Feeding cichlids bugs
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During the Covid lockdown, because I live on a sort of isolated island in the Pacific, and that was closed to all frivolous travel, except the essentals,
where there are no pet shops or LFS of any kind, and there wasn't any access to any pelleted or commercial food of any kind, I had to do with whatever I could find.
Algae, insects, fish eggs and scraps from marine fish I cleaned and ate, even lizards that dropped off the ceiling, and the mosquito larvae from plant cutting recepticals were grown were used.
All fish thrived.
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Lol, when I saw that
duanes
had responded to a thread about feeding bugs...I knew that it was time to reach for the lobster bib! 
Most of us feed bugs....but he feeds BUGS!!!
Yesterday, after a torrential rainstorm, I was able to collect several hundred earthworms on my gravel driveway and the margins of the country road out front. These aren't the wonderful Ontario nightcrawlers of my youth, which could easily extend to 10+ inches when fully stretched out, but in the poorly-drained and thinly-dirted area in which I now live they are a welcome treat. My Axolotl feasted, as did the Goldfish and Cichlids in my community tank and a dozen or so Megalechis cats that were spawned in an outdoor stock tank last year; the fish were just big enough, and the worms just small enough, that they were fed whole.
But the real fun came when the remaining 3/4 of the worms were scooped up in a nice big slimy squirming handful, and dropped en masse into the eagerly waiting maw of my Jelly Cat. Both he and I enjoyed that thoroughly...even though it was over in the blink of an eye.
duanes
had responded to a thread about feeding bugs...I knew that it was time to reach for the lobster bib! Most of us feed bugs....but he feeds BUGS!!!Yesterday, after a torrential rainstorm, I was able to collect several hundred earthworms on my gravel driveway and the margins of the country road out front. These aren't the wonderful Ontario nightcrawlers of my youth, which could easily extend to 10+ inches when fully stretched out, but in the poorly-drained and thinly-dirted area in which I now live they are a welcome treat. My Axolotl feasted, as did the Goldfish and Cichlids in my community tank and a dozen or so Megalechis cats that were spawned in an outdoor stock tank last year; the fish were just big enough, and the worms just small enough, that they were fed whole.
But the real fun came when the remaining 3/4 of the worms were scooped up in a nice big slimy squirming handful, and dropped en masse into the eagerly waiting maw of my Jelly Cat. Both he and I enjoyed that thoroughly...even though it was over in the blink of an eye.
