This food safe for my cichlids?

[Sinister-Kisses]

I am FULL of questions today lol.

So, with the ordering of pearsei and argentea today, I will need to find new homes for my goldfish as I'll need the tank they are in. However, I just realized I very recently ordered a new, large tub of Repashy Super Gold - meant for goldfish and koi - and that **** ain't cheap. Wondering if there's any reason I can't feed it to my CA cichlids? Looking at the ingredients, I don't see anything I'd be concerned about, but thought I'd get other opinions. This is NOT a food they eat/would eat daily. I mix up the foods they eat and they never get the same food 2 days in a row...unlikely they even get the same food 2 days in a given week. I rotate between NLS Ultra Red, Northfin Cichlid, "regular" NLS, Northfin Krill Gold, Northfin Veggie, Bug Bites, and Respashy Grub Pie with Redrum mixed in. Plus every Saturday is a no-feed day. So Super Gold would be added into the rotation and be fed maybe once per week at most.

Any reason I shouldn't?

 

[Deadeye]

I feed repashys grub pie to my cichlids - they love it. Haven’t fed in a while though.
That stuff should good.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

I've never kept cichlids, but I have seen a lot of topics about their diet, based on which I would say to only feed that, Krill Gold, Grub Pie, Bug Bites, and any other food high in animal protein very sparingly to the cichlid species in question.
duanes was who I had seen these topics from, I believe they can tell you some more with regards to said amount of animal protein for your species.

 

[Deadeye]

All the main ingredients are a common part of cichlid diet. I noticed dandelion, which duanes has fed to his acara.

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

All the main ingredients are a common part of cichlid diet. I noticed dandelion, which duanes has fed to his acara.

That caught my eye as well as the one thing "different" from most of my cichlid foods, but I don't think it'd be an issue. But this is why I ask for others to weigh in lol.

 

[stiker]

The diet of C. pearsei in the wild is almost entirely comprised of vegetable matter. I would feed a high quality spiralina based food for them. New life spectrum algaemax would be an example of a good pellet for them.

My group of C. bocourti only get spiralina based pellets with the occasional fresh veggies/ plant matter.

 

[Rocksor]

Repashy Super Gold -is fine if your plan is to feed once a week.

 

[duanes]

I have also fed dandelion pulled straight from the yard for pearsei, bocourti, Etroplus suratensis, and other primarily vegetarian cichlids(which pearsei are)
As rocksor said, the Repashy would be a good food fed more and more sparingly as they age (fine when juvies).
Their diet change with age.
Because pearsei are primarily leaf and fallen fruit eaters as adults in nature (aquatic, and terrestrial), heavy higher protein diets can mess up their long digestive tract https://hosting.photobucket.com/alb...b25c45c.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/i97/dstuer/Paratilapia/bocourti/dsndelion/.highres/IMG_0078_zpsad8e5057.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

The above X-ray is from one of one of my veterinary text books of a pearsei, singled out because of the digestive tract anomalies/blockages, that occur when fed a too high in protein diet.
Just like humans these aquatic cattle need fiber.
My bocourti would even eat Papyrus plants, that are basically like eating paper.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/alb...4384ab3.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds
They ate the papyrus in the pick above to nubs.
Below here it is prior to the eating it.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/i97/dstuer/Paratilapia/new%20tank/.highres/144_zps8a625c08.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

The pearsei don't have to be fed this food, I will feed them appropriately...the point was just that I have to sell the goldfish to make room for the new fish I ordered. I'm thinking more along the lines of my red texas and midas potentially eating the Super Gold as part of the varied diet...just so it isn't wasted.