New Life Spectrum Discus vs. Tetra Colorbits

[The Great White Hand]

Hi

Any opinions or interesting articles on the merits of both, particularly direct comparisons. I'm thinking of changing from colorbits, I suppose I'll do what I usually do and have both (I've a cupboard/freezer full of fish food LOL).

My four discus (8-12cm) typically have two blocks of frozen (thawed) bloodworm and a bit of flake (JBL premium) and about a tablespoon of colorbits a day. What do those quatities sound like to you?

Regards, TGWH

[ryanjury]

When I looked into it on this site http://www.cichlid-food-canada.com/info.html you can hover over the food and get the nutritional info, I was interested to see the difference between the cichlid formula and discus, from the pop up that came up I couldn't tell any difference in ingrediants the only difference I can see is the price and the fact they dont do discus in bulk..

It appears to me that NLS packaged the same product in a different smaller container with a higher price marketing it to the discus keepers who will be more likely to see something with a discus on it and spend whatever they want..

I got some NLS and im slowly getting my discus onto it from colourbits, frozen homemade food and whiteworms they're starting to get onto it, sounds like yours have a good diet As for quantities if they're eating it all its obviously sweet..

I am impressed with the quality of the NLS food the fish seem to eat it, I haven't seen any changes in colour (they claim you have to feed it exclusively for that to happen and I will never feed only one food) the pellets are very small and you have to chuck a few in but the fish seem to love it and its good to mix in with all the other foods I feed.