LIVE FOOD vs FROZEN/FREEZE DRIED

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Nature's Delica Foods

This unique food eliminates the hassle of frozen foods! No freezing, No thawing, No waiting - It's That Easy! More than just real whole Bloodworms, Brine Shrimp and Waterfleas - it's a nutrient-rich gel with extra vitamins and minerals. Provides your fish with more nutrition ounce per ounce than many frozen foods tested. Nature's Delica comes in 16 easy-to-use, individual serving packets. You simply tear open a pack and squeeze out the needed amount of food. There is no need to ever touch the food or get your hands messy. The nutrient-rich gel does not dissolve in water, so your fish consume 100% of the food and nutrients. Feed one pouch per day in addition to your fishes' basic diet. Nature's Delica has a two year shelf life without refrigeration. Once a packet is opened, any unused food can be kept for twenty-four hours without refrigeration. Made from the finest ingredients. 1.68 ounces (48 grams) per box. Patent pending.

They come in Water Fleas (Daphnia), Brine Shrimp, and Blood Worms.

What do you guys think? I've been looking for some live blood worms to no avail, and it's too cold to start any Daphnia..plus I don't have too much room to work with..how do you think this would rate instead?

 

[gale]

I'd like to know too. I saw it at my lfs and would like to get it if it's any good. I have frozen bloodworms but it's really hard to break off a small piece.

 

[Synirr]

OMG, they still make that stuff??! I haven't seen any of that in forever!
I think it's a pretty good food. The fish seem to like it a lot, and coming from fish that refuse to eat their frozen bloodworms if I buy the wrong brand (have you ever heard of a pickier oscar and bichir??) that's a pretty big deal.
The only problem with it is that it sinks, so if you have fish that are used to eating from the surface, that can be a problem. It's perfect for my little bichir girl, though
Now that I know I can buy it online, I might order myself a few packages!

Edit: The individual packages are rather large. Each package contains about as much food as a frozen bloodworm cube does, so I wouldn't recommend this for like.. a single betta. You can always put the unused part of the package in the fridge and save it for later, though.

 

[The Squadron]

I've used these before, the Tetra Bloodworms and Brine Shrimps. They're a bit like the cat food you get in pouches and do not really break up in the water well enough, pieces quickly fall to the bottom in blobs.

You can't beat live food, although being a newbie I would be interested to hear about the benefits of high quality flake as part of a general diet.

 

[gale]

Edit: The individual packages are rather large. Each package contains about as much food as a frozen bloodworm cube does, so I wouldn't recommend this for like.. a single betta. You can always put the unused part of the package in the fridge and save it for later, though.

could other fish eat it too? I only have the 2 bettas but the female is in a community tank so if I fed something like this to her, the other fish would eat it too. I gave them tetra crisps and she liked it fine but I'll be feeding that tank frozen bloodworms at least every other feeding so she can get her meat. lol.

 

[fourplayfishy]

I'd like to know too. I saw it at my lfs and would like to get it if it's any good. I have frozen bloodworms but it's really hard to break off a small piece.

i took out a cube, put it in a bag, smashed it into little pieces and then do it that way... much easier and more effective

 

[Joby]

I recently bought some of this. Its ok, a bit gloopy but you don't have to get it on your hands, you can squeeze the packet and it goes straight into the water. Only trouble I found is that it tends to come out in one big dollop! Caught out my son's black moor the first time as he got a gob full of jelly and bloodworms

I feed it to all my fish including the coldwater one and they eat it so I guess they like it. I do sometimes notice the jelly bit is left on the floor of the tank for a while till my corys come along and scoff it.

I do think that frozen works out cheaper than these. I don't feed live foods anymore after I got a dragonfly larvae in my tank which ate all my babies and took the eye out of a guppy juvie


edited for bad spelling

 

[fourplayfishy]

aww poor guppy

 

[SRC]

A Dragon Fly Larvea? Where did it come from..and what ...are they carnivorous or something? I've never heard of anything like this? Please, if you don't mind, further detail?

 

[Joby]

We assume it came from live food I fed them about a month before I found it

Noticed my guppy fry were going missing over a few weeks and then my week old platy fry also disappeared. On bonfire night we were just about to go out and set off the fireworks when I noticed one of my 6 week old juvies had an eye missing! Her poor socket was all red and some of her cheek had gone I added melafix straight away and some salt. The only thing in the tank with the juvie guppies were neons and 2 adult platy.

Next morning when I put the light on to check on her this brown thing scuttled across the bottom of the tank It was around an inch long at least and had lots of legs and was going for my juvies!

I grabbed the net and got it out and took a picture of it, its a bit blury. This thing freaked me out. After a post in emergencies (I think) and looking on the net I found it was a dragon fly larvae which is a predadator and lives in water. I moved the fish, tore the tank apart but never found anymore. It was a good opportunity to change my substrate to sand anyway. Kelly, the one-eyed guppy is doing great and is as big as her brothers and sisters

Don't think I can bring myself to use live food anymore in case I get more of them

 

[SRC]

wOwzers!

That is wild..thanks for sharing that! Something to look for if you are feeding live foods imo.

Sorry about your babies though .

 

[Joby]

Thanks

Yes it wasn't nice. I always rinsed my live food very well in the net before feeding but I guess this guy slipped through

So its frozen and the jelly kind for me now

 

[SRC]

You could get you some of the small fruit flies. My fishies LOVE those lol. And you raise them yourself..so you know what's in the jars when you tap them out lol.

 

[gale]

i took out a cube, put it in a bag, smashed it into little pieces and then do it that way... much easier and more effective

Mine isn't in cubes. It's in one big flat mass of frozen worms. I wonder if it got thawed at one point-if so is it still ok to use? This is the only lfs within an hour to get frozen food.

Also I discovered if I leave it out for about 5 min or so it's easier to break off a small piece.

 

[AlexsDaddy]

I cut my BW cubes with a kinfe and let the chunk thaw in treated water.