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doug z

Planted FW Junkie
Posts: 3,566
Registered: January 2008
Location: Mackenzie, BC

New Life Spectrum Small Fish Formula

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
15	12177	Fri March 13, 2015

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	$70.00	9.1

Description:

New Life Spectrum food is made with high-quality easily digestible South Antarctic Krill, Herring, Squid, and New Zealand Mussel protein, and several all-natural color-enhancing ingredients for a balanced diet that boosts immune system function and enhances the full spectrum of your fish’s color. With the belief that all fish require a complete and fully balanced varied diet, New Life also contains Algae Meal, that consists of Seaweed, Kelp, and Haematococcus pluvialis (a micro algae), a premium grade of natural Spirulina, as well as a fruit & vegetable extract that consists of Spinach, Red & Green Cabbage, Peas, Broccoli, Red Pepper, Zucchini, Tomato, Kiwi, Apricot, Pear, Mango, Apple, Papaya, and Peach.

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doug z

Planted FW Junkie

Registered: January 2008
Location: Mackenzie, BC
Posts: 3566

Review Date: Wed December 3, 2008

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	My tetras and bottom feeders alike love it! Just the right size..
Cons:	50-80% of pellets will sink like stones.. Not so good if you're feeding them to surface feeders..

Good thing my pandas, etc like this stuff, because ALOT of it sinks as soon as it hits the water..

Not so good for danios, etc, which are surface feeders (though they will make dives for it till the pellets gets to about halfway down)..

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75g - 20 cardinals : 7 panda cory : 5 Julii cory : 9 zebra danios : 1 CAE : 2 SAE : 2 yo-yos : 1 BN
25g: 5 long-finned zebra danios

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leggomypleco

Flowerhorn Guru

Registered: December 2008
Location: Indy
Posts: 1682

Review Date: Sun December 21, 2008

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):
Cons:

CHEAP

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gm72

Honored

Registered: March 2007
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 10933

Review Date: Fri December 26, 2008

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Nutrition, fish readily accept it
Cons:	Price

Great stuff, but more expensive than the competition. You do get what you pay for. Ingredients list is outstanding and all fish that I have ever kept love it. It sinks rapidly, therefore do not use for surface feeders. For mid feeders just feed a small amount so that they can consume it before it reaches the substrate. Does not cloud the water even with overfeeding. Highly recommended food.

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8 tanks running now:
1x 220 gallon, 2x55 gallon, 1x40 gallon long, 1x29 gallon, 1x20 gallon long, 1x5.5 gallon, 1x2 gallon
Gouramis, barbs, rasboras, plecos, corys, tetras, fancy guppies, swordtails, ottos, rainbow shark, upside-down catfish, snails, and Max and Sparkles the bettas.

sandy_n

sandy

Registered: March 2008
Location: Missouri
Posts: 3161

Review Date: Wed January 28, 2009

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Nutritional value
Cons:	Price, not readibly available

The fish do like this food and the ingredients are top quality. It is a little expensive and it is not as easy to find as some other brands of food.

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Cameron

Saltwater Wanna-be

Registered: July 2007
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 623

Review Date: Wed April 1, 2009

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Cool container, fish seem to like it
Cons:	Little Expensive, had to buy online

This is great food and worth the price, i use it with my tetras and they really like it. Its a bit expensive and hard to find but it is quality.

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In my 29 gal:
4 serpae tetras
1 Flame tetras
1 Zebra Danio
1 German Blue Ram
In my 55 gal:
Trigun's 55g Tropical Community!
6 Glo-lite Tetras
4 Emerald Corys
1 Dwarf Gourami
4 Peppered Corys
25 Neon Tetras

Lab_Rat

Got fry?

Registered: June 2008
Location: Deep, deep South
Posts: 6864

Review Date: Mon October 26, 2009

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Great food
Cons:	none that I've seen

Fish love it and look great. It's one of the pellets in my feeding rotation.

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bkh99
Junior Member

Registered: January 2010
Posts: 11

Review Date: Sun May 23, 2010

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: $70.00 | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Quality food
Cons:	sinks

Bought in bulk, 2.2 kilograms (about 5 pounds for 70.00) so the price was right

I use several feeding rings and several clear crystal bowls below. The food sinks and then is gathered in the bowls. After years of doing this way my fish have fallen into a routine. They eat out of bowls, and when bottom feeders stir up the food in the bowls, other fish like to eat the small pellets as they get stirred up.

bkh99
Junior Member

Registered: January 2010
Posts: 11

Review Date: Sun May 23, 2010

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: $70.00 | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	good food
Cons:	none really

Thought I would mention that because I bought this food in such a large bulk size I keep it in the freezer. I also like the fact that it is a pellet food, since apparently flakes can leach water soluble nutrients.

Trillianne

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Registered: April 2010
Location: Seattle Side of the Mountains
Posts: 2503

Review Date: Tue June 22, 2010

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	My fish love it!
Cons:

I use the .5mm size which is small! The fish will swarm up at feeding time eager to chow down!

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Cliff

Moderator

Registered: January 2010
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Posts: 20087

Review Date: Thu July 29, 2010

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 8

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Size and color
Cons:	most $$$ food I have bought

My corys just love these food. I also have one rubber lip pleco that really likes it too. and with any NLS product, its great quality

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CassieLEO

Sweet Peas Mommy

Registered: November 2010
Location: MA
Posts: 1861

Review Date: Wed January 19, 2011

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Great ingredient list including garlic
Cons:	Sometimes it takes a while for the fish to learn how to eat it

My Cories also love it. Ive trained my fish to eat these pellets. It did take a little bit, now they go beserck eating them...

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jeffs99dime

More Cowbell!

Registered: October 2006
Location: NEW JERSEY
Posts: 16911

Review Date: Sat November 24, 2012

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Everything
Cons:	Nothing

My Multifasciatus and White Calvus "Chatika" love this stuff and since it sinks it is perfect for them because they inhabit the lower portions of the tank. I have the 1mm pellets.

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Guitarmageddon!

Registered: September 2010
Location: Lasalle-Peru
Posts: 6133

Review Date: Mon December 31, 2012

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Quality ingredients, No cloudiness Affordable in bulk
Cons:	When I buy it in too small a quantity ;-)

I use the Therim A formula but I haven't run across that review yet.

My tetras & Barbs love it and the angels do too. I feed several sizes of NLS pellets and have no complaints.

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Tiari

Senior Member

Registered: December 2011
Location: Bridgeport Connecticut
Posts: 782

Review Date: Mon March 18, 2013

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Made with exceptional ingredients
Cons:	most of it sinks

For some unknown reason, the only fish in my menagerie who will eat this food is my Betta's, and, only the ones that float. Most sink and get into the gravel/rocks below, and end up "fuzzy" and are hard to remove with gravel vacuuming. Though the ingredients are very good, and it seems a quality product, the immediate sink action makes this a bad choice for tanks with a lot of flow and larger gravel bottoms.

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2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.

angelcraze2

Senior Member

Registered: March 2012
Location: Quebec
Posts: 883

Review Date: Fri March 13, 2015

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Quality ingredients
Cons:	Don`t have one

I don't know why this is after reading others' comments, but I feed juvie angelfish this food, and they are hardcore top feeders. Maybe Spectrum changed the formulation? If I want them to sink, I release the food below the waterline. I place the food gently on top of the water. No problems with me.

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