Fish Food - Pellets

Are fish pellets suitable for my fish?

Fish pellets are power-packed with essential nutrients to keep your fish healthy and happy. They come in two varieties - ones that sink and ones that don't - both of which are scientifically developed formulas that ensure a complete and balanced diet of natural essential ingredients. Pellets increase appetite, enhance colour, aid digestibility, maintain body shape, boost immunity, and accelerate growth rate. They are also breed-specific, i.e. you can find pellets for freshwater fish, saltwater fish, tropical fish, cold-water fish, omnivores, herbivores, and meat-eating fish. Owing to the size and texture of pelleted food, fish don't swallow much air while feeding on them which prevents their swim bladders from inflating making it difficult for them to swim. Another added bonus of pelleted fish food is the two different varieties - floating pellets are eaten by top and middle column fish, whilst sinking pellets are eaten by bottom feeders. This, in turn, allows for equal feeding in a tank with different kinds of fish. Furthermore, pellets are known to have more nutritional content due to their size and consistency. They are easy to measure, have a longer shelf life, and fit most automatic fish feeders in comparison to other varieties of fish food. Whilst pelleted fish food has several benefits and is of high popularity amongst fish parents, they do come with a few cons. Pelleted fish food that sinks to the bottom of the tank when left uneaten, starts to dissolve and adversely affects the quality of the water requiring you to clean the tank more often. In addition to this, bottom-feeding fish when foraging for sunken pellets can ingest substrates at the bottom of the tank that adversely affects their health. Fishes are fed pelleted food twice or thrice a day in equal intervals. They need to be fed only as much as they can consume in 5 minutes. Feeding more than what's necessary leads to obesity, digestive upsets, and contaminated tanks.