Feeding African Cichlid With Goldfish Pallet

[singlecutguitar]

I have 3 Electric Yellow and I feed them goldfish pallet, I wonder if it's okay because it is hard to find Cichlid food here

 

[Chad]

Check the ingredients against those of some cichlid food.
 
One of our LFS recently had an anniversary party and gave away free stuff. I got some cichlid food (even though I have no cichlids right now I took it) and when I compared the ingredients to Formula II they were about the same.
 
Cold water fish will often have food with a higher fat and protein content than tropical so this is one main area to consider.
 
So the short answer is maybe and sometimes. It all depends on the brand and ingredients.

 

[singlecutguitar]

Unfortunately I'm not living in United States

 

[Chad]

I don't understand why that matters...

 

[FishGuy2000]

Order it i feed my cichlids Hickory Gold Pellets

Ops 2 smiley faces lol

 

[singlecutguitar]

Order it

i feed my cichlids Hickory Gold Pellets

Ops 2 smiley faces lol

 
I realized that some goldfish pallet have color enhancer added, does it have affect the fish ?

 

[Chad]

Other than enhancing color none that I know of.

 

[ripil]

I feed gold fish flakes as its lower in protein most of the time, must be doing some good I got about 100 labs and two more sets coming

 

[Agent14]

Whats in the goldfish pellets? Yellow labs, electric yellows..whatever you want to call them are herbivores. They rarely sell the proper food for them in any store. You will have to order food online for them. They are lake Malawi Mbunas.. a proper pellet will have spirulina and other veggies it. I reccomend making sure they are not full of fillers like wheat flour. They really enjoy fresh zucchini too! Cute it into spears then freeze them overnight and thaw it out and they will LOVE it. My mbunas go bananas for zucchini. You can even buy seaweed at an asian market and use an aquarium food clip and put that in there for them too.
 
 
If you have the time ( I don't) you can grate a bunch of veggies and add seaweed like peas, zucchini, carrots, spinach, and romaine lettuce. then freeze it in small bags with one feedings worth in each then thaw in tank water then give it to them