Does anyone make a good algae wafer?
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- Jim Powers
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I found HBH brand "Algae Grazers" leaf shaped wafers at Petsmart that have the following top four ingredients: Spirulina Algae, Dehydrated Alfalfa meal, Pea Powder, Soy flour.
That's the highest I have seen Spirulina in the ingredients of any algae wafer. Further down the ingredient list are shrimp meal, carrot powder, spinach powder and kelp meal.
That's the highest I have seen Spirulina in the ingredients of any algae wafer. Further down the ingredient list are shrimp meal, carrot powder, spinach powder and kelp meal.
- Jim Powers
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Has anyone tried these? Sound good but pricey!
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- Jim Powers
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Re: Does anyone make a good algae wafer?
I use the Omega algae wafers from Petsmart. I've tried various others but they just ignore them. These, I put them in and they vanish like they think they're eating some sort of luxurious food.
Re: Does anyone make a good algae wafer?
I use the Omega Algae wafers too, I have used others in the past, but these seem to be a favourite in my tank.
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Re: Does anyone make a good algae wafer?
I just found another good brand called Cobalt. They make some very good flakes, too.
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Re: Does anyone make a good algae wafer?
I just tried Rapashy superfood, and I am thrilled. The fish give it four fins up, everyone except the puffers and eels tore it apart. You buy it as a powder, add boiling water and it becomes a gel. Water stable for at least 12 hours. I have been feeding it to everyone, my bristlenoses like it best, and it actually brought all my moth catfish out, and they come out for nothing. You can smear it on rocks and wood, make it into cubes, crumble it, suspend it in the water. And it has mostly fish based ingredients with algae. Not much of the junk and fillers. It goes a long way. I tried the one for shrimp and grazers, but there's also an aufwuchs one, a carnivore diet and a community. Basically the same but range from 40-55% for protein. Fat about 6%. I love it for the hillstreams, baby bristlenoses, garras, . . . Next time I will add blood worms, and my eels and puffers can enjoy it too.
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Re: Does anyone make a good algae wafer?
I've never heard of this. Where do you get it?
Re: Does anyone make a good algae wafer?
I have seen the Repashy product line in the club I belong to. I am not sure where they got it, they were passing around samples.
The water does need to be boiling, just hot is not enough. Fish seem to like that product line. (I think they had about 3 varieties)
Here is one source. There are probably more. I have never dealt with this site, it just came up when I googled Repashy Fish Food
http://tedsfishroom.com/repashy/
The water does need to be boiling, just hot is not enough. Fish seem to like that product line. (I think they had about 3 varieties)
Here is one source. There are probably more. I have never dealt with this site, it just came up when I googled Repashy Fish Food
http://tedsfishroom.com/repashy/
38 tanks, 2 ponds over 4000 liters of water to keep clean and fresh.
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