What and how much does everyone feed???

[JRT8783]

Since I've started keeping cichlids, I've always wondered if I'm overfeeding, underfeeding, or in between. Figured it'd be nice for everyone to see everyone elses feeding routine since nutrition, along with water quality, is 1 of the most important things for our fish. So what does your feeding schedule look like? What size is your fish? what size pellet is used and how many do u feed?

Right now I got my 9.5" male jag on 3mm NLS thera+, 3mm NLS large fish formula, omega 1 large super color cichlid pellets, and hikari carnivore pellets. I'll usually just walk over to the tank throughout the day and drop 1 or 2 pellets in there at a time so I'd say on average he gets anywhere from 4-8 of these pellets total per day, more or less depending if I worked or had the day off. I skip Mondays since I feed a little more during the weekend and may start skipping Thursdays as well when he gets a little bigger. For a treat he gets frozen krill or frozen freshwater mysis once a week.

What do you all feed your fish???

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[Adamson]

With my centrals I feed them two to three times per week. Just throw in a bunch of massivore.
My Africans are fed everyday as long as I remember to!


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[Crazy mike]

All my tanks get a different schedule and it's as follows
90 gallon
-6.5 inch black belt
-5 inch midevil
-4 inch female salvini
-4 inch Texas mutt
-7 inch 4 line pim
-5 inch syno cat
-2x 5 inch African brown knives
Fed once a day either 6mm NLS Thera A jumbo fish formula or hikari cichlid gold or hikari cichlid both hikari are the mini size. They also get twice a week a mix of frozen hikari krill or spirulina brine shrimp. They get two cubes at a time either both krill or the brine shrimp or one of each. The pellet number being around 15 hikari or 10 or so NLS

125 gallon
13 inch male managuense
8-9 inch male Dempsey
6 inch female Dempsey
4.5 male firemouth
Hikari cichlid gold or hikari cichlid staple medium size every other day sometimes every two days. A total of around 20 pellets

29 gallon
Vieja mutt female 8 inches
6-7 NLS a day or 8-10 hikari pellets the mini size and once a week a sea weed sheet(San Francisco bay brand)
And that's my feeding schedule lol



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[festaedan]

too much
My breeding pair of electric blue rams, threadfin rainbow group, C.cuatepeque group, pair of black ocellaris clowns, anglefish, ect. get black worms and nls
The big boys get cut shrimp, krill, and nls

 

[moodleymike]

My pair of jags and black nastys get fed twice a day large amounts of massivore and cichlid flakes and a treat of prawns never feeders
my Flowerhorn gets fed large pellets and earthworms as treat
my texas pair gets spirulina flakes
my African tanks mixed veggies and spirulina flakes

 

[labiatus55]

I feed all my fish twice a day. Usually quite a lot. I just make sure to have good filtration and large water changes.

 

[virgil2090]

i usually skip 1 or 2 days feeding a week,unless i am growing out fish-young fish say 3 inches or smaller i feed those 2-3 times a day.i mix it up with veg,hikari,omega1 pellets.some freeze dried shrimp once in a while.i keep mostly CA,1 tank of SA

 

[tlindsey]

My tanks have different foods, as well as schedules.

180 gal.
4 Senegal bichir
3 Ornate bicher
1 Endlicheri bicher
1 delhezi bicher
4 Silver Dollar's
Feed every other day alternate with Algae wafer and bottom feeder tablets, massivore tablets, tilapia, earthworms .
55 gal.
1 grow out Silver Aro.
4 Red head Tapajos
4 Geo Red Hump(steindachneri)
Feed every day alternate with NLS pellets, micro algae pellets, frozen plankton, freeze dried mysis, freeze dried shrimp, broken carnivore sticks for Aro.
29 gal.
3 African Butterfly Fish
1 kribensis cichlid
Feed alternate with cricket's, freeze dried blood worms, freeze dried meal worms and NLS for the cichlid.
Overstocked 30 gal.
6 Hatched fish
5 Neons
4 Glow light tetra
3 Rasbora Het.
2 Albino Cory
3 Emerald Cory
2 Neon Stiphodon gobie
5 Blue Rams
Feed alternate with NLS small pellet, frozen mysis, tetra in flake, freeze dried blood worm, shrimp pellet, and live micro worms. Sorry forgot the 3 Chocolate Khuli loach.
10 gal.
1 pair fancy guppies, and some fry
5 very sm. Bristlenose (growout )
Feed every day with live micro worms, banana worms, crumbled tetra min flake, micro Alga pellet.

 

[jiant2520]

I feed the following fish a staple of Hikari gold sinking mini pellets twice a day, however the NLS Thera-A should be in any day now and I'm going to switch over and use that as my staple. I feed Massivore (broken into smaller pieces) and blood worms twice a week in place of the pellets. I make sure to take one day a week off from feeding too.

Midas 4"
Trimac 4"
Trimac 3"
Bocourti 4"
Jaguar 4"
GT 3.5"
GT 3"
Argentea X 2 3"
Amarillo X 3 3-4"
Salvini X 7 1-2"
Melenurus X 3 1.5-2"
Festae X 2 2.5"
Sun catfish 3"
White catfish (I think) 3"

They are in a 265g tank and I'm currently doing 50% water changes about twice a week.

 

[Reaper13]

I do different schedules with different foods.

8" Jag = Tilapia fillets cut into little pieces the size of his eye soaked in a little vitachem & I wrap them around a few NLS thera a or omega 1 1mm pellets (Picky sob). I feed about 4 per day 6 days a week. Change his water 50% twice a week and his parameters are 0 ammonia 0 nitrite 10ppm or lower nitrates. I'll feed whole silversides, earthworms, grasshoppers, etc as a replacement for his meal once every 2 weeks.

2x 3" Labiatus & 2x 1.5-2" cons = Omega 1 mini or nls thera a 1mm 2x per day I try to get them until their belly gets slightly slightly rounded, but it never works out. Basically a couple of sprinkles trying to spread it around evenly as possible. Water quality is exact same as the jag.

Dovii 12-13" (sold)= 3-4mm NLS pellets probably 6-8 pellets a day skipping 1-2 days. Water quality same as the above. Treats same as the Jag

I keep my fish on the hungry side & my temps at 80F (not beani's etc) with plenty of current.