The April FOTM Contest Poll is open!
🏆 Click to vote! 🏆
They should be fed a variety of food including floating pellets, flake, bits of raw or cooked prawn, fish or squid, and any small insects that have been caught without chemicals/ sprays.
If you feed crickets, freeze the crickets first to kill them, then defrost them and offer 1 or 2 each day. try to use crickets that have just shed their skin so they aren't as tough and spikey.
Other insects like flies and mosquitoes can be fed live or dead. You can culture mealworms, earthworms, fruit flies and different types of beetles/ roaches for them. If the insects are spikey like crickets, kill the insect before feeding and try to use insects that have shed their skin recently so they are softer.
You can feed them as much as they can eat but make sure the water quality is kept good by doing regular water changes. I would feed dry food first, then frozen but defrosted prawn and fish, then maybe some insects after that. Do that once or twice a day for 6 days a week, then don't feed them on the 7th day.
Every African Butterfly fish I have kept has taken any and all sorts of floating foods within a few days of being put in a tank. They even take frozen (but defrosted) foods within a few days of getting them.