what do you feed your cichlid?

[ahud]

NLS and NLS and some NLS. Microworms and BBS when growing fry.

 

[welsher7]

I feed hikari and nls pellets, along with chopped up fish filets and shrimp.

 

[cichlid18]

i feed a wide variety of food for my fish from pellets to live gut loaded insects and worms to fresh market seafood.
all fish eat a variety of pellets as staple daily consisting of high quality pellets. these are what i feed... xtreme aquatic
monster pellets, hikari gold, hikari carnivore stick, hikari jumbo sticks, high quality shrimp/krill sticks, sinking carnivore,
hikari massivore, nls arowana floating, nls gold, nls sinking, hikari algae wafers & hikari gold bio+ for pellets. for live
i feed gut loaded meal worms, superworms, silk worms, dubai roaches, earthworms, red wigglers, night crawlers,
canadian crawlers, crickets, frogs & centipedes. as for fresh seafood i feed shrimp, tilapia filet, tuna filet (as treats),
and salmon filet (as treats). now this is what i feed all my fish not just cichlids. for smaller fish fish, fry and growouts
ill add live brineshrimp and bloodworms along with the diet.

That's a lot. I am thinking of going with xtreme aquatics monster but those pellets are too big for my other fish.

 

[cichlid18]

I feed hikari and nls pellets, along with chopped up fish filets and shrimp.

What nls do you feed?

 

[tomojsg]

That's a lot. I am thinking of going with xtreme aquatics monster but those pellets are too big for my other fish.

they have smaller sized pellets too

 

[cichlid18]

they have smaller sized pellets too

I just saw that, i kinda rather floating pellets

 

[cichlid18]

what are the most important things to look for when buying fish food. Also how much protein/fats do i want ?

 

[rich_one]

I feed a mixture of YourFishStuff brand foods: Cichlid pellets, monster fish pellets, large veggie sticks, krill. Sometimes I mix in the spirulina pellets too. My only beef with this brand is the cichlid pellets and spirulina pellets only come in one pellet size. So I may switch those two to a brand that carries a larger pellet size for those pellets (I'm talking size of actual pellet, not size of package). My gibberosas basically get mostly krill though. Everything else gets the mixture.

-Rich

 

[rich_one]

Also, I feed my fish once every other day.

-Rich

 

[tomojsg]

what are the most important things to look for when buying fish food. Also how much protein/fats do i want ?

depends on the diet your fish needs but good pellets will have around 60-70% protein