I have been using New Life Spectrum food consistently for the last 11 years. Though I have tried most available brands, I consider Spectrum the best quality food on the market. I have advised hundreds of my customers to use this food and have never heard negative feedback from anyone that has their fish feeding on it.

Fish generally need smaller amounts of Spectrum than of other foods in order to achieve the same results. This is one of the reasons why tanks where fish are fed exclusively Spectrum have consistently lower nitrate and phosphate levels and high loads of fish are able to be maintained with lower maintenance in any system if they are fed exclusively Spectrum. Food that is not eaten doesn’t break down and pollute the water like other foods before scavenging fish have had a chance to come back and find it.

Spectrum gives the fish impressive colour, great health and maintains high water quality. I have seen symptoms of head and lateral line disease reverse and have noticed reduced cases of bloat in fish fed even exclusively Spectrum food. Spectrum will give your fish the best possible colour without the use of hormones.

I have used Spectrum with equally impressive results in all type of fish, from hardy fish like Goldfish, Siamese fighting fish, Tetras, and Cichlids to finicky Tropheus, Marine Butterflies and Angels.

I have found that fish which most people claim are impossible to keep thrive if fed a diet of at least 80% Spectrum food. Though I see value in a varied diet, I still find that the most impressive results are produced where Spectrum is fed exclusively.

Anyone that has fish that are fed feeder fish will find terrific results if they feed up the feeder fish with Spectrum before they feed them to their predatory fish. However, most predatory fish can be trained to eat Spectrum directly.

I have tried feeding every type of Spectrum to every type of fish and have seen the same results so I don’t believe it is a problem to feed the goldfish formula to even marine fish.

Good luck and enjoy

Paul Talbot

This article was written in the year 2002 and now in 2008 this product is distributed by Chris Talbot (Aqua Premium).