King British Catfish Pellets

A catfish in a community tank is at the wrong end of the queue. Whatever goes in at the top gets first refusal from everything faster, and what finally reaches the gravel is the leftovers, softened. Feeding a bottom dweller properly means putting something down there that was meant for it, rather than hoping enough survives the descent.

This is a complete food for catfish and other bottom-feeding tropical fish, so it is designed to be the whole diet rather than a supplement to flake. Protein is 47%, which is high, and it comes from several places — herring meal and mealworm meal head the list, with mycoprotein, brewer's yeast and salmon oil behind them. Fat is 9%, crude fibre 4% and crude ash 9%. Kelp, dried seaweed, spirulina and garlic flour are in the recipe, and King British state there are no artificial flavours, colourants or preservatives.

• Complete food for catfish and other bottom-feeding tropical fish
• Protein 47%, fat 9%, crude fibre 4%, crude ash 9%
• Herring meal, mealworm meal, mycoprotein and salmon oil among the sources
• Vitamin A 15500 IU/kg, vitamin C 260 mg/kg, vitamin E 60 mg/kg
• Whole wheat is second in the ingredient list, so it is not grain free
• 60G size

Nothing supplied says whether it sinks. For a food aimed at bottom feeders that is the question you would most like answered, and King British describe the fish rather than the pellet's behaviour in water. Their feeding instruction is also awkward here: two to three feeds a day, each enough to last about two minutes. On a bottom dweller you cannot easily watch that, so the honest approach is to lift out what is left rather than judge by eye. No calorie figure is published.

Who it's for: keepers of corydoras, plecs, loaches and other bottom dwellers in a tropical tank, especially anyone whose catfish is living on what the tetras drop.