New Life Spectrum Naturox Optimum All Purpose Flakes 90g Fish Food

My first experience with New Life Spectrum wasn't so great. I bought some of their micro pellets and they ended up being too large for most of my fish mouths. Once the pellets sank, my bottom dwellers also didn't seem to take a large interest in them either. Despite that, I decided to try another of their products because New Life Spectrum is well regarded my the fish keeping community.This 90 gram or 3.2 oz can of fish food doesn't seem like much, but it really is a large quantity of food. Fresh out of the container the flakes are on the large side. So large, you will end up having to crush them between your fingers before feeding them to the typical fresh water tank stock. I personally keep rainbow fish and mollies and they weren't able to eat the flakes out of the container unless I ground them up first. This is my only annoyance with this product, but if you got fish with larger mouths then this shouldn't be a problem.As with all foods, the way your fishy friends will react is a mystery. Thankfully, my fish were very receptive of this food. The rainbowfish ate it and my mollies went nuts for it. Even my chain loaches and corrydoras would swim up to get the flakes. Before I fed them this food I was feeding them Omega One freshwater flakes.Another thing I like about these flakes is the ingredients. It has krill, squid, fish and seaweed to ensure a good balanced diet. Unlike cheaper economy fish food that is mostly a bunch of fillers like corn and wheat or the dread mystery fish meal.Overall, this is some good food for your community freshwater tanks. Most fish are quite receptive to it and that's probably in part because of the garlic in the food. My rainbows look just as good as ever and now that I'm at the bottom of this container. I have no doubts to get another for my fish to enjoy.

My husband keeps large fish tanks and feeds a variety of fish foods he blends together. The New Life Spectrum foods have been a part of this fish food variety for some time.

The container is big and the flakes are big also. You can easily break the flakes to a smaller size suitable for the size of your fish. Very good main ingredients and my fish love the flavor.

While I had some of my previous ordered NLS flake food left (almost 2 years already a great buy) I figured I would try the new version with squid now added . Some things I noted ;The container and label has not changed from the previous version. Although NLS went to a new “naturox” it’s not listed on the jar, label etc so I thought I got the old formula. It was not till I compared the ingredients and various vitamins did I notice this was the new formula. I would think NLS would look to market this a little better but when you have a great product , it speaks for it self.While the older version had red and green flakes, the new version has flakes that are all the same color (beige). Comparing the ingredients and vitamins the new version has higher vitamin content along with more crude fiber so I guess the squid kicks it up to a new levelThe true test is the fish and I must say as soon as it was dropped in the tank they attacked it devouring it in 20 seconds.NLS is a five star product and I highly recommend there flake and pellet food, both of which I been using a few years now. I take off a star for the poor marketing of great product.

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The flakes in this jar are HUGE. Almost like they were scraped off the tray and nearly folded inside haha. Had to use my feeding spoon to crush them up in the jar some. Fish seem to like them. Not sure if my kids did anything as far as opening the large jar or something like that, but after a trip away for a week, the jar of flakes smells strongly of a fishy smell. Fish still eat the flakes, so not sure if they are souring, or if it’s nothing at all. Didn’t realize either the size I picked would be such a huge jar. Pretty sure these will go bad before I can use it all.