Good Floating Pellet For Cichlids

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If you don't mind going old school, my Salvini & Blue Acara thrive on (Tetra floating Cichlid sticks).

I break them up into three pieces. The fish go nuts over them.

Of course I mix in Omega One & NLS products as well to balance things out.
 
A201 said:
If you don't mind going old school, my Salvini & Blue Acara thrive on (Tetra floating Cichlid sticks).

I break them up into three pieces. The fish go nuts over them.

Of course I mix in Omega One & NLS products as well to balance things out.
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Tried some of the northfin 2mm cichlid pellets today and the jag didn't wanna take to them. The vieja went after it after noticing there's nothing on top of the surface lol

I thought about omega one but think they can be a little bit harder than most pellets
 
My chocolates like omega-one catfish pellets. After all chocolates are type of kitten.

My flag cichild wait till i reach for the flakes to eat mostly rejecting pellets - they like sera and oemga-one.
 
When evaluating foods... How much weight should we put on "my fish eagerly eat it" ?

My nephew will choose chocolate cake over any other food offered. And he prefers cold pizza over most other things. But that doesn't mean cold pizza and chocolate cake are a good staple diet.

I'd suggest foods that are eagerly consumed "taste better". I have no idea if our fish have "taste buds" the same way we do, or what qualities a food would have to make it "taste better".

I would suggest we are better off to instead consult the ingredients list and nutritional labels. Select a food that has quality ingredients and provides a balanced diet. Then 'teach' our fish to accept it. Sure stubborn fish may reject the higher quality food for a day or two. But they'll accept the quality stuff before starving themselves. And even the most stubborn fish should be able to be outsmarted with blending foods.
 
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Toby_H said:
When evaluating foods... How much weight should we put on "my fish eagerly eat it" ?

My nephew will choose chocolate cake over any other food offered. And he prefers cold pizza over most other things. But that doesn't mean cold pizza and chocolate cake are a good staple diet.

I'd suggest foods that are eagerly consumed "taste better". I have no idea if our fish have "taste buds" the same way we do, or what qualities a food would have to make it "taste better".

I would suggest we are better off to instead consult the ingredients list and nutritional labels. Select a food that has quality ingredients and provides a balanced diet. Then 'teach' our fish to accept it. Sure stubborn fish may reject the higher quality food for a day or two. But they'll accept the quality stuff before starving themselves. And even the most stubborn fish should be able to be outsmarted with blending foods.
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Thankfully PIZZA is actually pretty good for you. Cake not so much but if you are going to eat cake carrot is the way to go.


As for my fish - they'd love some live fishes if i was that sort of feeder. Personally I think raw live fishes taste pretty awful.
 
Roger Mcfish said:
I'm looking to veer off hikari mini pellets for my vieja and jag juveniles and I'm looking for something that has more natural/better ingredients. Sure, they're growing off of it, but I want them to have a better diet.
My fish are surface eaters and was looking for a pellet that floats.

Are there any better floating pellets besides hikari? (Im not a fan of omega, find them to be a little too hard).
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My best answer to this is porpoise sinking pellets and floating pellets around 180g if not available you can try the standard porpoise food pellets for your fish and just crack them down into small pieces to make sure the fish can swallow and digest it without the fish choking thats the way I feed my monster fish as juveniles in my opinion start feeding the juveniles once a day with high protein pellets to avoid to much waste in the tank. This is only my suggestion if you already have one.
 
My fish eagerly eat NLS pellets, I have a variety of algaemax, probiotix, thera+, and cichlid formula, and the Thera+ seems to make them the most excited, but they eat any of it. Of course it's all they've ever had, and I tend to keep them a bit hungry, only feed 5 times a week. I've had chocolate cichlids, firemouths, severums, acaras, green terrors, africans, synodontis, pictus, various plecos, livebearers, danios, loaches, etc. Everyone lived happily on NLS. They have a float formula too, never tried it, but available up to like 8mm pellets.
 
Cal Amari said:
My fish eagerly eat NLS pellets, I have a variety of algaemax, probiotix, thera+, and cichlid formula, and the Thera+ seems to make them the most excited, but they eat any of it. Of course it's all they've ever had, and I tend to keep them a bit hungry, only feed 5 times a week. I've had chocolate cichlids, firemouths, severums, acaras, green terrors, africans, synodontis, pictus, various plecos, livebearers, danios, loaches, etc. Everyone lived happily on NLS. They have a float formula too, never tried it, but available up to like 8mm pellets.
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I wanna try their float pellets but they may be still big for my guys
 
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