Chocolate cichlid doesn't like it's food anymore...

[Jglenn213]

We dont want sick babies! Can anyone tell sex on these? I'm not good at it. Count chocola always displays this pattern and coloration during a water change.

 

[neutrino]

Haven't used it for years but I used to get that on occasion with Hikari, some fish would just turn off to it after a while. On the other hand, don't know about chocolates, but as mentioned some larger fish will slow down eating once they reach a certain size and age.

Also agree with water quality being a possibility, your water certainly looks great, but if nitrates bumped up more than usual and more than they're used to, maybe that's a factor. My nitrates are low and everything else is spot on-- even at that, a big water change seems to make my fish hungry, even with my silty well water that my filters have to clear up after water changes.