Aquatic Foods Inc. Premium Beef Heart Flakes, Helps Increase Size & Girth for Discus, Chichlids, All Tropical Fish Large and Small. AFZ- 1/2-lb

We have Discus from Asia, Germany, and Malaysia. We have strictly been feeding frozen beef heart (bought from the suppliers from our fish) and live black worms. There is a black worm shortage here so getting enough has been a challenge and the frozen beef heart is just a huge mess and a pain in the ass to feed. I searched Amazon for a beef heart flake, just to see if they would go for it, and came across this flake. I bought 1 lb of flakes and offered it to our fish… they LOVE it. It took a couple feedings to really get them used to it (at first they were like little sharks taking sample bites lol) but now it’s like a feeding frenzy when I drop it in. Soo much easier, and cleaner, then the frozen beef heart. I do still give live black worms simply because it’s fun. If you are nervous about it just buy their smallest weight option and see how it goes. Just remember don’t give up after first feeding - offer it several times. :) Hope this review helps.

Giant flakes, just as my fish like. They love the taste. Reasonable price. One great fish food. I have a couple of discuss, one blood red parrot and some tetras. Yes they do get along, trick is to introduction the parrot when he's juvenile.

My discus are on the lookout when I feed this to them. They love it. I used to prepare fresh beef heart but stopped with that due to the fouling of the tank. This is a great alternative without fouling the tank.

Discus generally are picky eaters. Some eat anything you give them others shy away from most food and only accept a random few. I gave a four star because I received a 70% success rate with my 15+ discus of various sizes. I would recommend this as a supplement diet for picky eaters.

I have discus fish and they love this. Highly recommend this product

I am alternating feeding this and tetramin flakes and my angelfish are growing like weeds!

The two discus that will eat it will only do so after a day of fasting and missing out on food... while the other tanks still snub it. I have danios in another tank that will eat it - they are a never ending colony of fish that were supposed to be emperor tetra bought online but that is not what arrived. LOL I feed my apitogrammas everything that I feed my discus - but they do not want anything to do with this particular brand and formula either. I had better luck with the cheaper Aquatic Foods Beefheart mix as it is called on Amazon... Not their favorite but they will at least it it. S & C Aquatics, who can also be found on Amazon, no longer makes a beef heart FLAKE but my fish loved it. I will try their pellets next. Seachem Nutri Diet flakes, Hans Cobalt flakes, and Hikari Discus Bio Gold pellets - they snatch right up. Frozen Live foods is like Russian roulette and seems to have me medicating tanks on and off (yes that includes hikari frozen blood worms that are supposed to be disease free). I am just not doing it anymore. Any of the years I go without feeding live foods... my discus stay disease free and spawn and rear fry left and right... I left discus before because of the frequency of disease issues for several years at the end of the 90's. After taking a break from them and then returning to discus because I have an addiction to them ( lol ) I discovered that eliminating live foods also eliminated disease... It is amazing to have discus disease free for so many years. Over the last 5 years I have tried live frozen 3 times - but then an issue would crop up within a few months. after a year without any frozen - I just tried hikari blood worms again about 6 weeks ago and 5 cubes in and I am treating discus that went off of their food two weeks later. They got the blood worms 2 Sundays in a row as a treat. I purposely did not feed any to the other tanks that are in the very same room as they are also my breeding pairs and I did not want to risk it - and no issues whats so ever in their tanks. After 2 weeks of meds the sick tank is now eating again... I enjoy discus so much more when I can go years without and disease issues... Sometimes I think it is the extreme sterile environments that most Discus are spawned and reared in that makes them so susceptible to disease from live foods... But healthy fish make for happy fish and happy owners. If they will spawn and rear healthy fry without live foods and never develop disease... why bother ???

Fish does not like it