What is the difference between Tropical flake food and Cichlid flake food are the flakes just bigger because the tropical flake food always end up with a lot of fine dust and feeding fairly large fish doesn't seem to be much of a meal for them.
Officially the ingredients should be different... Just check the 2 boxes. Flake is flake when it comes to size; in the end you get crumbles when any flakefood.