I keep & breed a wide variety of fish, including Pearl Chromides (who'll eat anything), furcata & gertrudae rainbows, hillstream loaches, ocellatus shelldwellers, etc. The hillstreams are probably the most challenging to feed well enough to get into spawning condition, as their natural diet consists of diatoms, some algae, & very tiny inverts -& the food must be on the surface of rocks or the substrate. They tend to be very reluctant to eat commercially prepared foods, but they love these earthworm flakes. I can't grow diatoms fast enough to keep well-supplied, but feed them ew flakes every day as part of their feeding regimen, & have had them spawn in a setup i had a couple of years ago, and I've had a group of 6 in a 55g tank for about a year now, & I started seeing baby hillstreams a couple months ago.The high protein ew flakes are also a good addition to the rainbows' diet, since they feed on insects & insect larvae in the wild & need a high protein diet. Rainbows generally spawn like crazy all the time, but if they don't get enough protein in their diets they tend to eat the eggs & fry. My furcatas are in the same 55 as the hillstreams (bottom half of tank is river rocks with a power head providing current over/through them, top half has tons of riccia & java moss). Starting with 1 male & 4 female furcatas, I now have at least a couple dozen babies of varying sizes. The furcatas aren't usually too wild about flake food, but they also happily snork down the earthworm flakes.
I definitely recommend this food as part of a good aquarium fish diet. [I also feed live microworms, white worms, Grindal worms (when I can get 'em), baby brine shrimp, & fruit flies, as well as frozen daphnia, rotifers, bloodworms, & mysis (for the larger fish).]
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