10 of Our Favorite Foods for Aquarium Fish

Our content strategist Irene is a self-professed fish food aficionado and loves trying out the latest foods that get released at fish stores. After much experimentation, here are her top 10 favorite fish foods that perform the best – including flakes, wafers, pellets, frozen, live, freeze-dried, and more.

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[shelbydog]

I love the repashy gel food. I put it in a little silicone chocolate mold shaped with hearts sand I actually freeze it. I found that freezing it keeps my danios from eating it all before my otos get any. And I like making it it’s kind of fun! I also ground up a few other dry foods I have and I mix that in as well.

[johnmadia]

Irene makes the best videos. Packed with plenty of information, but to the point and well organized

[KaneWrestlingFan]

The bug bites bottom feeder formula is an absolute must for me as I have corydoras and of all the foods I've tried it seems to be the one they are the most ravenous for, even over frozen bloodworms surprisingly.

[DreamPainter]

It took me a try or two to get the bbs hatching process down because I didn't realize you couldnt see the brine shrimp when the pump was on because I wasn't making that much but it's surprisingly easy! I'd recommend it too!

[sweetpea]

Great video Irene, how about easiest live food for someone who only has one tank? Not a lot of space and being in the hobby for decades.

[catfishcave]

I prefer Omega One, New Life Spectrum, and Bug Bites as they have the best ingredients. I use pellets and freeze dried first, wafers second and then flakes. Also Rapashy. The few extra dollars a month makes price unimportant. Frozen bloodworms are fed periodically.
I have used most Xtreme foods, and while the fish liked them (especially krill), they much preferred my other foods. Because my tanks are in the garage, the occasional cricket, spider, or flying gnat-like things fall in; those are fought over. Earthworms from our organic garden are eagerly devoured by all.

[medkow]

Raised my Pseudomugil Furcata fry with the powder at the bottom of the freeze dried brine shrimp bottle. Also every time my Corydoras place eggs it's after feeding freeze dried tubiflex worms.

[richardcolligon]

Way way back in the day, long before you were born. All the expert's always said Discus would only eat tubifex worm's, and I would use the freeze dried and stick it on the glass. It was and is great for angelfish and pretty much any fish. Excellent video! I really love your video's, sometimes I over think what to do. FYI first my son used to live in Edmunds Washington while working for a little company called Boeing. He left a great job to go fight the war on terror. He used to send me beautiful picture's of Washington. He live's in a small town near Winslow Arizona and that famous corner was owned by my daughter In-laws family. Problem living their is you can't find live fish for a hundred mile's. Would be a great place to open a fish store.

[naegwut]

Same

I love trying different fish foods for my babies. Shrimp cuisine is a hit

[sarahwoodring]

Loved seeing the loaches going after the sinking wafer!

[huntermclaren]

Great video! Very informative, thank you!

[yasukoherron]

I love repashy food too. I use itty bitty ice cube tray to mold it and freeze the extra. I have hatched live brine shrimp before but I got some questions. 1. How long do brine shrimp live in the aquarium? 2. If fish did not find all the live brine shrimp put into the tank, would it turn it like ammonia later on? I too love to get tonz of variety of fish food and our fishies are spoiled:-) I feed extreme spirulina/krill, cobalt smartemia/guppy pellet, NF fry starter, NF kelp flake, Dr bassler nano (this nano food seems to make fish color up etc etc.

[teens_dragon]

Full disclosure, I tried boiling veggies and culturing lived foods and never went back. Cheaper and the coloring of my fish just went amazing 😍

[catherinebeatific]

I've come down to 3 favorites. I love somethings phishy but only their medicated flakes, Hikari, vibra bites being my favorite, and aquarium co-op everything. My fish adore the big fella kind. Pleco, cichlids, even my fire eel would have some.

[SwatejK]

Can't get Xtreme food out of the US.. but I use Hikari for all the fish.. Betta Pellets, Micro Pellets and Vibra Bites.. Also our very own API fish (Life Aayu) foods are a must try

[jesusdal]

Love this video because I'm the exact same way I buy foods even if I don't need it

[jacobmetzner]

Hello, always enjoying the videos. What are the fish pictured eating the bottom feeder wafers that are black and white blotched? Also, I never hear anyone talk about Cobalt foods. Any thoughts? Thanks!

[chrisstephens]

I take all my dry foods and mix them all together in a shaker container. This way I don’t have to remember which food I fed on which day. I just walk thru the fish room and shake some into every take.

[ReneesZooTube]

My first experience with Repashy was awful. I fed a tiny amount to my tub pond and it caused an ammonia/nitrite spike in a fully cycled and stable tub. Decided to try again recently and feed it as just the powder and ended up with my guppies clamping up after a single feeding in 2 of my 8 tanks. And I wasn't overfeeding. I'll never feed it again.

I stick with dry foods. Frozen foods caused my guppies to have clamping. They do very well on a variety of dry foods.

I like Bug Bites and Hikari brands the best so far. I also feed Sera Micron, freeze dried Cyclops, and a mix from a guppy breeder I know. My goldfish gets pellets and dried seaweed. My Dojo Loach gets Bug Bites bottom feeder granules and a few other pellets. He goes nuts for Hikari Vibra Bites and Big Bites Tropical granules

[kenjiro]

My wild mahachaiensis females prefer the Xtreme nano pellet over the NLS betta pellets. They seem to like the high protein in the nano pellet.