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Business Insider: The Best Fish Food Buying Guide

Many novice aquarium hobbyists make the mistake of thinking that all fish food is created equal. Not only do different species of fish have different nutritional needs, but different types of fish food offer different benefits. Our top pick for a high-quality fish food that meets the nutritional needs of a wide variety of freshwater and saltwater fish is New Life Spectrum Thera+A fish food.

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Reef Builders: Probiotix by New Life Spectrum is a Serious Probiotic Fish Food

Probiotic is one of the biggest buzzwords in nutrition both for people and aquariums, but the entire movement has a dirty secret. It’s cheap and easy to dust everything from foods to salt and even water with probiotic ‘spores’ – usually just Lactobacillus bacteria – but unless you verify their viability, there’s really no way to know that the probiotics added to a food are actually effective and doing anything for you. Probiotix by New Life Spectrum is a new food from one of the aquarium world’s leading pioneers in fish and aquarium nutrition. It’s easy to see the word ‘probiotic’ and lump Probiotix with all of the other foods currently jumping on this bandwagon but New Life Spectrum is very serious about the use of probiotic spores, and they’ve taken great lengths to ensure that what they are doing is actually making a difference. 

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Reef Builders: What Exactly Has Changed with New Life Spectrum Food?

Last year New Life Spectrum announced it was making some changes to its food and had it on hand at MACNA. For those of us that weren’t able to catch up with the New Life team there and were wondering what was new and what exactly New Life Spectrum Naturox series was, we have an answer. In this video released recently, the company discusses the changes.

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BettaSmart: Calculating the Real Cost of Betta Ownership

Betta fish attract people to them with more than just their bright colors and feisty personalities—their inexpensive needs tend to be the largest contributor to their popularity. For families and individuals who cannot house a large animal, or afford the lengthy list of costs they come with, they often turn to fish as a cheap alternative. But—buyer beware!—fish are not as cost free as they appear.

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Reef Builders: New Life Spectrum UltraRed pellets cranks the red up to 11

New Life Spectrum Ultra Red is a new line of prepared fish food designed to really amp up the red colors of our aquarium fish. If you thought that most modern high-quality aquarium fish foods already have their fair share of color enhancers, New Life Spectrum — which is raising the bar for the high-quality pelleted food market — has a new formulation so effective it even comes with a warning “Note: Feeding to yellow fish may cause a shift to orange coloration.”

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A Feeding Revolution?

Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine, August 2003. Author: David E. Boruchowitz

For othe 20th Anniversary of New Life Spectrum, we’re highlighting some milestones, including one of the early major articles about the high-nutrition fish food that changed an industry.

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