Tropical Fish Foods

You can pay more, but you can't get higher quality!

Food Discounts on Flakes, Freeze-Dried, Pellets & Wafers

Fish Food Discounts!

• 5% off $50.00-$99.99
• 8% off $100.00-$174.99
• 10% off $175.00 and more
• Applies to Flakes, Freeze Dried, Pellets and Wafers.

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There are so many choices, how do I choose?

All of our fish foods are made here in the U.S. For obvious reasons, we refuse to buy fish foods made in China. Beware, many companies offering cheap food, are selling fish food made in China. Quite a few buy their ingredients from China and then mix it here. And yes, there have been fish food recalls for toxic substances, like melamine found in fish food. 

There is a huge difference in the quality of fish foods on the market today. We've been feeding the fish foods we sell to our own fish every day for almost 30 years and they have never failed us. In fact, they have proven capable of growing superior fish. We take great pains to provide you with the very freshest, most nutritious foods possible.

Fresh! The most important thing with any fish food is freshness. Breeders Award Fish Foods are always the freshest available. We turn our inventory over every few weeks, and our bulk fish foods are made fresh to our specifications on the day we order them. You will not get this degree of freshness anywhere else.  We repeat - this is the most important factor in any prepared fish food you will buy - by far!

The next most important aspect is the packaging of bulk fish food. We use a special zip lock stand-up pouch , that is made from special foil-lined materials,  creating an effective barrier against damaging moisture and oxygen that is also convenient to use. We also add oxygen absorbers to each bag to keep it fresh. We make it our main objective when feeding our fish, to only use the freshest of foods. You should too.

Don't be fooled into thinking a food is good just because fish readily eat it. Children prefer candy over broccoli, but it doesn't mean that candy is better for them. A taste preference can easily be acquired through hunger. Getting them to prefer foods that are also very good for them, is the trick. Even though it's not always needed, our way of getting them to develop a taste for a new food, works. It is described below.

Fish won't eat their new food?  When switching to a new fish food, we highly recommend getting the fish very hungry. Often times, fish become accustomed to a particular fish food and will not eat another, no matter how good it is for them. When introducing a new food, we usually don't feed the fish for 24-48 hours, depending on the size of the fish, and then offer only one bite per fish (key to success). Remove food after 1 minute if uneaten.  Do this every few hours. It may take several days, especially for larger fish that have become accustomed to other foods.  Don't worry, fish can easily and safely go much longer than this without food. Allowing the food to sit uneaten in the tank for even a couple hours can turn them off to the food permanently.  If you don't give in, this method works every time.  

Using this method, you can quickly get most fish to eat a new food like ravenous piranha without much effort. In fact, we have to be careful feeding, because they often jump out of the tank in their feeding frenzy.  Watch some of our fish feeding in the below video. Keep in mind, they were first introduced to these foods with this technique.

Make your own fish food. For the very best in homemade foods, take a look at our paste fish food recipe.