How big do you like your flakes???

[Magnum Man]

buying specialty flakes ( and as someone who has run a dryer that produces flakes ) I'm seeing a big variance on flake sizes... most of the fish I feed flakes to, end up preferring the bottom of the container dust sizes... but with specialty products, I'm buying right now, I'm seeing 2-3 inch diameter flakes... I'm thinking of screening them down to go through a 1/4 inch screen, so flakes would be 1/4 inch or smaller...

do any of you feed any fish, that you actually prefer those big flakes... and just as a side question... what would be your preferred flake size???

 

[Naughts]

Not really answering the question, but the big flakes are useful to avoid overfeeding as you can count them and put them in individually. My small fish just bite/tear off a bit from the edges of larger flakes.

 

[Magnum Man]

I use a plastic long handled spoon to place food, in the tanks ( plants often have to be worked around ) and use a teaspoon, to add assorted dried foods I mix and feed at the same time, to that plastic serving spoon... quite honestly if the flakes are too big, it makes them harder to spoon out of my holding jars

 

[GaryE]

When I get new flakes in bags, I crush them up by hand by kneading the bag before I open it.

 

[gwand]

I like my flakes frosted. As Tony the Tiger said when I was a kid, “They’re Great!”

 

[GaryE]

I like big flakes and I cannot lie,
but I crush 'em up or at least I try.
Tetra Min you have to smell it,
Repashy you have to gell it,
If you give prepared foods a solid squeeze
they still can't compete with water fleas.

 

[gwand]

Water fleas
Are the bee’s
knees

 

[Fishmanic]

My flakes are the large size. I put them in a large diameter tray and I use my fingers till particles are an 1/8 inch diameter or smaller to feed to my tiny endlers. I feed my black skirt tetra and other fish about 1/4 inch or smaller diameter flakes. I feed my BN plecos algae wafers and they get some of the flakes that make it to the bottom of the tank.

I put the amount that I will use within a few weeks in a separate container and put the large original container in the freezer to keep the rest from going stale.