Hikiari vs Wardley food

[douce101]

Hey hey everyone. I've been planning on trying out Hikiari's Cichlid pellets in the near future as i have severums and angels in my tank. I currently use Wardley Essentials tropical flakes. I was just wondering since Wardley is the only flake food i've used so far, how it would compare to switching to the pellets. I was also wondering about peoples oppions on this brand of flake food not being compared to anything.

Thanks in advance :)

[troy]

Well Wardley is a low quality fish food and hikari is a high end fish food. At one point I gave Wardley shrimp pellets to my fish and they liked it but people like potato chips. Lol.

[jackson17]

I have the Hikari cichlid food for my Green Terror and my Jack Dempsy (I think that's what it is lol.) They're still babies so I have to crush them before I drop it in but once they smell it they love them. I would get the hikari stuff, seems to work.

[fishlover49]

I use all Hikari food. thumbs2: I don't care for Wardley's.

[Lady Hobbs]

Hikari is top shelf and Warbleys is at the bottom.

[korith]

Like they all said, wardley isn't really that great. Compare the ingredient content of wardley against a similar product of another brand. Some brands have more filler than others. New life spectrum, hikari and omega one are up their in quality. I use hikari mostly because I can find it here locally and it is affordable.

[Oscar_freak12321]

Hikari is what I'd go with. I use Hikari for almost all of my fish to feed. They're only beatable by frozen and live foods. That's it!

[Gemini]

Hikari is higher end, as is NLS, Omega One, Dainichu (something like that).
Wardleys I think most agree is pretty low quality.
I feed nearly exclusivily Hikari - however I am about to try out a new Aussie made food.

[Oscar_freak12321]

I have tried NLS in the past, and I liked the brand, as the fish did. Still, I prefer Hikari's variety. If I needed a fallback brand, however, I would choose NLS without even blinking.

[Red]

hikari all the way, NLS is great too!

[douce101]

a big thing thats a problem in my tank is waste. my tank has only a few juvie fish, as opposed to a large amount i had before, but i still find i have a surprising large amount of waste. I feed 1-2 times a day, either freeze dried Tetra blood worms or the Wardley's flake food, very sparingly, and i don't feed on weekends. I also run two HOB filters in the tank, but their is still more waste then i think their should be. Could it be because of the low quality flake food?

[korith]

a big thing thats a problem in my tank is waste. my tank has only a few juvie fish, as opposed to a large amount i had before, but i still find i have a surprising large amount of waste. I feed 1-2 times a day, either freeze dried Tetra blood worms or the Wardley's flake food, very sparingly, and i don't feed on weekends. I also run two HOB filters in the tank, but their is still more waste then i think their should be. Could it be because of the low quality flake food?

Could be the food, or perhaps overfeeding? Do you notice any oily type stuff on the top layer of the water? Some types of food tend to break up more than others.

[Oscar_freak12321]

It could possibly be. I would upgrade to Hikari as soon as possible, even if this is not the food. Better food equals better waste, better waste equals healthier water, healthier water equals healthier and happier fish.

[douce101]

Could be the food, or perhaps overfeeding? Do you notice any oily type stuff on the top layer of the water? Some types of food tend to break up more than others.
It'd be really odd if it was from overfeeding, but i guess its possible. My girlfriend who also has a few aquariums can only describe my feeding habbits as torture, for how little i feed compared to her, and i wouldn't say she overfeeds her fish, so that gives you an idea of my situation. I've never noticed a film like that, would something like that be because of overfeeding?

[korith]

It'd be really odd if it was from overfeeding, but i guess its possible. My girlfriend who also has a few aquariums can only describe my feeding habbits as torture, for how little i feed compared to her, and i wouldn't say she overfeeds her fish, so that gives you an idea of my situation. I've never noticed a film like that, would something like that be because of overfeeding?

Possibly from overfeeding, quality of food, or lack of surface agitation.

[Northernguy]

I noticed a big difference in the amount of waste in my oscar tank after switching.Hikari and NLS are great foods!