Yello Lab

[freddyk]

LEt me double check this, just standard Tropical flakes??

Yes, these are fine for the Labs. Most of the difference between standard fish food and standard cichlid food is the label and piece size.

i was referring to all of the fish in my Mbuna tank

In this case you need to be more careful, but it depends on species. Despite the generalization of mbuna as a single class to think about, the diet can differ quite vastly among them. A common mbuna (pseudotropheus, melanochromis) should get a considerable amount of spirulina, but it doesn't need to be more then, say, half the diet or so. Just as the Lab needs very little 'veggie' in the diet, some species, like Tropheops, should have a diet almost exclusively spirulina.

Variety is the key to a healthy diet, not any specific food. My mbuna get spirulina flakes, a standard flake, a standard pellet, and the odd treat of brine shrimp, which is really not necessary, but they love it. I don't have a routine, I feed them whichever I feel like, whenever I feel like.

 

[keane]

Cool!

Then I am good to go because I feed mine pretty much a half and half anyway (with the peas etc and brine shrimp as a weekly extra) and I have premodinantly Labs, Pseudos and Melanochromis (not including my Haps ) ) )

cheers freddy.

steve 8)

 

[Ferris]

I feed mine a mixture of Cichlid pellets, Spirinula sticks and sometimes ordinary tropical flake.

I agree with Steve, they go absolutely mad for the normal flake, daft fish don't know what's good for them.

 

[Metermaid]

I am finding a difference in Yellow Lab growth, I have 4 juvies and one, which was a fair bit bigger when I bought it....is really out growing the others, the smallest, most colourful one doesn't seem to be growing at all...looks happy enough though

 

[Losi]

I wont worry too much then as it seems that there is nothing out of the ordinary, thanks guys!!