What kind of diets are you feeding your flowerhorns? Looking at well balanced, color, pearling, head growth...what have been some of your experiences?
Well balanced diets?
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To start with read this very recent thread ... http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=371669 ... where there is a huge amount of great info and discussion.
Basic principles for flowerhorns are that they are basically amphilophus-type omnivorous foraging cichlids in their body type and dietary needs. So they need some veg matter in their diet. THey obviously alos need reasonable amounts of protein and essential vitamins in the diet, but not too much fat.
Whether you choose to supply them with this with one or more pellet type or by a mixture of foods, of your own concoction is your own decision.
Personally, I am tending to feed high quality pellets as a staple diet (NLS, Hikari, Ocean Nutrition etc), with occasional treats of bloodworm or prawn. I would also feed shelled peas, but all my fish reject them.
I am highly skeptical of these so-called flowerhorn super-foods that claim all sorts of amazing effects on kok growth and colour. A flowerhorn is essentially no different to any other colourful cichlid. All they need is a decent, balanced diet with all the basic nutrients and appropriate trace minerals and vitamins etc. if they get these, then the rest is down to genetics mainly (although colour and kok growth is also highly affected by the environment that the FH lives in).
I have one really kokky FH, and one really, really pearly FH. They both eat the same food and live in almost identical environments. The excellence in their own particular feature is down to genetics not food.
Basic principles for flowerhorns are that they are basically amphilophus-type omnivorous foraging cichlids in their body type and dietary needs. So they need some veg matter in their diet. THey obviously alos need reasonable amounts of protein and essential vitamins in the diet, but not too much fat.
Whether you choose to supply them with this with one or more pellet type or by a mixture of foods, of your own concoction is your own decision.
Personally, I am tending to feed high quality pellets as a staple diet (NLS, Hikari, Ocean Nutrition etc), with occasional treats of bloodworm or prawn. I would also feed shelled peas, but all my fish reject them.
I am highly skeptical of these so-called flowerhorn super-foods that claim all sorts of amazing effects on kok growth and colour. A flowerhorn is essentially no different to any other colourful cichlid. All they need is a decent, balanced diet with all the basic nutrients and appropriate trace minerals and vitamins etc. if they get these, then the rest is down to genetics mainly (although colour and kok growth is also highly affected by the environment that the FH lives in).
I have one really kokky FH, and one really, really pearly FH. They both eat the same food and live in almost identical environments. The excellence in their own particular feature is down to genetics not food.
i have my own schedule with my fhs' food
i use sera flowerhorn Pellet ,sera american cichlid pellet,sera arawana,sera blood parrot pellet,tetra min flakes,tetra discus pellets ,shrimp,bloodworm,sera spirulina algae tabs ,and a home made mixture some times i use artemia they like it so much and some times i use sera and tetra pond they like it so much ..
i tried to give them peas but they always reject it
until now i never use a live feeder -except when i use my convect fry as a live food
just because i have no place for them BTW i have a couple of convect male and a female about 2 cm live with my fH even my flowerhorn protect them when i try to move them -
i use sera flowerhorn Pellet ,sera american cichlid pellet,sera arawana,sera blood parrot pellet,tetra min flakes,tetra discus pellets ,shrimp,bloodworm,sera spirulina algae tabs ,and a home made mixture some times i use artemia they like it so much and some times i use sera and tetra pond they like it so much ..
i tried to give them peas but they always reject it
until now i never use a live feeder -except when i use my convect fry as a live food
just because i have no place for them BTW i have a couple of convect male and a female about 2 cm live with my fH even my flowerhorn protect them when i try to move them -