Severum eating plants?

[duanes]

As you can see by my video, I would often feed dandelions, and just rinse them off (but I also never use herbicides in my yard)..
But nutritious lettuce like romaine is good, ice burg lettuce is usually considered non-nutritious.
If you try something like zucchini, some species will only accept it if its blanched..
Below is another primarily vegetarian cichlid, (the older they get), Cincelichthys bocourti .

Above it is eating hair algae.
Below Dandelions

They could polish off a large dandelions leaves in moments.
This also help push other stuff thru the gut, helping prevent maladies like bloat.
Mine would also eat thawed peas, and even duckweed.

 

[duanes]

If you look at the mouth, and (if you can) the teeth of most cichlids, you will get a pretty good idea of the most of the things, they naturally eat, or at least where they search for food.

1st a predator/piscavore........................................2nd a snail eater.............................................................Substrate feeding insectivore

Insectivore, and other small prey living in a rocky substrate

Sand sifter...............................................................Detritus and algae eater.....................................Predator/piscavore.

Above and below omnivores that eat any, and everthything, and most cichlid will take advantage of everything

 

[neutrino]

If I tried to feed him lettuce or some plant like that would that work? If so what do I need to do to it to make it so he won’t get sick eating it.

Maybe. You never know what a particular individual will do exactly. I've had a few that mostly left tough leaved plants (anubias) alone and others that shredded them. I have a wild Brazil Heros, supposed to be notatus but isn't, that in some moods tries to dislodge, tear up, or push around just about anything that isn't nailed down or too heavy, which is unlike most I've kept-- but he doesn't try to eat artificial plants.

...If it doesn't work and he's actually ingesting any plastic, about the safest thing to do imo would be to replace artificial plants with driftwood, branches, rocks, etc. It's a different look but does replicate their natural habitat in some places.

Severum Cichlid Habitat Comparison - YouTube

 

[Americancichlidsaredabest]

Thank you guys!! I picked up some food with a lot more Spirulina and another type with algae and I haven’t see him try and eat the plants anymore.