So wanted to give an update. I bought 3 aquaforest foods. Anthias pro mix, the veggie strength, and tiny fish feed. I prefer the size of of the veggie strength and anthias mix and I feel like it’s good for small mouth fish. The tiny fish food was really small imo unless of course you’re dealing with very small mouth fish. For my wrasses, basslet, and tangs, it didn’t make sense.
The veggie strength smells like garlic. It also floats and takes a while for it to sink. Some fish have gone for it but it stays on the surface too long which I don’t think is great for fish who don’t like getting up there.
Anthias pro mix was what all the fish including tangs went for. It sinks really quickly so maybe don’t drop your pump speed so low when feeding. It’s the highest protein of them all. Interestingly my blotchy kinda went for it but maybe too small for it to get excited? Or maybe it sinks too fast for it to go for it. The blotchy doesn’t typically eat from the sandbed.
I mixed the veggie strength and the anthias pro mix into my Apex Af which I don’t recommend since particle size makes it not dispense as easy.
Overall I want to say less polluted, my phosphates I had were at .3 and I was dosing some phosphate e for removal. My nitrates were at 18.5 before switching over. After switching my phosphates have dropped to .2 without dosing phosphate E and my nitrates are at 14.5. This also could be due to the auto feeder not dispensing equal amounts of food the 2 times of day they were added. But I have also upped my reef nutrients bottled pac pods, artic pods, ROE and Oyster feast as well so hard to tell for certain without doing a more accurate test removing variables. This was tested over a week and half btw.
