So 1st off, Tilapia are vegetarian / omnivores... when the fry are born, they are totally vegetarian, and as they grow, they start to eat more bugs and such, but remain primarily vegetarian... My original Tilapia supplier uses these Zeigler Algae disks exclusively for fry... now that I'm breeding my own Tilapia, I'm using these for fry, & add one once in a while in my other aquariums... so far, everyone that eats algae wafers loves these...
This is what Lakeway Tilapia has to say about them...
"Manufactured by Zeigler Bros.®, a recognized leader in animal nutrition for over 80 years. These spirulina algae discs are an excellent first food for all tilapia. Required for tilapia fry and recommended for all tilapia fingerlings up to two inches. They are a bit pricey, but a pound goes a long way. Drop one disc per 100 fry into your tank twice a day to start. Watch their water quality and adjust the number of discs given as necessary. When the fry get to an inch long, start "weening" them off of the algae discs by slowly introducing AquaMax 300"
"It's safe to say that Purina AquaMax is the most researched and proven tilapia food available. However, when it comes to tilapia under two inches long there's something even better... Ziegler Algae Discs.
The most critical time in the development of a tilapia is arguably the first fifty days. With proper conditions and feeding, the tilapia will be "launched" into the fastest growth rates possible. Improper feeding will result in squandering their accelerated growth period and may even result in stunting them for life, but think about this... According to the chart above, Purina makes three different feeds for the first 50 days of life and you are supposed to feed them constantly! That's fine if you have 100,000 or more tilapia and use an industrial shaker-type feeder. But what if you have less than 1000, or even just ten? The answer is Ziegler Algae Discs.
The process couldn't be more simplified. Just drop in one algae disc per 100 fry and walk away. Come back in 12 hours, if it's gone drop in another. As the fry get larger, drop one in every six hours. When you notice that one disk isn't feeding everyone because the entire surface area is covered in fry and there's no more room at the "buffet" then start dropping in two discs at a time, then three, then four, etc, all the way until they get to an inch long. Then start adding Purina AquaMax 300 to their diet as they continue to grow. When they get to two inches long, stop feeding algae discs and continue with AquaMax 300 according to the charts on our tilapia feeding guide.
Each Ziegler Algae Disc contains the exact nutrition required to promote maximum growth rates with awesome ingredients including fish meal, spirulina algae, dried kelp and shrimp meal. Each sinking disc provides 30% protein and 7.5% fat with only 4% of finely milled crude fiber. This is important because if a young fish ingests something that it can't digest (like a stray soybean hull found in so-called "premium fish foods") it will die within hours. Wheat germ and high levels of Vitamin C, together with brewers yeast help to promote healthy development of gills, fins and other tissues. As an added bonus, the highly digestible finely ground ingredients promote less waste and increased water clarity.
Ziegler has been around since 1935 and been making aquatic diets since 1967, so you can trust their quality as much as we depend on it."
you can buy them in smaller packages from Lakeway on Amazon...
this is Zeigler's website... https://www.zeiglerfeed.com/aquatic/aquarium/algae-disc/
looks like Zeigler also makes pellets & flakes... I only have experience with the wafers... the fry instinctively find them, & eat them, & grow quickly... any omnivore pleco love them, my Armano shrimp just love them... so many climb on them, when I drop one in, you often can't even see the wafer... these are larger size disks, probably close to 3/4 of an inch
anyone ever tried these, or the pellets or flakes from Zeigler???
These fingerlings are not very old, but grow really fast on the algae wafers, more than doubling in size every week
This is what Lakeway Tilapia has to say about them...
"Manufactured by Zeigler Bros.®, a recognized leader in animal nutrition for over 80 years. These spirulina algae discs are an excellent first food for all tilapia. Required for tilapia fry and recommended for all tilapia fingerlings up to two inches. They are a bit pricey, but a pound goes a long way. Drop one disc per 100 fry into your tank twice a day to start. Watch their water quality and adjust the number of discs given as necessary. When the fry get to an inch long, start "weening" them off of the algae discs by slowly introducing AquaMax 300"
"It's safe to say that Purina AquaMax is the most researched and proven tilapia food available. However, when it comes to tilapia under two inches long there's something even better... Ziegler Algae Discs.
The most critical time in the development of a tilapia is arguably the first fifty days. With proper conditions and feeding, the tilapia will be "launched" into the fastest growth rates possible. Improper feeding will result in squandering their accelerated growth period and may even result in stunting them for life, but think about this... According to the chart above, Purina makes three different feeds for the first 50 days of life and you are supposed to feed them constantly! That's fine if you have 100,000 or more tilapia and use an industrial shaker-type feeder. But what if you have less than 1000, or even just ten? The answer is Ziegler Algae Discs.
The process couldn't be more simplified. Just drop in one algae disc per 100 fry and walk away. Come back in 12 hours, if it's gone drop in another. As the fry get larger, drop one in every six hours. When you notice that one disk isn't feeding everyone because the entire surface area is covered in fry and there's no more room at the "buffet" then start dropping in two discs at a time, then three, then four, etc, all the way until they get to an inch long. Then start adding Purina AquaMax 300 to their diet as they continue to grow. When they get to two inches long, stop feeding algae discs and continue with AquaMax 300 according to the charts on our tilapia feeding guide.
Each Ziegler Algae Disc contains the exact nutrition required to promote maximum growth rates with awesome ingredients including fish meal, spirulina algae, dried kelp and shrimp meal. Each sinking disc provides 30% protein and 7.5% fat with only 4% of finely milled crude fiber. This is important because if a young fish ingests something that it can't digest (like a stray soybean hull found in so-called "premium fish foods") it will die within hours. Wheat germ and high levels of Vitamin C, together with brewers yeast help to promote healthy development of gills, fins and other tissues. As an added bonus, the highly digestible finely ground ingredients promote less waste and increased water clarity.
Ziegler has been around since 1935 and been making aquatic diets since 1967, so you can trust their quality as much as we depend on it."
you can buy them in smaller packages from Lakeway on Amazon...
this is Zeigler's website... https://www.zeiglerfeed.com/aquatic/aquarium/algae-disc/
looks like Zeigler also makes pellets & flakes... I only have experience with the wafers... the fry instinctively find them, & eat them, & grow quickly... any omnivore pleco love them, my Armano shrimp just love them... so many climb on them, when I drop one in, you often can't even see the wafer... these are larger size disks, probably close to 3/4 of an inch
anyone ever tried these, or the pellets or flakes from Zeigler???
These fingerlings are not very old, but grow really fast on the algae wafers, more than doubling in size every week
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