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Old 02-05-2011, 10:39 PM
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Question 14 Day Food Transition Facts

Here is some good feedback from the Public aquariums New Era supply and hope this answers a few questions also.

When switching brands of food especially to something with very high "food" and flavour content like New Era you WILL get a food transition period, this is normal for fish, they are creatures of habit. Fish do not understand change, even if it is good for them as with NEA and especially pellet food.

So here are the 4 golden rules when introducing high grade foods (this applies to both pellet and flake, I highlight here more about pellet as it is this you tend to get the bigger incidence in transition)

1. STOP all previous feeds
2. slightly crumble the pellet (oh yes you can do this with NEA not all pellets allow you to crumble them, remember NEA is not baked but cold compressed instead)
3. Reduce your feeding by 50% for the first week
4. Allow 14 days for the fish to forget what they were programmed to accept before.

Afer 14 days your fish will have forgotten the pellets you were feeding before and relish the new food, in doing so reap the benefits of what the new food offers. Pellet food is always a harder transition because it sinks, so it is important to follow the rules.

I will post a video shortly of NEA pellet feeding.

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In this video the fish are being fed NEA Marine pellet, these fish have not seen a single pellet for 3 weeks, note the rapid uptake of the food even though it is a long time since they saw a pellet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlIla4pX7WQ
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Outstanding thread, thanks Michael!
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