These diets are manufactured using an extruder (high pressure cylinder) through a mixing and heating process under high pressure.

By controlling the pressure and temperature simultaneously, the desired pellet can be manufactured to our exacting specifications.

Most general, round shaped expanded pellets best for Koi, Goldfish and Cichlids. Selected ingredients are heated and kneaded with the extruder under high temprature. With this process, protein and starch bind together to make a firm though soft pellets, this character prevents dissolving the pellets while feeding.

Hikari Staple Economy Friend Wheat-Germ Gold Spirulina Excel Hi-Growth Pond Sticks Chappy Oranda Gold Lionhead Goldfish Bio-Gold Cichlid Staple Cichlid Gold Cichlid Gold Sinking Cichlid Excel Betta Bio-Gold Cichlid Bio-Gold+ Saki-Hikari Basic Diet Color Enhancing Diet Growth Diet Multi Season Diet Fancy Goldfish Color Enhancing DIet Fancy Goldfish Basic DIet

Expanded pellets containing higher levels of air inside. When put in the water, they quickly absorb water and become sponge-like. This elasticity, not common in other foods, helps make them desirable to fish who normally eat only live foods.

Hikari Tropical Sinking Carnivore Pellets Food Sticks DISCUS Bio-Gold Turtle Sticks MASSIVORE DELITE Shrimp Cuisine Hikari Marine Marine-A Marine-S

Thinly sliced pellets in shapes developed to conform to the normal eating habits of plecostomus, corydoras and other bottom type feeders.

Hikari Tropical Algae Wafers Sinking Wafers Mircro Wafers

A food with very little air inside, designed to maintain its shape and integrity in water for a long time. Suitable for crayfish and hermit crabs that eat slowly by tearing the food into smaller edible pieces.

Hikari Tropical Crab Cuisine

A very small pellet made from pre-heated and powdered ingredients formed into small balls by using special, natural binders. Hikari's "Micro Coating" covers each granular pellet with a thin coating which keeps it from dissolving when put in water. Soft, easy to eat and full of nutrition, these pellets will not stain your aquarium water. Best for use with smaller tropical fish who would normally eat flakes.

Hikari Tropical Fancy Guppy Micro Pellets Hikari First Bites

Manufactured using a drum shaped dryer where liquid ingredients are sprinkled on the surface of a drum that is kept at very high temperature. As the liquid hits the drum it expands and a flake is formed. This type of food is softer and easier to eat. It's great for use in an aquarium where various sizes of fish are kept.

Hikari Flake Tropical Goldfish

Natural raw materials are rapidly frozen then dried in a vacuum condition as they are brought back to normal temperature. Hikari's pharmaceutical-grade process provides you with the best taste and nutritional value possible, significantly better than sun drying. Every Hikari Bio-Pure FD item has a well-balanced compliment of vitamins for good long-term health offering your pet a food as close to live as is humanly possible.

Hikari Bio-Pure FD Krill Brine Shrimp Ocean Plankton Blood Worms Daphnia Tubifex Worms