Feeding Dilemma

[Kevdogg852000]

How in the heck am I supposed to not overfeed my tank when I have slow feeders like compressiceps in with downright greedy hogs like yellow labs. I know the yellow labs are being overfed because they're damn pigs and they're gonna eat themselves to death. But if I feed to little they hog all the food and the compressiceps and leleupi get absolutely nothing....any suggestions...or will I get 1 or zero responses as usual.

 

[brewyn]

try feeding at both ends of the tank like I do.

 

[Josiah]

I have this problem, what I do is wait a little until the yellow labs decide to go somewhere and then feed, or feed close the filter and the current pushes it around.

 

[mamafish68]

No need to be rude when ASKING for advice.



perfect reason for lake specific tanks or species specific tanks.

mbuna are notorious hogs, why pair them with slow, stealthy preditors like comps or calvus?

 

[rixy]

i had the same problem and in my opinion,it will not get better.mixing different fish is a gamble.i had 2 livingstoni and a eye biter plus lots of other africans.the livingstoni would eat everyone share of food and in the end,the tank was always green with algea,i had to do 40% water changes twice a week to keep the stats normal.it will not get better.

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

How in the heck am I supposed to not overfeed my tank when I have slow feeders like compressiceps in with downright greedy hogs like yellow labs. I know the yellow labs are being overfed because they're damn pigs and they're gonna eat themselves to death. But if I feed to little they hog all the food and the compressiceps and leleupi get absolutely nothing....any suggestions...or will I get 1 or zero responses as usual.

why would people answer questions worded like this?

 

[mamafish68]

my point also in above post AA, notice he hasnt been back to coment...

 

[chishnfips]

mama fish, every post I have seen of yours recently has been critical to the person who posts why not try dishing out helpful advice instead of criticism.

Kevdog: I have a similar problem in my tank with the barbs and kribs, the barbs chomp all the food in one go, but as brewyn said try feeding at opposite side of the tank it seems to work after the other fish cotton on.

do your compressiceps bottom feed if so you could try some sinking foods.

 

[mamafish68]

yerr cute ....

 

[Kevdogg852000]

well thanks for your input guys. I had the labs first because I had to order the other cichlids, and wanted something in the tank. I will likely just get rid of the labs and take them back to my LFS. the feeding at both ends works too. However what I notice is that labs would probably eat until they're literally sick.

In response to mamafish....nobody made you respond 2x to this post and if you don't like the way things are worded then that's fine. I just think that the African Cichlid page gets flooded with "What is this fish?" "ID this fish" "HELP, I PUT A PIRHANA IN WITH A JULIE"...etc. etc. Therefore, knowledgable posters can't respond to every question. I had a couple posts go completely unanswered a good while back, and yes it annoyed me. If you are that easily offended, please, just don't even post in threads I start.

 

[mamafish68]

lol ok, I guess i'll wear the scarlet letter for everyone else that took issue.....





this forum just tickles me daily