Ocean Nutrition Formula One Flake and Pellets

[albert_dao]

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.