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FishScience: The Go-To Fish Food for Hobbyists

FishScience is a premium brand of fish foods. The use of natural colour-enhancing ingredients, vitamin-rich components, and groundbreaking insect meal-based recipes make FishScience the go-to for breeders or keepers who place a high value on the overall health and vigour of their animals.

Why FishScience stands out

Perhaps the most notable “stand-out” feature of FishScience is the use of insect meal. Most commercially available fish foods particularly those that are set at lower price points, use fish meal as their primary protein component. They encourage insectivorous fish to eat flakes made from other fish, not insects. Not only is this completely unnatural, but it provides sub-par nutrition and encourages unsustainable fishing practices.

The insects that are used in FishScience are the protein-rich superfood Hermetia illucens, the larvae of the black soldier fly. These grubs, referred to in the reptile industry as calci-worms, are high in calcium, protein, and nutrient content. Weight-for-weight, they are arguably the most nutritious insects available on the market.

The lifecycle of the black soldier fly is fast and therefore, the farming of calci-worms produces a far smaller carbon footprint than that of cattle or fish.

FishScience range

There are many products in the FishScience range spanning pond foods, tropical foods, species-specific foods and more.

Within these categories are purpose-built foods such as Coldwater Pond Foods that use wheatgerm to lower the protein content during the colder months, resulting in less waste produced by the fish and better water quality among other benefits. Tropical foods are also grouped into flakes, pellets, and tablets and come in a variety of sizes from “micro” for fry and tetra to “wafers” which are large items with added oak wood, ideal for Corydoras.

Species-specific lines are also available for Betta (floating granules with a high insect-meal content to mimic their wild prey), fancy goldfish (slowly-sinking pellets that allow fish with limited mobility to feed efficiently), shrimp sticks (vegetable-rich sticks that sink for targeted feeding) and much more.

FishScience also offers a range of Cichlid foods in a range of sizes. These are broken down into Malawi and general Cichlid foods so the keeper can be sure they are selecting the very best product for their animals. Each product has been carefully crafted to meet the nutritional needs of the fish that it feeds.