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ahamm
10-19-2007, 07:15 PM
Has anyone else found that the dainichi color pellets cloud the water for a time after feeding. The food that I purchaed is doing that. I am going to talk to the local fish store about it, but wanted your opinion.

angie
rolloffhill
10-19-2007, 07:54 PM
Never for me.

What size tank?
ahamm
10-19-2007, 08:02 PM
55 gal
29 gal
10 gal

cloudy in all. It is cloudy for a while, then it settles and tends to clear up.
Goathead
10-19-2007, 08:28 PM
I use the veggie deluxe, but ive never had it cloud the water. How much of the food doesnt get eaten immediately?
bra8ndy8
10-19-2007, 10:19 PM
I have mine cloud the water and I use color supreme.
arnold
10-19-2007, 10:29 PM
I have had it cloud the water, only certain variety's however. When that happened I mixed it in with other pelet so it wasn't as much of an issue.
bra8ndy8
10-19-2007, 10:46 PM
I dont know...I thought it was normal....I feed something else....waiting for somefishguy to tell me what it is!!! LOL He told me it was good food...but it clouds as well!
somefishguy
10-19-2007, 10:47 PM
No problem. Feed less, more times a day.
bra8ndy8
10-19-2007, 10:52 PM
I do.....but the other food you recommended....the cheap on....what was it called??? It clouds too!!
somefishguy
10-19-2007, 11:05 PM
I don't know what y'all doing different than me, but my water doesn't look cloudy after I feed on any of my tanks. I feed small amounts and more times a day. Most to all my tanks are at limit with fish so, not much food ever hits the bottom of the tank. If it is, that way too much food.
rolloffhill
10-20-2007, 02:43 PM
I don't know what y'all doing different than me, but my water doesn't look cloudy after I feed on any of my tanks. I feed small amounts and more times a day. Most to all my tanks are at limit with fish so, not much food ever hits the bottom of the tank. If it is, that way too much food.


Same here, I feed a little of the "small" pellets and alot of the "baby" pellets. Never clouded
somefishguy
10-20-2007, 05:13 PM
I use nothing but baby sinking, ultima, color supreme, and f/x. I feed 5-7 times a day, but in small portion. If the fish don't come out to eat they don't get food. If only a few come up, I feed just for those that come out. I don't have much or actually hardly any hits the bottom. Heck my clown loaches are waiting at the top of the water for food.

I paid each close attention to it today and I still don't notice a cloud, I even turned the lights on to double check. All I can say it y'all might be using to much food. And if that is the case, I think just about all food will cloud a tank if there is too much of it in the tank.
arnold
10-21-2007, 03:35 AM
I had clouding problems only on the vegie I think it was, and it was when feeding hundreds of fish in a 100 gallon, they ate it right up but it sort of crumbles and the outer coating turns to powder sometimes. I like the food as do my fish regardless.
bra8ndy8
10-21-2007, 01:10 PM
that's my problem too arnold
Rift2Reef
10-22-2007, 01:14 PM
I have heard that about Dainichi but have never had it happen. I feed my saltwater fish in the shop Dainichi and my cichlids new life spectrum. Spectrum doesn't cloud the water and is a better food imo.

Either way just cut back on the amount and it should help. Even if it does cloud a little it really isn't hurting anyone so if you can live with it you aren't hurting your fish at all.
bra8ndy8
10-22-2007, 01:32 PM
Hummmm.... I will take that and try it!! Thanks!