Upper level fish should be fed foods suited to them, not sinking foods intended for substrate feeders like catfish and loaches. Not likely so much a nutritional issue as one of feeding itself, such as you have noted here.
Thanks for your advice ! I do have hikari pellets for my cichlids but one or two fishes always end up eating the most and others remain underfed . My idea of feeding wafers is so that every fish gets to eat some and also since i have a rainbow cichlid in there who never comes up while feeding pellets ...turns out he dosent like wafers too
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