New Fish...ID

[SoDakJeep]

alright well i will cut back on feeding them meat. I try vegies all the time and they will usually eat it. I feed them tetra brand tropical flake and cichlid sticks. I only had them for a week so far but have been experimenting with green beans both string and chopped. They love the beens and also recently tried a cucumber slice but they didn't seem to like that. What other veggies should i try?

What if I were to give them flake one day, chiclid sticks the next, shrimp, veggies, dont feed them the next and repeat?

Would that be alright I usually only feed them about one ghost shrimp per fish or so?

 

[MoFish78]

Yes like that but also some have the stripes going the other way. up and down across there body instead of head to tail.

you might be talking about this... an elongatus.

or my favorite....i think an elongatus chewere

another nice blue to have...

she's camera shy...

 

[Cichlidsanders]

alright well i will cut back on feeding them meat. I try vegies all the time and they will usually eat it. I feed them tetra brand tropical flake and cichlid sticks. I only had them for a week so far but have been experimenting with green beans both string and chopped. They love the beens and also recently tried a cucumber slice but they didn't seem to like that. What other veggies should i try?

What if I were to give them flake one day, chiclid sticks the next, shrimp, veggies, dont feed them the next and repeat?

Would that be alright I usually only feed them about one ghost shrimp per fish or so?

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The guy at my LFS told me to feed them Romain lettuce. I clipped some with a old style clothes pin and let it float around when I came back an hour later most of it was gone!

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I do cycle what I feed them day to day.
(I.e. pellets one day, flakes the next, veggies the next, fast on sunday, ect. ect. and repeat!)
I think it keeps them from getting too used to one type of food and rejecting another!