New To MFK, JD Food Question

[Sarah88]

how big is the JD? i had plants in my tank with mine since he was small along with other aggressive cichlids and other from the occasional uprooting they ignore them but maybe im just lucky. and yeah mine liked the occasional algae wafer as well i just break them up once a week to add some veggies to my cichlids' diet

 

[thedarkone]

Yeh, I think i'll build a worm box to keep and raise worms in the garage for food. I think i'll also just start tossing veggies in there to see what he likes.
The one other concern is the large Anubias i have planted in the aquarium. I know cichlids like to dig, but this thing is well rooted and roots are under large rocks to anchor it. I've also read that JD's will eat plants, do you think the anubias will make it? It's been in that tank for 6 years and has gotten really big and provides a lot of cover.

It's hard to say weather he will leave your Anubias alone or not, but the chances are stacked against you. Most JDs will at least uproot plants if not eat them as well. My female usually eats on the plants until she gets bored with them and then uproots them.

Also it doesn't matter how well rooted you anubias is, if he really wants to uproot it he eventually will. JDs don't give up very easily and often become very stubborn and determined.

 

[Gatorxxx420]

It's hard to say weather he will leave your Anubias alone or not, but the chances are stacked against you. Most JDs will at least uproot plants if not eat them as well. My female usually eats on the plants until she gets bored with them and then uproots them.

Also it doesn't matter how well rooted you anubias is, if he really wants to uproot it he eventually will. JDs don't give up very easily and often become very stubborn and determined.

Stubborn can be an understatement. They're pretty funny sometimes with their moods.

I feed mine TetraCOLOR flakes, frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp with spirulina, freeze dried tubifex worms, peas and now that they're bigger I'm gonna try some lettuce with them and some zuchinni slices. Mine like freeze dried bloodworms as well and freeze dried Krill over frozen Krill.

 

[Burto]

I've fed mine a wide variety of food in the past; cheap pellets, NLS, various flake, algae wafers, earth worms, guppies, and a cricket or two most days.
At the moment I'm feeding him Omega One medium cichlid pellets pretty much exclusively, and he seems as healthy, colourful and active as he's ever been.

 

[thedarkone]

I've fed mine a wide variety of food in the past; cheap pellets, NLS, various flake, algae wafers, earth worms, guppies, and a cricket or two most days.
At the moment I'm feeding him Omega One medium cichlid pellets pretty much exclusively, and he seems as healthy, colourful and active as he's ever been.

Yeah Omega One cichlid pellets are pretty awesome, I feed them to all my fish.

 

[VTHokie]

I'd looked at Omega as well, and will probably cycle them in with the Hikari as I finish off a bag of food. Right now Bruiser is about 4 inches tip to tail. Very healthy. Won't stay still long enough for a picture though. At least not when i've tried the cell phone camera. I'll have to get out the real camera and snap some photos.

 

[VTHokie]

Here is a pic of his home. He's in the bottom left, but hard to see due to motion blur. I'll get some better pics of him later.