JBL ProNovo Danio Grano XS Fish Food

JBL ProNovo Danio Grano XS Fish Food is JBL's everyday staple food for danios and other small shoaling fish. JBL gives the target fish size as 3 to 5cm.

Key Features

• Everyday staple: a complete food meant to be the one your fish get most days, rather than a treat or a supplement.
• Granulate, not flakes: granules sink slowly instead of sitting on the surface, so fish feeding at every level get a share rather than just the ones at the top.
• Prebiotic: JBL adds prebiotic fibre across the ProNovo range.
• Very fine granules: sized for a small adult mouth, which is a different thing from a fry food.
• Sized for 3 to 5cm fish: JBL works this range out by body length, because mouth size is what decides whether a fish can actually eat a piece.

How To Feed It

• Feed small amounts two or three times a day rather than one big meal. Fish have very short guts and do better on little and often.
• Give only what is cleared in two or three minutes. Anything still drifting after that will rot in the substrate and push your nitrate up.
• Net out the leftovers. Uneaten food is the usual reason a tank goes cloudy a day or two after feeding.
• A fasting day once a week does healthy adult fish no harm and gives the filter a chance to catch up.

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.
• Match the piece size to the mouth. Anything a fish cannot swallow gets picked at, dropped and left in the gravel.
• 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.