Best food for Angels?

[Jomolager]

What is the best food for Angels? Why? Where do you get it? Is HikarI for cichlids any good? Which kind?

I've noticed that my platinum Angel eats everybody else's food first, than nibbles on his own at leisure. He seems to prefer the most crushed flakes that are for the red tail blue variants. Go figure

 

[Tabbycat]

My Angel is in a community tank and eats whatever he wants. When I feed my fish I put in some Omega One flake food for the Rasboras. The Angelfish eats that. I put in some Aqueon or API Cichlid pellets (one or the other) for the Angelfish, the platies eat that and sometimes the Angelfish eats it. I put in some shrimp pellets for the cories. The Angelfish will eat them when he finds it. I put in an Algae wafer for my BN Pleco. You guessed it. The Angelfish will eat that too.

I've come to the conclusion that Angelfish are pigs.

 

[Jomolager]

No, NOT pigs!!! They are omnivores! Unlike the rest of the kids, my youngest was/ is an omnivore. When little she tasted everything, and liked most of the foods. She knew, if she did not like what we served her, she would have not only to fend for herself, but clean up too.

But getting back to Angels. I am new to them, and I am trying to figure out what are the best foods for them. HikarI makes lots of different kinds of foods for Goldies, but many goldie keepers, myself included, find one kind particularly good. Wondering if there is a particularly good HikarI or anything else for Angels.

Thanks for your response.

 

[Coradee]

Mine eat pretty much whatever goes in the tank but their favourite so far is bloodworms & mysis shrimp, they're also partial to New era tropical flakes & cichlid pellets.

 

[Jomolager]

Coradee, thanks for response. What kind of cichlid pellets, there are thee sizes in addition to mini?

 

[Coradee]

The ones I have are New era central/south american cichlid pellets 1.5 mm

 

[Jomolager]

thanks.

 

[Tabbycat]

I just picked up some New Life Spectrum pellets and my Angelfish likes them. My betta likes them too as far as that goes.

 

[tameone]

My juvy angel will eat new life spectrum sinking pellets (small fish size), but seems to prefer the seachem chlorella flakes just a little more, and obviously likes frozen foods.

 

[Jomolager]

I am trying to figure out whether I need to buy cichlid food

 

[tameone]

I don't think you need to buy cichlid specific food. Examples.

Looking at omega one cichlid flakes vs general freshwater flakes. The ingredients are identical with the exception that the cichlid flakes do not contain krill, and therefore have 2% less crude protein.

The new life spectrum website doesn't list formula breakdowns for specific foods, but does mention that each formula contains the same ingredients. I take that to mean same ingredients at slightly varying percentages across the formulae, with results probably similar to omega one (slightly less crude protein by volume).

So I'd think the cichlid, or general community fish formulas from a quality brand would work well.

 

[Jomolager]

tameone, my wallet says THANK YOU

 

[Gouramiwhisperer]

My angel seems to always be begging for more food! Right now he mostly gets tetra Cichlid flakes and then sometimes blood worms or brine shrimp. I’m wondering if there’s any recommendations anyone has for food for this guy that’s best for him!

 

[Crispii]

A varied diet is best for angels.

 

[Gouramiwhisperer]

A varied diet is best for angels.

Any specific foods you recommend?

 

[Crispii]

Any specific foods you recommend?

Frozen foods, New Life Spectrum, and Omega One.

 

[Addictedtobettas]

They have bottomless stomachs, or so they'll tell you every chance they get.

 

[fishsavvy]

I breed angels and have had an angel live for 6 years. I feed mine brine shrimp (live sometimes), micro pellets, blood worms(once a week), and sometimes earthworms
Edit: for some odd reason, my angels will only eat the cheap flakes so I don’t even bother giving them that as it has nothing good. They hate spirulina *angry face*

 

[Addictedtobettas]

I breed angels and have had an angel live for 6 years. I feed mine brine shrimp (live sometimes), micro pellets, blood worms(once a week), and sometimes earthworms
Edit: for some odd reason, my angels will only eat the cheap flakes so I don’t even bother giving them that as it has nothing good. They hate spirulina *angry face*

Don't they have a general life expectancy of 10-15 years?

 

[Gouramiwhisperer]

I breed angels and have had an angel live for 6 years. I feed mine brine shrimp (live sometimes), micro pellets, blood worms(once a week), and sometimes earthworms
Edit: for some odd reason, my angels will only eat the cheap flakes so I don’t even bother giving them that as it has nothing good. They hate spirulina *angry face*

Yeah mine are absolutely STUCK on the flakes! When I give them brine shrimp they just kind of poke around on it until they realize I’m not putting flakes in there then they eat it!

 

[fishsavvy]

Don't they have a general life expectancy of 10-15 years?

Depends on the type. I got mine from an owner that abused him so 5 years is very old for him! And 5 years that I’ve had him, he was a full adult when I got him so even longer.

OP do you got an idea what is good food for your angels?

 

[Fish4848]

I would try live food such as brine shrimp or mosquito larvae. if you live in a warm enough location, you can probably find mosquito larvae in small puddles. however, there can be bacteria and disease in water with mosquito larvae so you have to be careful.