AAP Custom, formally Paradigm Fish Food

[Carlrs]

I want to give a shout out to the best fish food period:
AAP Custom, formally Paradigm Fish Food  by fish nutrition expert Clay Neighbors

Here is more information about it from their website:

 

WHY ARE PARADIGM/"AAP PREMIUM ALL NATURAL" THE BEST PREPARED FISH FOODS?

The original creator of of the ingredients and process for Paradigm and now "AAP Premium All Natural" fish foods has been breeding Rift Lake African cichlids going on 30 years now. We have tried every single manufactured fish food there is on the market and was never completely happy with any of them. The creator of Paradigms formula began studying the ingredients and nutritional analysis of each type of food by making comparison charts.
Then he took all the knowledge he learned about the different types of fish and their dietary needs by breeding fish plus all the research he had compiled on the different fish foods on the market including Carl's in depth Fish Nutrition article which he and Carl discussed at length in an aquarium forum for some time. He then decided that he could make a fish food far superior to any other food available.

Now the creator (Clay N) has decided to step it up a notch even more with an even newer formula that is 100% natural and better than his original Paradigm formula. This food is unique unlike how even most of the other better fish foods do not correctly limit/optimize proteins and still have to supplement their food to hit the target needed for optimal fish nutrition.
While there are many other prepared fish foods (or even good DIY recipes) that utilize top quality ingredients (including similar copycat fish foods), this AAP Custom Fish Food by Clay N. is unique in that it seeks to optimize ingredients, such as the before mentioned proteins instead of the popular "the more, the better of quality ingredients". As another example besides proteins, this fish food optimizes the amount of Spirulina used, since there is an optimal amount (reference: Spirulina as a Fish Food)

This is to be sold exclusively as "AAP Premium Custom All Natural" whereby the creator decided the protein make up could be improved. The creator felt the fish were getting more than needed with 99% of the foods available, which made for unnatural bulky fish. It can also cause some health issues with long term feeding as too much protein also can lead to premature renal failure, which unfortunately many of the otherwise very best competing foods tend to ignore this issue and go with "the more the better".
The binders of the food have also been reworked with kelp and peas

http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/ParadigmFoods.html

[Gregg H.]

I agree, definitely the best

EVERYONE should be using this stuff!

G

[Carlrs]

Beware of many sellers of fish foods masquerading as top notch.

* Run the energy point test.
* Look at whether these fish foods need to have supplementation of ingredients such as vitamin C
* Look at protein sources
* Is this food sold via Amazon or other discounters? The facts are that the costs involved in selling via discounters is prohibitive to making a quality fish food at the prices these are sold at

Read:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Quality_Fish_Food.html

Resource for true premium fish food:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/ParadigmFoods.html

Carl