Gel food in the UK

Hi, I've seen that a lot of people responding on this page are from the
UK. Is it true that Tetra do a good selection of gel food in the UK?
Have looked here (US) and have found none except online. Would rather
try a pack first without doing a fair sized order. I'm going to
England soon and thought I would purchase some if the rumour is true
:-) Don't know if I would have trouble with customs coming back into
the US though.

Any thoughts?

Mellie

On 11 Mar 2006 10:00:02 -0800, Mellie101 wrote:
Hi, I've seen that a lot of people responding on this page are from the
UK. Is it true that Tetra do a good selection of gel food in the UK?

Hello from London!

What do you mean by "gel food"?

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Hello in London. I'm a Kent girl living in NE USA. Hope your weather
is better there :-)

I've heard quite a bit about this 'gel food' and how good it is in
preventing swim bladder problems. I think it was available here but
Tetra no longer advertise it on their website and I haven't seen any.
My LFS said they used to carry it. I think it was food suspended in a
protein jelly. (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong). I've done
some hunting around and have googled it but can find very little about
it unless it is similar to what reptiles are eating :-)

I've looked at the Tetra UK and AU and they seem to have some great
products that I haven't seen here. Especially the FishDelica product
which is in a jelly. I will go and have a look in some pet store when
I'm back in Blighty.

It might just be that the local 3 petstores, around here, just aren't
brilliant. It took me 2 days to hunt down Furanase. All they would
recommend for everything was pimafix. Think they aren't too
knowledgable or have been spoken to by a very convincing sales rep :-)

Not very informative on the gel food am I? :-)

Mellie

You are talking about this I think :

Tetra Fresh Delica

Tetra FreshDelica is natural food in a nutritious vitamin-enriched jelly.

It comes in 3 varieties:

Tetra FreshDelica Whole Bloodworms
Tetra FreshDelica Daphnia
Tetra FreshDelica Brine Shrimps

Tetra FreshDelica has the following benefits for you and your fish.




a.. Sterilised - no need for storage in a fridge or freezer. 2 year shelf
life.
b.. Packed in simple, easy-to-use, single-use sachets (16 sachets per
pack)
c.. Sachet "nozzle" allows easy, clean feeding
d.. Will not cloud the water
e.. Excellent acceptance by all types of fish - Goldfish, Tropical &
Marine

"Mellie101" wrote in message
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Hi, I've seen that a lot of people responding on this page are from the
UK. Is it true that Tetra do a good selection of gel food in the UK?
Have looked here (US) and have found none except online. Would rather
try a pack first without doing a fair sized order. I'm going to
England soon and thought I would purchase some if the rumour is true
:-) Don't know if I would have trouble with customs coming back into
the US though.

Any thoughts?

Mellie

On 12 Mar 2006 05:27:09 -0800, Mellie101 wrote:
I've looked at the Tetra UK and AU and they seem to have some great
products that I haven't seen here. Especially the FishDelica product
which is in a jelly. I will go and have a look in some pet store when
I'm back in Blighty.

Oh - you mean Delica, gottit!

I've used that a few times as a treat. It's very popular! I used
to feed a tiny bit to a betta who wasn't eating, and then the rest
to another tank. It's ok if you feed it into still water, stays in
blobs, but it broke up when it hit filter flow, I imagine it then
vanished into the water and rotted?

And yes, you can get that pretty much anywhere here. I just didn't
know what you meant!

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