Ocean Nutrition Formula One Flake and Pellets
 

I just picked up both of these products from work to give em a go in my reefs. I decided to go with both because, despite being labelled the same, they are different on composition (ingredients and additives).

My first impression of the flakes was very positive. The fish seem to love it. No break in period or anything. I just dropped the food in and everyone, including a newly added purple tang (previously refusing everything but algae, even cyclopeeze), took to it immedietly. Extremely promising, especially if the food is all it's marketed to be (see the labeling of the product).

Later in the evening, I gave the pellets a try. While my fish ate the food, I found that it sank MUCH, MUCH too fast to be of any interest to all but the most gluttonous of clownfish. I think that definitely detracts from the appeal of the product. My tangs won't even take a second glance at most foodstuffs that have hit substrate and they did likewise with the pellets.

Anyway, I don't know what the actual nutritional quality of the product is, but the packaging claims that is is just as good as the frozen item but with the convenience of dry food. If anyone manages to drag up some details on how this brand of flake stacks up with others, I wouldn't mind taking a gander at them.

So anyway, out of 5:

Flakes - 4
Pellets - 3






Edit: This is a first impression. It's going to be hard for me to make any objective comments about growth and color enhancement because of the wide variety of foods that I feed my tanks.

Formula Two would be better for tangs. It's still dry flake food which needs to be supplemented with frozen, fresh, pellets, etc. I think you should stock some OSI. :mrgreen:

formula 2
 

I agree with Deb, my Tangs, clowns and my pigface, I mean Foxface love formula2 pellets more than frozen mysis...go figure :rolleyes:
I like the pellets more than the flake because they are close to neutral bouyancy and therefore float around the water column for quite a while....this allows even the less aggressive eaters several chances at a BON-BON :smile:
FWIW

Meh, I feed about 2342343 different items to my fish. Just one of the perks of getting food at cost + easy access to a fridge stocked by a seafood loving household.

OSI is weak (situationally speaking). He won't even sniff at it. Strange though, the last Purple Tang I had ate EVERYTHING I threw in the tank. This one is just being a stubborn bugger I guess.

Anyway, I should probably explain why I don't consider this food a 5/5 item: Cost. This stuff is retarded expensive compared to OSI and that really limits its appeal when you have cheap items like mysis and nori to consider.

Re: formula 2
 

I'll check out Formula 2 as soon as it comes into the store then. That's really odd though, since F1 pellets seem to sink like rocks. :mad:

Formula 2 flake is pretty much all I use for fish food. Deb's Idol was fed almost exclusively with Formula 2 during its first 2 years or so with me. Nowadays, I grind up frozen food and cyclopeeze to feed the corals and the fish get some of that when I feed the corals. I still feed Formula 2 flake primarily for the fish. They don't touch the pellets as much. I give Formula 2 flake 5 out of 5.

Some old video of my fish eating Formula 2 flake.

FEEDING VIDEO

They don't like Cyclopeeze much. I've been using Cyclopeeze for over a year and the fish don't get as excited about it as they do about Formula 2 flake.

Wow, that video makes me want to run out and buy a moorish idol!!! :evil:

Whatever Albert....I think a Moorish Idol now 3 years into captivity should be studied, not shunned.

None of my fish eat cyclopeez....btw.

Maybe he was serious? I want another one too if they didn't grow so big and fast and eat all my Zoos. But oh yeah they are hard to keep so no one should go out and get one.