Just new to this kind of fish, 3 inch baby. Please advice me which brand of food do you used to grow the hump ? I plan to buy Hikari cichlid bio-gold from the shop near my house but not so sure if it suitable for this fish ?
Food advice for new fish.
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New Life Spectrum is a great brand has better ingredients for the health of the Cichlid. Omega1 brand for Cichlids would be my second choice. Make sure pellet is small enough for the Cichlid to eat.
Certain foods won’t make the kok/hump grow more. It’s all genetics with these fish but that’s just IMO. Provide a good pellet with mix of veggie in it and cleans water and it’ll get that hump. Such as tlindsey has mentioned.
Thank you. I just make some search on this brand and they have Cichlasoma formula spacialize for this fish but it not available in US market. So only : thera, float, cichlid and probiotix, which one should I go with from begining ?
I buy in bulk so I try to get the best prices for the best food I can find without skimping on ingredients. The link below is what I use. It has good ingredients and all the fish mow it down, from convicts to flowerhorn. The link I believe may be for the bulk, but there are different options available as far as quantity. Check his store out if this isn't what you're looking for. He has many different varieties available. As far as growing the hump goes...what kno4te said, genetics. Get him a mirror and groom him to bring his hump out.
Fabulous fish. Only thing worries me is that bulging tummy already, watch how much you are feeding him. Assuming it's around 2-2.5 inches, from current head shape to me it seems like he would get a nice hump, we will have to wait and see.
My personal recommendation is to get northfin cichlid pellets and NLS algaemax (20% of diet).
Either way all northfin and NLS foods are top choices quality wise.
My personal recommendation is to get northfin cichlid pellets and NLS algaemax (20% of diet).
Either way all northfin and NLS foods are top choices quality wise.
Agreed, OP does have a nice looking FH there, he'll grow up to be a real stunner. I also agree with ya that OP need to feed a lil less food maybe even a lil less often. I feed my FH's 1x a day sometimes once every other day. It lets me know that they will always be hungry and if they aren't, that there is something that I need to do to the tank. Water change, meds, gravel vac, ect. Personally I feed hikari gold large floating pellets and whatever live food I happen to have available as treats, worms, minnows, guppies, baby snakes, baby frogs, frozen pinky mice, the list goes on lol. My fish feed on allot of different foods so that if I ever run out of one thing that they will always accept another without any fuss. Granted not saying OP has to follow what I say step by step I'm just saying what I do for my fish and the reasons behind it.
I think for a young fish like OP has, which has grown to not even 10% of vlume, 2x or even 3x feeding is better, total quantity causes overfeeding not frequency. Smaller fish have higher metabolism and needs to fed often.
I think live food might give a slight advantage but it's a hard to do thing. You can do it right as you have been doing it for a while, a new comer might try to jump and screw up things as he sees someone doing it but lacks the view of full picture. I think feeding a pellet like northfin/NLS would some out better than feeding mix of live and hikari.
Yeah I'll agree live food can be a bit tricky. Quarentining food is always a pain, feeding the food is a pain and even breeding the food can be a pain sometimes.