JBL NovoFIL - 250ml

JBL NovoFIL - 250ml is a freeze-dried natural food for tropical freshwater fish and turtles. JBL gives the target fish size as 5 to 20cm. It comes in a 250ml pack.

Key Features

• Freeze-dried: drying rather than cooking keeps more of the food intact, and it keeps far longer than frozen or live food.
• A supplement, not a staple: rich natural foods are good for conditioning and for fussy feeders, but they are not a balanced diet on their own.
• Suits turtles too: JBL lists this one for tropical freshwater fish and for turtles, which is unusual for an aquarium food.
• Sized for 5 to 20cm fish: JBL works this range out by body length, because mouth size is what decides whether a fish can actually eat a piece.
• 250ml pack: pick a size you will get through in a few months rather than the biggest on the shelf.

How To Feed It

• This is a supplement, not a staple. Use it once or twice a week alongside a complete flake or granulate, not instead of one.
• Soak a pinch in tank water for a moment before feeding. Dry freeze-dried food swells after it is swallowed, and soaking it first avoids that.
• Feed only what is taken in a couple of minutes and net out the rest.
• Rich foods go further than you expect. A small pinch is usually plenty.

Good To Know

• Overfeeding is behind most cloudy water and high nitrate. The food is rarely the problem; the amount almost always is.
• Keep the tub shut and somewhere cool and dry. Damp gets into fish food easily, and once it does the vitamins go and mould can follow.
• Buy a size you will finish inside a few months. A big tub left open for a year is a false economy.
• No one food suits every fish in a community tank. A staple plus something that reaches the bottom feeders works better than one food for all.