Cichlid food

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Cichlidfever

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Is it okay to have a varitety of different dry foods and scramble/mix it all up and feed your cichlids? Does this way have any advantages or disadvantages? My thinking is that they would get a little of some of everything every day... Also I heard the Ken's Farm fish food was good quality and different, true or false? If true, how do I get some? Is it okay to feed your cichlid, NLS, hickory gold (probably spelled wrong), Ken's fish food, Omega One, a mixer of all these each day?
 
Such as... And also, when you feed premuim, should you stick to one kind/name brand or should you have a variety of food, and is it okay to mixed them up when you feed them?
 
Everyone has an opinion and anecdotes to back it up. Anything conclusive? No

Feed a mix, stick to one brand, it isn't vital.
 
i dont know why it would be bad?
i feed mine different food everyday just to keep them open to whatever i want to throw in there.
cichlid sticks, freeze dried krill, hikari gold, NLS sinking pellets and they tend to eat m hikari sinking carviore pellets before my cats can get to them
 
I feed all my fish a variety of foods my reasoning being that anything missing from one will be covered by the others. It might be flawed thinking but it cant hurt.

My current rotation in no particular order: Aqueon Tropical flakes, Omega One Goldfish flakes, Hikari Cichlid pellet, FD blood worms, FD brine shrimp, Hikari algae and sinking wafers, Omega One shrimp pellets. Fish all seem happy and healthy.
 
I'm not going to say that there aren't a lot of good foods out there, I havn't bought a lot of Cichlid foods myself, however the Premium brand Tilapia foods are giving me great results at great prices. It not full of fillers....

All I can say is to take a look at it, and maybe you'll give it a try. I'd like some feedback from some people on here. I know my Tilapia are a type of Cichlid, but with Tilapia, maximum growth is the only thing that matters.

I'm representing the Premium brand because I am doing Tilapia business with the owners. It's a family operation with family type support, and to me, that's important.

Mike
 
I personally wouldn't consider a fish food formulated with ingredients such as; poultry meal, poultry fat, soybean meal, ground corn, corn gluten meal, and spray dried animal blood cells - to be a "premium" food.

It reads like most generic farm feeds that can be bought in bulk at low cost, due to the rather low cost raw ingredients. Lots of feed mills in the US sell their food in 25-50lb bags for similar prices.
 
That, I have to disagree with. the common "50 lb bag" feed is 32% protein. I have a bag of it here...

The Premium foods are 50% protein, which means you can either feed less, or get the fish growing faster. But the things like "blood cells" and such, from what I know, are going to be necessary to get from 32% to 50% Protein.

I'm no feed expert, never claimed to be. I'm just using their food to grow Tilapia.

Mike
 
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