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Thoughts on Ken's Fish premium food?

Digital

Digital

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Anyone have experience with the cichlid pellets and spirulina flakes sold on ken's fish.com? I went on to buy their metro infused flakes and ended buying a little of everything.

Marlin

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mchambers

mchambers

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I've used the spirulina flakes, which seemed fine. I've also used other Ken's food, with perfectly fine results. I don't know if it's better than other foods, but it seems fine.
 
Becca

Becca

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I use the blackworm flakes and the fish love them, plys they seem to induce spawning almost as well as the real thing.

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Ading522

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my fish love the spirulina flakes from kens.. its not only the food thats awesome for fish in kens.. lots of little bits and goodies in there for great prices!
 
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toddnbecka

Members
I tried the spirulina flakes, but prefer the veggie flakes because they actually have more veggie content along with the spirulina. The fish will eat anything remotely resembling (flake or pellet) food regardless of brand or nutritional content, canned green beans are pretty popular too.
 
dogofwar

dogofwar

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I've also used a variety of Kens products for years and had good results. He sells lots of foods of his own and lots of the commercial brands.

What fish will eat and what is nutritious are two different things. You really need to look at the ingredients - they're all not the same.

One thing I learned from Les Wilson's talk on fish food (at the ACA) and hopefully in 2015 for our club is that spirulina is bitter and unpalatable for most fish. It needs to be balanced with other ingredients or the fish won't eat it. That said, I've fed Ken's Tropheus Lovers flake with great results (as well as used the pure spirulina powder).

I'm a big fan of his new medicated flake. There's a ton of garlic in it and the fish eat it up (a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down) :)

Matt
 
mchambers

mchambers

Former CCA member
Yep

dogofwar said:
I've also used a variety of Kens products for years and had good results. He sells lots of foods of his own and lots of the commercial brands.

What fish will eat and what is nutritious are two different things. You really need to look at the ingredients - they're all not the same.

One thing I learned from Les Wilson's talk on fish food (at the ACA) and hopefully in 2015 for our club is that spirulina is bitter and unpalatable for most fish. It needs to be balanced with other ingredients or the fish won't eat it. That said, I've fed Ken's Tropheus Lovers flake with great results (as well as used the pure spirulina powder).

I'm a big fan of his new medicated flake. There's a ton of garlic in it and the fish eat it up (a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down) :)

Matt
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+1 on this.

This is why I said Ken's food seems fine, but I'm not convinced it's better for our fish than some of the other products. Ken's food has a fair amount of binders (wheat, soy, or gluten, typically). Some of the premium foods do not.

I'm not knocking Ken's food, mind you, just saying that I really don't know what is best for our fish.
 
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b considine

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I'm a fan of Ken's foods, especially the veggie sticks with calcium. They're great for shrimp. No copper.

Blaise
 
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