After testing many, many different formulas for fish food pellets, our community fish unanimously love this high-protein, floating pellet. Every time we feed it to our livebearers, goldfish, bettas, barbs, and midsized tetras, they excitedly swarm to the top of the tank like a pack of mini piranhas. The pellets stay afloat at the water surface for an extended long time and are the perfect size for 1.5-4 inch fish.
Extended Hang Time
Our Community Pellet floats for extended amounts of time. Even if fish or filtration knock it lower into the water column it tends to float back to the top. This makes it easy to control feeding in your community tanks.
Perfect for Community Fish
This food handles 90% or more of all the community fish. Livebearers, midsize tetras, angelfish, barbs, and more. Basically anything that will feed from the surface will love it.
Whole Anchovy Meal, Whole Krill Meal and Whole Shrimp Meal
Your fish and shrimp will go crazy for this food because we've packed it
with great protein sources. Wheat Flour as the main binder to keep it
together and a multivitamin supplement to fill in gaps of your fish and
invertebrates dietary needs.
Higher Protein Means Faster Growth and Colors
Unlike most fish foods you buy at the pet store, our protein-packed formula is filled with 55% protein to grow fry quickly and color them up faster.
I find the food is the perfect food for a wide variety of fish as you can see from my video. The pellets has imo the perfect buoyancy.
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Eric S. (Uniontown, OH, US)
The whole tank loves it!
My community consists of a Powder Blue Dwarf Gourami, Rummy Nose Tetras, Serpae Tetras, Gold Barbs, YoYo Loach, Siamese algae eater, some Panda Cory's, and a Bristle Nose Pleco. Everything loves this stuff.
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Suzanne (Jamestown, NY, US)
He likes it!
These are the perfect size for my zebra danios & white cloud mountain minnows- but better yet, my betta loves them! And he is a very picky eater!
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Dave E.
Amazing food
This is the best food, it hovers in the water column from top to bottom. Very easy to tell if you have over fed.
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Mike H. (Auburn Hills, MI, US)
Great Fish Food!
I have been feeding this food for a couple of weeks now and my fish really enjoy it. It stays floating for an amazing amount of time. I tested it on a empty tank and I still had a couple of pellets floating that were still floating the next day (12 hours later). Amazing food for you medium sized fish. Highly recommend!
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Ben (Ogden, UT, US)
Apistos Like It
#1 thing to know about this food is the smell is like 1/4 the smell of the magic small fish feed. So when you open the container, your wife isn't gonna ask what died, and your dogs aren't gonna be harassing you for a taste.
It seems like my fish really like this pellet, especially my apisto macmasteri. They like feeding from the surface, and about 95% of these will stay floating/float back up if they get pushed down. The other 5% will slowly sink and then stick to whatever it hits for the most part.
I'll probably be buying this for my community tank, and my apisto pair when they're not breeding. Definitely seems like the fish really like it.
As a side note, sometimes it looks like 20% sink and don't float back up, and sometimes there are only a few pellets that'll sink. Not sure if it's luck of the draw, or currents or what. I'm sure I'll notice a pattern once I feed it more, but sometimes I'm surprised at how many sink.
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Andrew E. (Los Angeles, CA, US)
I wrote a previous review and wanted to put in a video of African Cichlids eating this food.
Neolamprologus Brichardi and a Julii - pretty happy!
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Corey S. (Troy, MO, US)
Incredibly Fun to Feed!
What an awesome food! It’s a great size—auto feeder friendly, fry and large fish alike go nuts for it. Shrimp and snails carry it around munching on it. It’s so much fun watching for 5 minutes or so after a feed. Everyone comes out to munch! I highly recommend giving it a try!
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Kate E. (Prosper, TX, US)
They really do float around
I was skeptical about these, I really like to find better floating food options for my fish, since so many of the small pellets just don't float. This is a really good one for my community tanks. Since they float long enough for all the fish to get a good feeding before either being gobbled by the more aggressive eaters, or the ones lower down. They float, sink a little, float back up, for real just like Cory said. I had to see it in my own tanks. The smell is a bit strong, but no problems, I guess that's why the fish love it.
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Dava M. (Atlanta, GA, US)
Betta approved!
All my fish love this food, but ultimate test was my finicky bettas. Took a week of “ignore it!, oh no I got it in my mouth!, hmmm not bad!, hey this is pretty good!” Now, they just want it period, and have discovered the “bouncing ball” effect and “prey” on it. Excellent job ACO!