What bugs do you feed your cichlids?

[Mr Pleco]

My Uncle used to keep beehives and my oscars , cichlids and pacu grew like crazy on honey bee drones.

He used to come over with bags of dead drones and worker bees during the summer

 

[Dullamite]

My Jag's seem to like it all, I've even had the fry eating those small sugar ants. I've fed my jag's worms to moths, and they grub 'em literally. I havent seen any ill effects yet.

 

[coryjac0b]

What about roaches? When it starts getting really hot they will be plentiful in my area.

 

[MN Fish]

Throw whatever you find in there if your fish doesnt eat it then take it out. My jags eats whatever I throw in the tank and he is always well fed

 

[Larz]

Here in the southern US we get japanese beatles every year. My Jags, RD's and Buttikoferi love them. They will spit out the wings though!

 

[eatingleg4peanut]

Stinkbugs!!!

 

[VPBassist]

I feed my EBJD giant mealworms and nightcrawlers. I haven't tried crickets yet, that will be next time I'm at the LFS

 

[Cybercyde]

Whatever spiders I catch ( unless it is a wolf spider, then I keep them)

I truly wish I'd caught this one. I might have been stumbling to the bathroom one night when instinct stopped me cold. I'd spotted a wolf spider a solid 4" across sitting in the middle of my room on white carpet.

I spent a week trying to catch/kill it, the missus spent a week sleeping upstairs.

It was around long enough that we named it Jim - Even though it was a gravid female.

I sincerely believe it's the 100% reason we had no mice. It was that large.

When I sold cars, I used to keep a black widow at my desk. We'd feed it flies during the summer.

 

[Younglin]

What we call wolf spiders up here never get more than 2 inches.

 

[CClump]

Ive seen quite large Wolves down here. Few inches across and fast. Certainly large enough that my friends dovii started acting strange for a few days after eating one, They think he got bit while eating it.