Sera

German company Sera GmbH was established in 1970 and its products are known throughout the world. In the area of the fish food it has some very strong brand names.

PRODUCT REVIEWS:

Viformo

This tablet food has certainly many beneficial features. It can be used with biggies and baby fish, because it pulverizes easily. It has very good nutritional values for growing fry and breeding purposes.

INGREDIENTS:
Fish meal, wheat flour, brewers yeast, gammarus, spirulina algae meal, sea algae meal, cod-liver oil, herbs, lucerne meal (alfalfa), stinging nettle meal, green-lipped mussel meal, parsley, paprika, spinach meal, carrots, garlic and colorants.

NUTRITIONAL VALUES:
Crude protein 44,1% Min
Crude fat 7,1% Min
Crude fiber 4,9% Max
Moisture 6,6% Max
Crude ash 12% Max
Vitamin A 29983 IU/kg
Vitamin D3 1499 IU/kg
Vitamin E 60 IU/kg
Vitamin B1 31 IU/kg
Vitamin B2 90 IU/kg
Stabilized vitamin C 551 IU/kg

VARIETIES AND PRICE LEVEL:
Sera Viformo comes in many sizes: 50 ml, 100 ml, 250 ml and 1,4 kg.
Prices vary from 3€ to 40€.

APPETITE:
Viformo seems to be very wanted type of food. Many species that are not bottom dwellers go after them.

SINKING SPEED:
Sinks immediately and pulverizes easily.

This bucket contains 5400 Viformo tablets and it weights 1,4 kg.

An Viformo tablet has a diameter of 8 mm.

An Elephantnose Fish (Gnathonemus petersii) has just found a Viformo tablet under a root
Clown loaches and barbs are seemingly jealous.

Dwarf plecos like this Otocinclus vittatus (LDA23) can not resist Sera Viformo.

Sera Brine Shrimp eggs

Newly hatched Artemia salina is a very common food for smaller fish and fry. Eggs are sold under variety of brands, but Sera eggs have the best hatching rate. With JBL ArtemioSet they are very easy to use:
a) Put 1/2 liter (about 20-28 Celsius) to the container.
b) Add one tablespoon of coarse sea salt.
c) Add 1/2-1 teaspoon of Brine Shrimp eggs.
d) All eggs are hatched in two days in the temperature of 24 Celsius.

When feeding with Artemia, lighting, filtration and aeration should be turned off. Overfeeding is not advisable. It can cause a problem in the form of Hydras. Hydras can be hazardous for baby fish. Newly hatched Artemia contains 52% of protein and 19% of fats. It is advisable to add vitamins to diet if fish fry is solely fed with these.

Sera Artemia eggs are sold in a 425g can which costs about 60 Euros.

A JBL Artemio sieve with newly hatched Artemia.

JBL Artemio Set is a very easy way to grow your own live fish food.

Although Hydra are usually very small (here 2-3mm) they can be lethal to small fry.
If Artemia is used too extensively as baby food, Hydras become a problem.
If there are many of these, stop feeding with live food for at least one week.
Hydra reproduce by producing buds in the body wall.

This female Three spot gourami (Trichopodus trichopterus) has a temporary special task.
It eats hydras from a nano tank. A small fish in the bottom is Nothobranchius furzeri female.

It is recommended to use special salt when breeding out Artemia nauplies.

Aquaristic.net Artemia salt is fine grained and it is sold in a 275ml can.

Young Nothobranchius steinforti eating Artemia nauplii.

Sera Marin Gourmet Nori

Sera Marin Gourmet Nori is an optimal nutrient additive and a healthy treat consisting of 100% natural, easily digestible marine macro algae (Nori) with a high natural level of high quality protein, highly unsaturated fatty acids and many vitamins. It is rich in iodine and other important trace elements. Sera Marin Gourmet Nori is also readily eaten by herbivorous freshwater fish and crustaceans like Neocaridina species.
NUTRITIONAL VALUES:
Crude protein 27,5 %
Crude fat 1,9 %
Crude fiber 4,9 %
Moisture 10,4 %
Crude ash 11,1 %

VARIETIES AND PRICE LEVEL:
Sera Gourmet Nori is sold in a 5 g bag, which costs about two euros.

APPETITE:
Very good.

SINKING SPEED:
Floats. Sinks after few hours.

This is the only package size available.

Sera Marin Gourmet Nori is only dried, not processed in any other way.

A piece of Sera Marin Gourmet Nori
is attached to Riccia fluitans and a group of Neocaridina davidi shrimps are eating it.

Sera freeze-dried Bloodworms

Freeze-drying is an excellent way to preserve fish food. In the case of bloodworms it has some other beneficial feature too. It does not cause so easily allergenic reactions which are very typical when hobbyist is using fresh or frozen Bloodworms.

NUTRITIONAL VALUES:
Crude protein 59,0%
Crude fat 6,1%
Crude fiber 3,7%
Moisture 7,8%
Crude ash 8,2%

VARIETIES AND PRICE LEVEL:
Sera bloodworms are sold in two sizes 100 ml and 250 ml. 250 ml of bloodworms weights only 20 g. The prices vary from 5 to 10 euros.

APPETITE:
Fish are generally very found of this food. Still the appetite is not as good as with frozen bloodworms. Sera freeze-dried bloodworms are very small, so they can be consumed by smaller fish, too. This food (like any other bloodworm product) must not be given to tropheus cichlids.

SINKING SPEED:
Floats very long and sinks slowly.

This product has a very good package with seals.

A small group of Nothobranchius steinforti juveniles have gathered near the surface
in order to eat some Sera FD Bloodworms.

Sera bloodworms are tiny and can be given to smaller fish.