Aquatic Foods Inc. Pellets, 1/32" Color Enhancing Floating Pellets for Baby Koi, Pond Fish, Great for All Baby and Small Tropicals…1-lb

The 1 pound package was well packaged with double plastic zip lock bags. I transferred the pellets to pint mason jars that are easier to open and close. One pound of the pellets is a bit more than 2 pints or 1 quart. I would like these pellets better if they had green peas, carrots, and more spirulina,, instead of wheat being the second ingredient. For goldfish, koi, and tropical omnivores, these are much better foods for the plant portion of an omnivore diet. That said, the ingredients and nutritional breakdown are as good as most available ominore feeds, and better than many that cost much more. For some reason fish foods for herbivores only seem to be made in sinking wafers, while flakes for omnivores who need some good plant matter, get stuck with wheat and soy.I have three 55 gallon tanks and eight 10 gallon tanks. All of my fish are small freshwater omnivores. I don't have any calipers to measure the exact size of the pellets, but they are pretty small. They do however swell to about double their size once in the water for a minute. I once had a sample packet of similarly sized pellets from Hikari for feeding Bettas. These pellets continue to float for several minutes without sinking, and my fish ate all of them before I saw any sink to the bottom. This can be a good or bad thing depending upon on your fish and whether they will all rise to the surface for food.If you have some small koi and/or goldfish in a pond with larger ones, these pellets would be perfect to mix with your large pellets for the little guys to munch on. Most fish of an inch or more in length (excluding long tails) should be able to fit these pellets in their mouths without any problem. The pellets are really hard at first, but they soften some once they've been in the water for a minute. My smallest fish had problems trying to chew on the pellets at first until they softened a bit.For more details about how my different tropical fish responded to these pellets when they were accustomed to flaked food, I've provided more details below:I normally feed flake food, but I wanted to try these floating pellets since they are cheaper than the flakes I've bought with similar ingredients. A second reason for trying them is that my tanks have lots of plants, and the flaked foods sink quickly and sometimes gets hidden away in tight spaces where the fish seem to ignore, while they are still fighting for few scraps left on the surface. I hoped a floating pellet might get eaten with less left over to foul the water. I try to only feed enough that it will be eaten quickly, but it is sometimes hard to feed just enough that small ones have a chance to get enough before the larger piggy ones eat everything, without some scraps sinking and getting hidden.I have Cherry and Golden Barbs; Neon, GloLight, and Black Tetras; White Cloud Mountain Minnows; and Zebra Danios in mixed community tanks. The Zebra Danios and WCM minnows that spend most of their time near the surface are especially fond of these new pellets. My largest fish are Golden Barbs just under 3 inches, and they sucked up these pellets like me with a handful of M&Ms.My Tetras that spend much of their time at the middle depth of the tanks, were less inclined to come to the surface for these pellets for the first few days. After a week they have become more accustomed to them. I breed all of these fish, and the 1/2 inch juveniles in 10 gallon tanks seemed to have difficulty eating these pellets. This might be because I normally feed sinking shrimp pellets in my fry tanks. In my fry tanks I use glass petri dishes as a "food bowl". The petri dishes keep the sinking pellets from going into the tanks' substrate, so that even small fry can eat easily after the pellets get mushy. I use a piece of clear pipe to drop their sinking shrimp pellets into their food bowls, where it is easy to use a turkey baster later to clean up anything left too long. In the tanks with the largest fry, they are more adventurous and were willing to try this new floating food after it had soaked for a couple of minutes.One of my 55 gallon tanks is full of Endler's livebearers. The adult females are larger and the same size as their Guppy cousins. The Endler's males are much, much smaller at barely an inch when grown. While the Endler's are normally scattered at all depths during the day, whenever they see me enter the room, all except for the tiniest fry hiding among the plants will rocket to the surface begging for food, even if they were fed 30 minutes before. The adult males and the fry under an inch had some problems eating these pellets. Before the pellets soaked up some water and swelled, the males would try to eat the small pellet, but spit it back out, presumably because it was too large to swallow and too hard to chew. Once the pellet softened and swelled to double its size, the juveniles and adult males would try to eat the pellets, but have problems getting them in their mouths. Once the pellets had soaked for about 3 to 4 minutes, then they softened enough that the males and juveniles can peck at them and eat them. The tank also has hundreds of tiny fry that hide in the Java Moss that covers the bottom of the tank, and they need some of the flakes that sink for them to feed on.Even though some of my fish either couldn't eat these pellets or didn't want to come to the surface, I am going to include these pellets in the regular feeding. I'm going to feed both these floating pellets and the flaked food I've been using. After a week of feedings, I've found that by replacing half the flaked food with the pellets, I am seeing almost no waste hidden away at the bottom. Since the pellets are more dense than the fluffy flaked food, the fish are eating more and wasting less. Since the pellets continue to float for a long time, the piggy larger fish eventually clean up any leftover pellets. With much less of the flaked food sinking, the fish at lower levels are doing a better job of cleaning up their flakes.Using a mix of equal parts flaked food and these pellets is working really well after a week of testing. All of the fish seem to be able to get all they want, without waste left over. With either one alone, it was more difficult to find the perfect amount of food so all the fish got their fill without waste. If you have a community tank of omnivores like mine, I highly recommend these pellets along with a flaked food. Some people like to feed different foods on different days or give their fish "treats" of special foods. I've been keeping fish for 50 years, and I find that mine are more healthy when I feed them a consistent balanced diet. For a tank with a variety of fish, this might meaning feeding a flaked food for some, a floating pellet for some, and sinking wafer for catfish, but I feed the same things each time. Feeding a different food each time is much more likely to cause problems with fish wasting uneaten food or having digestive problems. While my fish are smart enough to learn quickly when they seem my shape outside their tank, that food may be about to enter the tank, there is no reason to tax the limits of their intellect by their food being different and behaving differently in the water every day. A balanced diet is one with a good mix of ingredients for your fish, not a different food each time you feed them. If I decide to change brands of foods, I gradually adjust my fish by giving them a mix of the old food and the new one for a few days.

Absolutely perfect for small fish. I have Cherry Barbs, Blue Ram Cichlids, Yellow Lab Cichlids, And Tiger barbs all living in a peaceful community tank and they gobbled these little fish pellets right up with ease! I was hoping they were small enough for the Cherry Barbs because they are the smallest mouths in the tank and the answer is YES!! Every fish loved them right off the bat right away and they stayed floating for plenty of time that they were all eaten up quickly. I will return to add to this review if something goes wrong, but I highly doubt anything would be wrong with this food. Plus, for 1 lb OMG I’m going to have fish food for a while! What an outstanding price for the amount you get in just 1 lb. Could not have been happier and compared to other retail food out there which was clouding up my water, I don’t think that will be an issue with this because it stays floating and highly visible on the water surface. Some of the other food would just sink and start breaking up into a cloudy mess, but this food doesn’t do that. It stayed in a good shape and stayed on top of the water so the fish don’t have to look around for particles. My fish believe it or not are already trained to come to the surface once I barely touch or open the lid. I still give them treats of blood worms too, but that can’t be their only diet and it would get expensive to feed blood worms 24/7. So far I am impressed with this food. Fast shipping and good packaging and I’ve already transferred the entire bag into a good quality jar to keep it fresh of course. Thanks so much fish food people, I really think you solved my cloudy water issue with high quality food rich in protein. In fact that’s why I bought this because the first several ingredients are top notch in my book and not just fillers like the others from the store brands. Needed something that would let these little fish have good food to show off their colors. Especially my favorite little Blue Rams! Very colorful and beautiful fish that need exactly the kind of food like this!

I bought the 1lb size of 1/32” pellets. They float and are accepted greedily by my fish. The price is perfect for the amount you receive . I feed a small amount to my fish twice a day.. I have a dozen shiners about 3” long and some buenos aries tetras that are 1.5”… these pellets are the correct size for them.

We just set up our pond in the back yard, We initially added 5 small koi from Pet Smart. We were feeding the food the store recommended. We lost all but one. I had purchased this food but it took awhile to get here. (I suspect the food was not the reason for the dead fish, but...) so we went to PetCo and purchased 3 bigger fish. They did fine but when this food arrived, I noticed a significant difference in them. Within minutes of when I toss this food into the water, they JAM all over the bottom of the pond until Junior (the smaller one from PetSmart) leads them to the food. They love, love, love this food. It's so much fun watching them search for bites, swim off and come back for more. I think their colors are brighter too, but we're mostly just excited to see them scarfing on this food. I give them 15 minutes to eat as much as they want and then remove what's left. I highly recommend this food.

The pellets are small enough for my goldfish in my pond so they have even the small fish can eat the pellets. They flow well and the fish seem to like them.

I have 2 pounds a koi pond and a goldfish pond and none of the fish would eat this food. It would just sit there then after a while I would scoop it out to Keep my water quality good. ( always remove uneaten food) eventually I just stop giving it to them.

This pellet is supposed to be .8mm or 1/32 of an inch. when i got the package the pellets are closer to 1.3 mm which is nearly twice the size advertise. the fish i bought this for can handle a .8 pellet no problem, this barely fits through the gape of my fry's mouth. not satisfied

These are great for baby Koi and Goldfish. Very small size that's floats well and doesn't break down right away.