Hikari 8.8-Ounce Cichlid Gold Floating Pellets for Pets, Mini
$13.99
Price: $13.99
(as of Oct 17, 2025 02:56:11 UTC – Details)
Product description
About Hikari
Hikari, the “originator” of Species Specific and premium aquatics diets has been copied by many, but our loyal customers know they can always depend on our products to offer their aquatic pets the finest in scientifically balanced nutrition. For almost 140 years we’ve spent considerable time exploring natural habitats of fish, breeding fish in our own facilities, producing diets in our own factories, processing every shipment through our own facilities and researching the impact our diets have over time. These unique insights into the nutritional needs of fish give a competitive advantage no other fish food maker can duplicate and allow us to produce species specific diets that will not only maintain your aquatic pets’ health, but assist you in keeping your aquarium or pond in top form.
We make the health and longevity of the fish and the aquatic environment they live in our first priority. Focusing on bringing about success to the hobbyist through exacting nutrition has allowed us to develop a brand name synonymous with superior quality. Consider using Hikari, because you love your aquatic pets as much as they love you!
Why Customers Choose Hikari
RESEARCH
We feel it’s our duty to constantly investigate the natural ecology of fish to make the best food for them. Our exploration to Irian Jaya, Lake Malawi in Africa, Guiana highland, the Indian Ocean, the jungle of Southeast Asia and the Holy River Ayeyawady and others, offer us many secrets to fish health, coloration, breeding requirements, water conditions and quality.
SPECIES SPECIFIC DIETS
Hikari offers a wide variety of diets for different species of fish, each offering unique characteristics which enable it to be readily accepted by the specific fish it was developed for, which is where Species Specific originated. This attention to detail allows you to be confident your choice will be quickly devoured by even the most finicky eaters.
TECHNOLOGY
Our first hand experience breeding and raising fish, and the scientific data we can collect during this process, give us a clear road map for future product improvements and enhancements. Hikari uses actual experience and physical practice instead of marketing schemes or unproven theory to develop our premium aquatic diets!
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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 9.1 x 1 x 3.7 inches; 0.32 ounces
Manufacturer recommended age : 1 month and up
Item model number : 04228
Department : Unisex-Adult
Date First Available : June 20, 2004
Manufacturer : Phillips Feed & Pet Supply Natural Balance
ASIN : B00025Z6G6
Best Sellers Rank: #20,084 in Pet Supplies (See Top 100 in Pet Supplies) #173 in Aquarium Fish Food
Customer Reviews: 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,779 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); });
Brings out natural, brilliant colors while reducing washed out colors
Nutritious diet with added vitamins including Vitamin C to support cichlid health
Vitamin E offers increased amino acid levels
High protein levels, improving growth rates
High in beta carotene and NS Germ, brings out natural brilliant colors
Customers say
Customers find this fish food to be of good quality, with their pets eating it ravenously and one customer noting it’s a staple for their cichlids. The pellets bring out fish colors and don’t cloud the water, while customers consider it good value and report their fish are wonderfully healthy. However, the size receives mixed feedback, with several customers noting the pellets are larger than expected.
Zachary Felder –
Fish love it
Great for my fish. I mix this with some other food as well.
Thomas –
Good price
They love it
Cynthia Caldarone –
Great Product
My fish love this food. They are healthy, colorful and growing. I would highly recommend it.
Crystal jones –
5 star
Fish live it
Mary –
NEXT SIZE for MY GROWING DISCUS
I started with the smallest size pellet of this same food for my young Discus. Once they got to spawning size they weren’t interested in “tiny” food. This size is perfect for them as mature fish. They get an assortment of dry foods that I mix together, so they get a variety at each feeding. Hikari products & Tetra are the only foods I use for my fish, especially the Discus who live with a big school of Rasboras and several Cory cats. This got 4 stars only because the Discus gobble their sinking food first, then go after these which are still floating.
kwithaj –
Hikari Cichlid Gold Large Pellet — 8.8 oz
My lemon yellow Cichlids love these pellets more than any others I have tried.I accidentally ordered large pellets last time and they’re too big for their mouths and I have to crush them.My fish are in a 125 gallon tank with a lot of cover and the fish hide when they hear doors or someone walking near the tank.These pellets float and the fish overcome their inhibitions and become predators.They seem to have fun stalking and striking them.I love them too since my fish do.The little fish don’t get very many so I feed flake food too, but I highly recommend these for Cichlids.
Casey K –
Only food i buy for my South Americans
This is the only fish food I will buy for my South American cichlids. You can tell it is high quality because the fish have good healthy looking feces rather than a long stringy feces. You can read the ingredients and see that it is mostly high quality meat. My fish have better color than when I used different fish food.
Bob –
My oscar loves it
Bought two baby oscars today and tried to feed them cichlid gold mini and they ate em, but they seem to have a little difficulty swallowing them so I had to split them in half, but they seem to like it.*It’s been three weeks and my oscar have grown from 1.0-1.5 inch to about 3 inches now, and they used to have trouble eating one pellet per day to now each eating around 30 pellets a day! Great for Oscar cichlids that’s over 2 inches.
Floreana Ugo –
I pellets sono un po grandi, vanno bene solo per grandi ciclidi.Sono però di qualità anche se un po’ cari.Unico neo affondano troppo ve.locemente
Paul –
For a 2oz bag of fish food, this is a complete rip-off. I will never order again as the large bag is same price at local store.
Becky –
Floating cichlid food that satisfies even a huge adult blood parrot’s appetite.Though a seemingly small pouch, it lasts for a long time, making it good value for money.The pellets are quite small, which suits the fish’s fondness for hunting around for them and less getting wasted from chewing. A bonus that they are really easy to fish out of the tank if uneaten, keeping the tank as clean as possible. Great stuff.
Divya –
Always awesome… Enhances color and apetite
Dirk –
Sehr gutes Futter für unsere Barsche. Werden wir auch immer wieder bestellen. Die Tiere leben richtig auf und sind sehr farbenprächtig geworden.