Best food for cichlids
- Thread starter Kyel
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Here is all the fish that my fish get a mix up of:
NLS
Hikari Gold Sinking
Shrimp Pellets
Ken's Cichlid pellets
Ken's crumbles
Ken's medicated food (when needed)
Spirulina Tabs
Spirulina Flakes
Brine Shrimp Flakes
raw tilapia
raw market shrimp
frozen krill
frozen bloodworms
frozen silversides
Massivore
As long as you give them a variety, and stay away from Wardley/Tetra brands, you should be fine.
NLS
Hikari Gold Sinking
Shrimp Pellets
Ken's Cichlid pellets
Ken's crumbles
Ken's medicated food (when needed)
Spirulina Tabs
Spirulina Flakes
Brine Shrimp Flakes
raw tilapia
raw market shrimp
frozen krill
frozen bloodworms
frozen silversides
Massivore
As long as you give them a variety, and stay away from Wardley/Tetra brands, you should be fine.
I have heard so much good stuff about Hikari, however I just ordered Ching Mix as well 
gonna try them BOTH, mixing it up a bit, along with bloodworms...
For my FH and GT
Oh another thing, make sure the food has no steroids or hormone based stuff in it, it might make your fish look pretty in the short-run, but bad for the long-term.
gonna try them BOTH, mixing it up a bit, along with bloodworms...For my FH and GT
Oh another thing, make sure the food has no steroids or hormone based stuff in it, it might make your fish look pretty in the short-run, but bad for the long-term.
Mine get fed 3 small meals daily-
Meal 1, Hikari gold (protein) pellets + Hikari excel (veggie) pellets
Meal 2, brine shrimp sinking pellets (mainly for my catfish but the cichlids eat them too) + 2 Spirulina sinking disks.
Meal 3 , either frozen brine shrimp or bloodworm + a few cichlid excel pellets.
All in small amounts and they go 1 day a week without food.
Hikari gold is definately one of the best pellets for carnivorous cichlids and tropical fish.
Meal 1, Hikari gold (protein) pellets + Hikari excel (veggie) pellets
Meal 2, brine shrimp sinking pellets (mainly for my catfish but the cichlids eat them too) + 2 Spirulina sinking disks.
Meal 3 , either frozen brine shrimp or bloodworm + a few cichlid excel pellets.
All in small amounts and they go 1 day a week without food.
Hikari gold is definately one of the best pellets for carnivorous cichlids and tropical fish.
New Life Spectrum, and I don't mix it up.
You ever wonder why it would be impossible for one food to provide complete nutrition for a fish? WHY? Why couldn't a brand of food create a formula that provided complete nutrition? I think NLS is the closest thing on the market to this.
I do feed the occasional frozen food as a treat, but all my fish eat 90% NLS and look fantastic.
You ever wonder why it would be impossible for one food to provide complete nutrition for a fish? WHY? Why couldn't a brand of food create a formula that provided complete nutrition? I think NLS is the closest thing on the market to this.
I do feed the occasional frozen food as a treat, but all my fish eat 90% NLS and look fantastic.
feed hikari cichlid bio gold+ every morning for breakfast. other hikari pellets or hikari frozen bloodworms for lunch, and hikari freeze dried krill for dinner. For quicker growth in carnivorous fish, beefheart is a good treat once or twice a week.
I find that its best to find which food is overall best for the fish, and feed that one earlier in the day, and build up to tastier foods 'til night. You don't want your fish to say no to the quality pellets because he loves the bloodworms so much.
I find that its best to find which food is overall best for the fish, and feed that one earlier in the day, and build up to tastier foods 'til night. You don't want your fish to say no to the quality pellets because he loves the bloodworms so much.
aclockworkorange;4824039; said:New Life Spectrum, and I don't mix it up.
You ever wonder why it would be impossible for one food to provide complete nutrition for a fish? WHY? Why couldn't a brand of food create a formula that provided complete nutrition? I think NLS is the closest thing on the market to this.
I do feed the occasional frozen food as a treat, but all my fish eat 90% NLS and look fantastic.
NLS is good, and very specific in their ingredients (hikari only lists 'fish meal', while NLS lists 'whole herring meal' and whole antarctic krill meal'. Sounds better when its more specific, right? But that's only really for the source of protein). Hikari cichlid bio gold+ does have more spirulina than NLS, and it has A. niger fermentation extract (helps break down sugars from the wheat flour that is in both brands of food). Hikari cichlid bio gold+ also has astaxanthin, which is the main color enhancer in Hikari cichlid gold.
You can't go wrong with NLS, but Hikari Cichlid Bio Gold+ is my choice as a staple; with other hikari brands as treats and subsuquent meals.
aclockworkorange;4824049; said:
Blood worms are very high in protein (good for growth), and the hikari brand of frozen blood worms has vitamin supplements.
