Atison's Betta Starter?

[BlueBettaUSA]

'How does it move"...just like BBS ! Each piece has tiny air pockets that keep the feed particles in the water column, not on the bottom of the tank.

 

[wuvmybetta]

What the hecks going on in here?!?

EDIT~ Thank you, that's pretty interesting. I have more to say but I have to go pick up my kid. The air IN the food is curious....

 

[supersixone]

'How does it move"...just like BBS ! Each piece has tiny air pockets that keep the feed particles in the water column, not on the bottom of the tank.

yes, i did observe it moving and swirling as it was intended to do. it took a long time before it made it to the bottom, but by and large the fry didn't pay any attention to it. perhaps if i kept feeding it eventually they would all learn to take it, but i would prefer not to take the risk of any of them going hungry when i have perfectly good live food that they all eat voraciously. i don't doubt it is a nutritionally sound product since i am very pleased with the other items in the atison line, but my fry just didn't take to it. is there a particular reason it should not be fed past 1 month of age? i could see this perhaps being more useful to me in weaning them from live foods to nonlive.

 

[wuvmybetta]

I'd like to know about the one month thing as well, since I was considering trying it at that age. I'm always open to new things after they get off of bb and mw's.

 

[supersixone]

I'd like to know about the one month thing as well, since I was considering trying it at that age. I'm always open to new things after they get off of bb and mw's.

right? you'd think it would make a great transistion food, if it's a formulated product that moves like live food. as i said before, my older betta fry were more willing to eat it, so i'd be curious to know why 1 month is the cutoff age.

 

[ral]

Haven't tried it yet, since it is not available here... but, I think it might be easier of you started feeding it on day 3. Once the fry get used to live foods, they will find it harder to accept pellets. Have had the same problem with adult betta's who are fed live food daily. It takes time for the to get used to pellets. My fry have been fed with crushed egg yoke since day 3, they are now at 1 week... so I guess they must be eating the egg yoke.

 

[Synirr]

I've heard minor complaints against the adult pellet that Atison produces, supposedly it swells up 3X the size of Hikari. Overall, I'll stick with what I know and that's Hikari.

Can't say i've noticed this... I use the Pro pellets as one meal for my juvies almost every day, they LOVE it. I can understand why too, apparently the main ingredient is brine shrimp embryos

while i can tell them that all their fellow fry in thailand and malaysia and other parts of asia are eating it, i don't think that will have much sway

That's what I was thinking.

I wonder if maybe it seems to work so well because when you breed on the scale Atison does, you don't really notice if not all the fry make it? I'm sure some, possibly many, fry will take it, but the ones that don't are just out of luck. I imagine those lovely outdoor holding containers filled with live plants are wonderful breeding grounds for infurosia too.

 

[supersixone]

I imagine those lovely outdoor holding containers filled with live plants are wonderful breeding grounds for infurosia too.

i thought about that also. tanks kept outdoors would contain natural live food, one would think...