He will eat soon you just need to make sure he knows YOUR the bringer of the food
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Prey of A.Labiatus
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He will eat soon you just need to make sure he knows YOUR the bringer of the food
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I guess your right but I still wanna watch how they hunt in the wild like with the suction from in between rocks cause I have a pile of them in my tank and he does this so why not watch him do it the natural way ahaha
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According to CRC, the diet of A. labitatus:
Feeding: Insects and their larvae are among the food taken by Amphilophus labiatus. Detritus found in the bottom is also part of their diet. Given the chance, they will also catch small fish every now and again.
http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery/species.php?id=166
Sounds like duplicating their natural diet will involve spreading a layer of detritus across the bottom of your tank...
Just feed quality pellets...skip feeding a couple of days per week...give occasional bugs or red wigglers once or so per week...do regular water changes...and you'll have healthy, happy fish.
Matt
Feeding: Insects and their larvae are among the food taken by Amphilophus labiatus. Detritus found in the bottom is also part of their diet. Given the chance, they will also catch small fish every now and again.
http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery/species.php?id=166
Sounds like duplicating their natural diet will involve spreading a layer of detritus across the bottom of your tank...
Just feed quality pellets...skip feeding a couple of days per week...give occasional bugs or red wigglers once or so per week...do regular water changes...and you'll have healthy, happy fish.
Matt
This guy is a wild caught Nicaraguan A. Labiatus. He really enjoys pellets such as omega one cichlid. I would recommend something like that in order to be sure you're giving the fish their full nutrition. His color has remained the same regardless of what brand of fish food I give him. Of course different lighting affects whether he looks more orange or more red. On the concept of live, wild food, I imagine it would be a challenge raising insect larvae. It would possibly require its own tank set up unless you want to run out of larvae very quickly. Attempting to simulate their native habitat is an intriguing idea though.
Thanks for sharing his lips went down quite a bit I'm gonna breed shrimp krill and snails for my guy actually my f1 looks just like yours ill get a pic so you can see him his lips are the same size as yours to
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They do look similar, he could almost be your devil's father. 
I don't know what his lips looked like when he was delivered to the U.S. He's around 4 yrs old so it has been awhile. I am guessing it has something to do with no longer needing to use the lips for specialized feeding, which leads to less stimulation. It's also possible that not all Labiatus have the super inflated lips in the wild. As you might recall, some Midas specimens have even been observed with enlarged lips. Amphilophus a fascinating group of cichlids.
I don't know what his lips looked like when he was delivered to the U.S. He's around 4 yrs old so it has been awhile. I am guessing it has something to do with no longer needing to use the lips for specialized feeding, which leads to less stimulation. It's also possible that not all Labiatus have the super inflated lips in the wild. As you might recall, some Midas specimens have even been observed with enlarged lips. Amphilophus a fascinating group of cichlids.They do look similar, he could almost be your devil's father.
He could be Jeff rapps devils father but not mine yeah I like look of big lips on them kinda why I want prey in the tank and the biotope sadly that's isn't a female or I would be offering to buy it my male killed his mate
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I think you'll be best with pellets and live treats. The likely eat here or there during the day, in the size space you have and given food source its not the same as the fish feeding very lightly over the say a 1/8 mile stretch of area. You likely should heed to the consensus here and make pellets a main stay and treat him with quality live stuff you might raise up.
