Cichlid pellets for SA/CA ciclids, what have you tried and your opinion?

[goose_uk]

Cant really beat Hikari IMO. I would love to try massivore pellets but I can only get them online and theyare seriously expensive over here!! My cichlids love the Carniverous Sinking Pellets from Hikari....but I use a mix of of those, Gold and Staple (in between there frozen food and live shrimp...).

 

[Cichlid fanatic]

I mix Hikari Cichlid Gold & Hikari Bio Gold, my fish love them and it brings out there colour alot. Im not to sure about HBH though, i remember they were recalling a few of there products not too long ago due to problems with the content. Just stick to Hikari.

I use the same. Cichlid gold and Bio gold are great! Ive used Tetra brand cichlid sticks but I trashed them after 3 weeks because my cichlids would not eat them.

 

[darthodo]

Cichlid Bio Gold is pricey IMO. Is it really worth it. Not that I haven't purchased some expensive foods as you can see.

 

[TrikkyMakk]

I give mine Hikari gold and they all love it except my JAck Dempsey who prefers the daily brine cube I put in each day. I also put in the brine shrimp pellets that sink to the bottom
and algae wafers once in a while. They all like that stuff except Jack.

 

[Modest_Man]

Taken from another post of mine. People really swear by Hikari, but it's really not anywhere near the top of quality foods.

A really good quality food should have a lot of seafood high up the ingredient list, with the fillers low down.

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Hikari Cichlid Gold
Ingredients: fish meal, flaked corn, wheat flour, gluten meal, brewer's dried yeast, starch, enzyme, garlic, astaxantin, DL-methionine, monosodium glutamate, vitamins and minerals including stabilized vitamin C

Everyone loves Hikari (I feed it myself) but the fish cannot digest the flaked corn and the wheat flour, the second and third most ingredients (they're binding agents). The stabilized vitamin C is great though.

I like Hikari Bio-gold, as wheat flour is the 4th ingredient and it doesn't contain any corn. Their ingredient list on the Hikari website and on my package aren't the same though....odd.

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Massivore Delite
fish meal, krill meal, starch, wheat flour, dried seaweed meal, brewer's dried yeast, dried A. niger fermentation extract, astaxanthin, canthaxanthin, vitamins and minerals

Massivore delite has wheat flour as the number 4 ingredient as well, with some good seafoods.

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New Life Spectrum
Krill, Herring, Wheat flour, Squid, Algae Meal, Soybean Isolate, Spirulina, Beta carotene, Garlic, Vitamins and trace elements

NLS appears to be a great quality food. I need to go pick some up and try it out methinks.

Probably too much info, but there ya go.

If you want to read up on fish nutrition, I found this on the NLS website.

http://nlsfishfood.com/index.php?opt...1&limitstart=0

 

[StripeGirl]

My friend makes his own in a lab with all kinds of good things in them.My fish love them!At a fraction of the cost.

 

[Cecropia]

My male RD still won't eat anything that isn't live and the female won't touch any pellets that aren't Top Fin Sm Cichlid pellets Wheat is the number 1 ingredient in that so I've been trying to get her off them.

 

[twhittle]

Cichlid Bio Gold is pricey IMO. Is it really worth it. Not that I haven't purchased some expensive foods as you can see.

Hikari Bio-gold is only 8.99 for the big bag if you use the petsmart online price matching coupon. That is the best IMO.

 

[scubasteve06]

I use Hikari exclusively besides my some of my frozen foods and even the bio-pure krill and bw's are Hikari. The combo's I have going now are Massivore, Sinking Carnivore Pellets, Bio-Gold, Staple, Tropical wafers, and Algae wafers, first bites for my fry, and I feed the cichlid excel to my communtiy fish becasue it has tons of spirulina in it.

 

[fishfarm]

I used to feed NLS but have switched to Xtreme, the fish like it more and grow faster, I feed 600 tanks a day and need a good, overall high quality food I can feed to everything. Ken