his fish so well they’re probably not interested 😂
where are the tinfoil barbs and the bala shark?
We're actually going to talk about that on Monday's video. Short story - had some bad tap water that wiped out a number of fish over the course of two days.
Just buy Hikari or Fluval bites and profit
Omega One is pretty good too.
Avoid TetraMin at all costs.
First ingredient: POTATO MEAL
@@kinglyzard I agree Omega One is a quality food. I looked at the ingredients of my Hikari Blood Parrot food and the second ingredient is a corn binder!
@@underthebus5801
I'm more picky about my fish's food than I am about my own, I'm afraid.
But I do try to stay with whole, unprocessed foods for personal consumption whenever possible
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