Aqueon Tropical Fish Food Flakes, 7.12 Ounces

Monster Can Of Fish Flakes & It Doesn’t Make Their Poop A Funny Color!
This is the third can of fish flakes that I have bought during my adult life. The first time we set up a fish tank we had tropical fish, with a Clown Fish and a Blue Damsel. We soon found out that our Blue Damsel was the Devil himself and he killed any other fish, crab, snail, or anything that we put in the tank with him. Therefore, our first can of fish flakes lasted a looooooong time since the Devil Fish was the only thing we were feeding. It wasn’t until an unfortunate Bio Bubble malfunction that the Devil fish died and we were able to have more than one fish. I can’t for the life of me remember the brand of the first can we had but once we had more than one fish we burned through the can fairly quickly. We got guppies. And if you know anything about guppies, 11 guppies quickly turned into over 40. The next can of fish flakes we bought had only orange flakes. Our biggest mistake was putting black rocks in the tank. The orange flakes made orange poop. And you could see every bit of it against the rocks. This can has a variety of different colors and does not make the fish poop a crazy color that stands out against the rocks or tank decor. We now have an uncountable amount of guppies. They all swim to the top when this giant can of fish flakes comes out. The price was unbeatable. We had seen this size in a store and of course, since I found it cheaper on Amazon, I ordered it here. I also appreciate that my small humans don’t have the dexterity to get this monster can of fish flakes open on there own, I don’t want to waste fish flakes by spilling them all over the place.

great price
exactly what i needed. on time and plenty food for a good stretch

Best fish food I’ve used
This is my go to fish food. The ingredients look recognizable which is good, and appear to work well. My fish are healthy. These are flakes so they can be broken down if they are too large.

Excellent Choice For Automatic Feeders
These flakes feed more consistently from my Neptune automatic feeder than any others I have tried. The flakes are half (or less) the size of other marine flakes such as the well regarded TetraMin Tropical Flakes, which I previously used. The Aqueon Tropical Flakes feed through the aperture in my automatic feeder in the same consistant amount almost every time without clogging or spilling. The TetraMin flakes did not.I received a free sample of the Aqueon flakes with another Amazon fish food order about 2 months ago, tried them, and I have been using the flakes since then. I have a 100 gallon high tech low nutrition saltwater reef system. I feed the Aqueon flakes in small amounts to my saltwater fish (2 Clowns, 4 Anthias, 1 Yellow Tang, 2 Banngai Cardinalfish, 1 Royal Gamma, 1 Blue/ Green Chromis and 1 Firefish) 3 times per day by automatic feeder. I also feed pellets in small amounts ( Hikari Marine S) three times per day by automatic feeder, and frozen food by hand once per day.The ingredient analysis on the Aqueon container shows that the flakes are slightly less nutritious than some others, e.g., TetraMin. For instance, the Aqueon flakes claim a “guaranteed” minimum “crude protein” analysis of 41% while TetraMin claims 47%. So one would have to feed slightly more Aqueon flakes (6% more) to reach the same level of protein nutrition as TetraMin. I don’t know what practical effect that difference has on either fish health or water quality, but it must have some. Time will tell if the difference is material. So far I have not noticed or detected any measurable effect, and I test my water every week.In my case, my tank and all my fish are less than one year old and not fully mature. My fish still prefer smaller foods. None of them have demonstrated any resistance to the smaller flakes, even the Banggai Cardinalfish, which are notoriously fussy. In any event, to me the convenience of using the flakes right out of the container with my automatic feeders (without having to crush them) outweighs the nutrition difference. I could never crush larger flakes into consistent smaller sizes that would consistently flow through my automatic feeder. The Aqueon Tropical flakes are all consistently small sized so they consistently feed from my Neptune automatic feeder without either clogging or over-feeding.

The flakes are good for my neons, they can easily slip them into small pieces. I bought pellets first but they are too big for my neons.

I liked nothing, I threw it in the trash

Much too big for my Bettas. They would choke on these.