What Is Best For My Cichlids?

[star4]

I was given a large tub of floating cichid pellets which I occasionally feed to my fish along with veg, bloodworm pellets, flake foods, snails and live foods, but I am running out of the pellet food. There are so many on the market I am not sure which is best? do I go for a higher protien content?

I have also noticed some foods that "enchance colour" this sounds a little dodgy to me or am I fussing?

Thanks in advance.

Should say its for Serverums, firemouth, Eliotti, acara

 

[Davo86]

I use two types of Hikari Cichlid Gold, one that sinks and has an albino Oscar on the front (small pellets) and one that floats and has a red/black Oscar on the front (large pellets)

The majority of my fish go for the smaller pellets (Sev, Sajica, ellioti, acara, Nicaraguence, geophagus) with usually only my JD and Bichirs eating the larger pellets.

Both are a great choice for a staple diet although like you i also supplement with many other foods

Tetra Doromin is another good cichlid pellet, but i find this a bit more pricey and not really as good as the Hikari brand

 

[star4]

Cheers Davo will look that up, its floating I am after (I have some sinking ones) I just like to give them a good mix seems to keep them guessing about whats for dinner rather than squabbling lol

 

[snowflake311]

I say try it all. I give my fish the sinking pellets listed above I crush the small ones up from my rams and babys. They love them. I also feed flakes, dried krill and blood worms. I drop an algae wafer in to for my pleco but other fish pick at it too.

I give them what ever they will eat. They say giving a verity is best for them. So I say try it all.

 

[bitteraspects]

as far as "pellets" go, i feed my fish almost exclusively on dainichi pellets. mostly XL-pro and ultima. ultima can be pricey depending where you get it, but IME its well worth the cost. i also use hikari bio-gold as another staple pellet.

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

There are many good pellets on the market these days (Hikari Cichlid Gold not being one of them IMO.) NLS makes some really good dry foods, and their pellets come in a variety of sizes. Color enhancing food normally contains shell fish as a main ingredient (good source of the color enhancer astaxantin) or astaxanthin itself. You may also see various types of algae (like spirulina) that also aid in color enhancing. These enhancers only really work to bring out red, orange or yellow colors in fish.

 

[River Dog]

I'm with Davo, I feed Hikari cichlid gold, as well as Tetra Doromin and various other stuff. But there are lots of different pellets around, and you will find one that your fish prefer eventually. Although I have never had a Cichlid that refuses the Hikari gold.

 

[star4]

Thanks everyone, interesting about the colour inhancing pellets, I was a bit worried they were something nasty like dye or something lol

 

[River Dog]

Does anybody feed the JBL Cichlid XL pellets. They seem quite expensive, but how do they compare to the Hikari pellets ?