What do you feed your Cichlids Guys & girls?
ThanksHiya! I feed my cichlids a variety of food to be honest as it helps them grow and maintain colour.. For a main diet I use vitalis south american cichlid formula which is a smaller sinking pellet based feed. I like to include bloodworms and peas into the diet every two-three days as it is important to get all aspects of the fishes diet. Hikari cichlid gold is another great main feed as is new life cichlid formula pellets
Hi Colin,What sort of cichlids do you keep?
Different cichlids require different foods. Some are vegetarian, others carnivores and others omnivores.
Bug bite is really good for most cichlids especially the larger ones.. Peas is probably the best as it is significantly easier to digest for fish and also leaves significantly less bio load if uneaten but I would still remove it for obvious reasons haha. Eliotis are as you say omnivores and will likely accept anything that will fit in their mouths that they like the taste of so you could do some blanched spinach or cucumber if it was in small enough pieces same goes for the multis. To be honest most cichlids will accept anything but the omnivores are just the easiest to work with as you have so much option for a diet ?Thanks
I did pick up some of the Hikari gold today luckily to give while i get some other varties ordered and i have got some bloodworms, brine shrimp etc
Was going to order some of the fluval bug bite cichlid formula but wasnt sure what else. ( im gathering they will also tuck into flake and other pellets i feed my other fish too)
Do you feed yours anymore greens other than peas?
Hiya! I feed my cichlids a variety of food to be honest as it helps them grow and maintain colour.. For a main diet I use vitalis south american cichlid formula which is a smaller sinking pellet based feed. I like to include bloodworms and peas into the diet every two-three days as it is important to get all aspects of the fishes diet. Hikari cichlid gold is another great main feed as is new life cichlid formula pellets
I use fluval bug bites over the hikari gold the hikari actually had E number preservatives