What and how do you feed your cichilds?

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Rickargentea

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May 21, 2012
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Hello everyone, Hope everyone is having a good day / Night. I’m a bit new with Cichilds. I currently own a Vieja argentea, a Nicaragua Cichlid and
a Paratilapia pollen (I understand the polleni is a Madagascar species). I was wondering what and how you all feed your Cichilds. Any specific brand you prefer and why? How about feeding live food or frozen food? I’m curios on what you guys use and how often you feed them. Of course if you guys can share what species you own, it would be great.

Thanks!

Ricardo
 
Great topic...I enjoy hearing about what others feed as well. I keep mostly SA cichlids and they all get fed pelleted staple diet twice a day of omega one floating cichlid. I also feed omega one veggie disks regularly to my solo male jack dempsey. I feed hikari frozen mysis shrimp once a week to everyone.


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cool, It’s always interesting knowing how others feed their cichilds.. You can learn a lot on how to maintain your healthy little devils. Thanks for answering, hope more members share with us the way they feed their cichilds.
 
I feed new life spectrum once a day. Buy the aappropriate sized pellets. Also remember hungry cichlids are healthy c
ichlids

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I feed NLS once/twice a day depending age of fish, and freeze dried blood worms and crickets just as treats. Seems to make them happy
 
I feed them a mix of Sera Tubifex, azoo 9 in 1 pellets,Tetra color, NLS Cichild formula and tetra spirulina flakes altogether.. As for live food, I feed them Artemia (Brine shrimp) and Daphnia. Feed them once a day. I feed them “the mix” on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Live food, Thursday and Sunday. I don’t feed them on Mondays. That’s my feeding routine.

Every once in a while I’ll throw in a little bit of Grand Sumo. It’s kinda hard getting it here in Mexico City sometimes. What do you guys think?
 
In nature V argentea are algae and detritus eaters, so they require vegetation in there diet, so a pellet with spirulina would help, and it would not hurt the nicaraguense or polleni either. Live foods would work, but none of the fish you have are piscivores, so feeder fish are not a good idea.
 
I don’t know if Artemia (Brine shrimp) and Daphnia would be consider feeder fish.. IMO Artemia and Daphnia really help bring out the colors of my cichilds.
 
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