What and when are you feeding your Malagasies?

[LS2012]

My Menarambo, Kieneri and Maculatus will eat anything, at anytime. They're mostly fed NLS pellets and bs or veggie flakes. My Paratilapia will ONLY eat shrimp pellets and flakes if its between dusk and dawn, but mostly late at night. My Tarantsy adults will eat shrimp or NLS pellets and flakes in the morning or late at night. Tarantsy juvies eat anything, anytime.

They'll occasionally eat a seaweed strip from a clip. Other than these foods they're not interested in much else. What else can/should they eat?

Thanks!

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[koltsixx]

As you know I'm just getting into these guys so I'll give you my limited experience thus far. So far neither my Menarambo nor Tarantsy have taken to pellets but they are eating Brine Shrimp Flakes with much gusto. Looking forward to hearing what everyone else feeds their Malagasies so I can get more info on these cool fish and provide them a sufficiently varied diet.

 

[duanes]

All my fish, whether Malagasy or not, get HBH supersoft spirulina and shrimp pellets, and a Koi vitamin enriched/color enhancing pellet as staples, and I usually feed the adult fish once per day, so they are always very ready to eat by the time I get to them.
I find I get snails building up on all overflow screens, they are shaken off in the Paretroplus tank, where they are greedily taken.
And because I have bocourti (primarily vegetarians) in with the Paretroplus, anytime salad greens get a bit withered, they end up in the tank for the bocourti, and the Paretroplus nibble on them. The bocourti also greedily take duckweed, and the Paretroplus seem to follow suit, but with less gusto than the Centrals.
In summer they also eat aquatic, and terrestrial insects, and wax worms and red wrigglers when I find them.

 

[LS2012]

All my fish, whether Malagasy or not, get HBH supersoft spirulina and shrimp pellets, and a Koi vitamin enriched/color enhancing pellet as staples, and I usually feed the adult fish once per day, so they are always very ready to eat by the time I get to them.
I find I get snails building up on all overflow screens, they are shaken off in the Paretroplus tank, where they are greedily taken.
And because I have bocourti (primarily vegetarians) in with the Paretroplus, anytime salad greens get a bit withered, they end up in the tank for the bocourti, and the Paretroplus nibble on them. The bocourti also greedily take duckweed, and the Paretroplus seem to follow suit, but with less gusto than the Centrals.
In summer they also eat aquatic, and terrestrial insects, and wax worms and red wrigglers when I find them.

Thanks Duane,
Great info. My Paretroplus decimate any plants in their tanks. Even the young Menarambo will eat plants. How often are you feeding the Tarantsy juvies?

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[richkid]

My paratilapia eats hikari pellets flakes brocolli pretty much whatever I throw in the tank whenever. He's also taken to becoming quite the trouble maker as well.



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[duanes]

The juvie tarantsy, are a different story, as are any juvie fish. They get fed small amounts every time I walk in the room.

 

[Skurj]

My Paratilapia eats anything any time.. tho they are under 2" in length, so far they have eaten, NLS grow, NLS 1mm cichlid, Omega 1 cichlid super colour, nutrafin max flakes, spirulina flakes, wardley cichlid flakes

I have 3 polleni in a 20g, with 4 Cubans, 1 mayan and a spotted Raphael (all less than 2") and one of the polleni is the dominant fish, never seen such a small fish eat so much.. The Raphael and likely the dominant polleni will be going in the 180g currently in build phase.. the rest will be going back to lfs I think..

 

[LS2012]

Thanks for all the info!!

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[LS2012]

The juvie tarantsy, are a different story, as are any juvie fish. They get fed small amounts every time I walk in the room.

Thanks Duane, looks like they're doing really well. Great coloration!

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[ciclasoman]

In my opinion, Malagasy fish are no different than other cichlids and so general purpose foods work well. More importantly is having sand to allow them to search for food and maybe ingest some of it too. Snails are nice but only if you grow your own or risk dangerous parasites.