texas/carpintis Diet info please..

[AlBiNo ReD oScAr]

what is the ideal diet for a texas/carpinte cichlid, i have been feeding my 3-4" one NLS sinking pellets, he also clears up after my 6"tiger oscar (i feed him hikari cichlid gold and cichlid sticks)

what else or what should i be feeding him??

thanks

sam

 

[thefishguy7]

feed him whatever you'd fed any other cichlid.

Quarantined feeders
Cichlid Pellets
Earth worms
Krill
Various types of fish fillet
Crustaceans

The list goes on and on...

 

[AlBiNo ReD oScAr]

i done a google search on carpinte before i made this thread and they said about peas lettuce spinach and other vegetarian foods.

are these needed?

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

i have been told they need some vegetation in there diet too.

 

[thefishguy7]

mine get some algae disks or some vegetarian pellets, but they'd never toch lettuce or peas...

 

[bigspizz]

I use Omega one veggie pellets to get my veggies into my fish

 

[kscichlidfan]

I use Hikari's cichlid excel (the one they and market toward african cichlids) and my fish dont have any problems eating that and the gold pellets. I also use NLS sinkin pellets.

 

[geobal]

mine like to eat anything they are hogs. I think just a varied diet would be good for them. I have read people keeping texas to old age and large sizes on just goldfish food.

 

[scubasteve06]

My fish get a mix of lettuce, peas and market shrimp blended and frozen in an ice tray. As a treat