What and how do you feed your cichilds?

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Anything Hikari.

To be honest with you, I feed everything live. Feeder convicts, worms, flies, crickets, spiders, and a lot of other insects. I feed my fish small amounts several times a day.

I own dovii's, grammodes, festae, istlanums, and salvini's.
 
I feed my fish 2-3 times a day. I just drop it in the aquarium and they go crazy for it. I would feed them live/frozen bloodworms, mysis shrimp, krill, spirulina enhanced brine shrimp, and roaches (only the kilifish eas it). I feed them the frozen foods 2-3 times a week. I alternate between the frozen stuff too. But they seem to prefer mysis shrimp a lot.


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Let's see, I have Green Terrors and I feed them(pair) NLS(Jumbo fish formula and thera A+), Omega One shrimp pellets, Hikari Cichlid Bio-Gold+, Spirulina pellets, algae wafers, and occasional feeders. I'm starting to feed them some frozen and freeze dried food but no luck so far. I like to feed them a couple of hours after/before lights turn on/off. I drop in food little by little as they eat rather than dumping in a huge amount at once, which usually takes 2-3 minutes.

Take a look at this thread, I think you'll find it useful: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?432239-What-do-you-feed-your-CA-SA-cichlids
 
I have trimacs, umbees and HRPs.

I give them NLS veggie flakes in the mornings and a mix of NLS pellets and Xtreme pellets in the evenings.

Once or twice a week, I will throw in bloodworms or frozen krill.

All my stock are juvies, with the laregest at 3.5".

I tend to feed more than I should. That being said, I have plenty of filtration and do 80% water changes - twice a week.







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For my 12 inch dovii I feed him hikari cichlid gold pellets once a day, and the blood worms and krill once a week as well.

For my Oscar tank I feed cichlid gold 2 times a day since thy are much smaller and blood worms and krill once a week.

Malawis I feed a protein flake 2 times a day.

I don't feed on Saturdays. When I buy steak, fish, or shrimp I'll toss some of the scraps in to the dovii or Oscar as well.


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Wow, a lot of options, a lot of ideas... Hope more people from the forum share their feeding routines.
I do see a couple of brands mentioned many times, NLS and Hikari, mostly. I use NLS but have never tried Hikar. Is it really that good?
 
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