6KG of flake food per month, What now???

I placed an order for my standard monthly fish food flake consumption, before I decided to get rid of all of my fish..... Now the fish are gone,.... and the flakes arrived today!.... What now??

With the fish that I have left,.... this food would probably last me a year or more.... Can flake foods last that long??..... what storage precautions should I take?? ("Cool dry place") etc... Or maybe,... I should just make up little bags of it and sell it locally?



See my standard 20's pack of cigs just dwarfed by the Flake food packs....

 

EISH... I've heard of people storing flakes for extended period in a airtight container in a freezer. Not sure how long it will keep, or if the cool temps will damage it.

 

That's A LOT of food. Maybe sell in 500g bags in classifieds....

 

Yo @Cheetah - Nice 2 know that you know the AMAZING,BUDGET protein availability of Amatikululu Flake.... Us in the Know have been making use of this for a LONG TIME......

Please help cheetaah ....

 

Actually, that was going to be my next question........Amatikululu (IMO) is probably not the best flake foods on the market, but for large scale breeding of fish, it is the best value for money (trolley for trolley).......

The best flake foods I have ever used (where you could actually see the results) was a Tetramin product called "Special mix", which I normally got in 5kg containers and rolled out some with roller pin to feed the fry........ fantastic food, which I have not seen around for the last decade or two...... Does anyone know if it is still around - It looks a lot like pro-nutro and had Netherland script on it which read something to the effect - (and I'm not swearing) - "Voor het opfokken van het Tropiesche siervissen" ..... If it is still on the market, I'd really like to get some.....

 

Ok thats a little funny.

Never seen fish food in bulk really, but like my grandma says if it workd really well the government will have it off the market soon enough.

 

i'll take some photos next time we unpack 6 pallets of OmegaOne

 

"Voor het opfokken van het Tropiesche siervissen" means "For the rearing of Ornamental Tropical Fish"

 

I Knew I still had an empty container somewhere……. (good for storing the kid’s leggo in) The expiry date on the lid of this container is October 1978….. & then already, I paid in excess of R300 per 10L container, so maybe it was just priced completely out of the market….. But!!!!!.... Excellent "opfokvoer"!!!!

This is what the container looked like



I see it came in 10Liter sizes (2,300g) … not 5kg as I reported.



On the front display, it says: “Opfokvoer voor het Tropische siervissen”….



The description on the back reads: “Voor het kweken en opfokken van siervissen” and the next paragraph confirm that it is indeed “Opfokvoer”……

 

If any of our sponsors can get hold of this food, (& it is priced for less than R2,000)..... I'll appreciate if you can let me know.... I'll be interested.

 

SpecialMix, long gone!

hey Pal!

It's not part of the tetra range of foods. staple or specialty, anymore.
I suggest that you didnt actually get a chance to find anything comparable...due to several factors
Name brand foods are pricey, budget foods rarely meet expectations IF you had good success before on a name-brand food that is.
Likely you didn't want to risk spending on something else, just to compare.. while your TOUGH fish were doing just fine!

There are MANY alternatives in the market place nowadays.... to suit almost everyman's pocket and every fish diet!:blink1:

But, I'm afraid the special Mix is a thing of the past.

BTW looking at the label, you can easily compare Ingredient lists and even write to Tetra , in Melle, Germany...
Again, you won't find the same food..but it will bring closure to your pursuit.

Contact me for a few alternatives that are not marketed openly..ie. Not as expensive, nor entry-level budget feeds.

PS How are those fish i sent up... breeding those Albino Bristle Nose Ancistrus yet?

 

I know you get Sera and Tetra foods in large containers, but the biggest I've seen is 1liter. The Tetra pond feed you can get in big 10liter buckets though.