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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