Less greedy eaters

[jaws7777]

What are some of the less greedy eaters you guys have kept. Im trying to decide if i want to keep some sa/ca with polys in my next tank.

Im looking for fish that arent insane eaters. I have a pearsei who is worse than any oscar ive ever kept in regards to eating.

On the other hand my heterospilus is a perfect match eats his fill and is content with letting the polys eat theirs.

Considering aequidens and loiselli i've kept metae and it was fine so im pretty sure aequidens will be ok hows loiselli glutton or decent ?

Reason why im asking is the polys are slow to the food so aggressive feeders like pearsei make feeding difficult.

Also any suggestions you guys have on not so greedy eaters are welcomed

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Substratum sifting cichlids like satanoperca or thorichthys or A robertsoni may be the answer.
Not overly greedy fish that like to feed from the substrate.

 

[Frank Castle]

Substratum sifting cichlids like satanoperca or thorichthys or A robertsoni may be the answer.
Not overly greedy fish that like to feed from the substrate.

those are good ones, GT and Acaras have never been piggies in my collection, but all my Parachromis are hawgs. Port cichlids, all my Geophagus, Convicts, Jewels, all moderate eaters .....JDs are hit or miss IME, males are pigs, females not so much


Bad choices are Parachromis, Amphilophus, Herichthys, most (if not all) Vieja - my Synspilums are easily the hungriest fish I have

 

[duanes]

I agree with Stanzzzz7, the earth eaters of Astatheros, Thorichthys, and the geophagines all seem to prefer small pieces, and eat more slowly as opposed to gluttonizing.

Astatheros rostrum above, A robertson below

 

[jaws7777]

Never kept thorichtys or geos.

 

[xraycer]

Never kept geos.

Then you are missing out

 

[Woefulrelic]

Geos, severum, and fesitvum have been pretty normal eaters so far. They don't out compete my rays, not like the chocolates.

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Never kept thorichtys

Definitely missing out.

 

[neutrino]

I agree with much of the above and ime I'd add heros (severums) to the list (and their relatives, like angelfish, mesounauta, discus). I'd qualify that to say there's a difference between being competitive for food, which many, especially young, fish tend to be and being greedy eaters that tend to overfeed or tend to gobble up food before the other fish can get any. Also, since individuals in a particular species might vary (I've had some piggy discus), that's just my general experience.

 

[DMD123]

When your pearsei reaches adulthood it does slow down. Still greedy but nowhere near the first three years or so of its growth stage. At that stage they are pretty much eating machines! If you think the pearsei is bad you should see my red bay snook, even worse. So much so that I pretty much get hosed every time I open the lid to feed, lol.