What do you feed your mbuna

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Bad or off colored babies. I've got Sarassa's and Shibunkin's w/ a few regular orange comets. I try to remove any that are totally orange or deformed.
 
Frozen: Bloodworms, Mysis Shrimp, and Formula 2.
Dry: Cichlid Gold pellets, TopFin Cihlid pellets, Cichlid Attack sinking pellets, Krill, lettuce, and Cichlid Flakes.
 
I do a mix that my local cichlid dealer makes me. If friends are over and want to see all the fish in their glory, then I will throw in some frozen brine shrimp and watch them go nuts.
 
tarheels910;1048559; said:
Frozen: Bloodworms, Mysis Shrimp, and Formula 2.
Dry: Cichlid Gold pellets, TopFin Cihlid pellets, Cichlid Attack sinking pellets, Krill, lettuce, and Cichlid Flakes.

watch out for the protein... double with having a trophus... mbuna are veggies... they have elongated intestines and too much protein can be a problem... some is good... but the blood worms worry me...
 
mike dunagan;1049714; said:
watch out for the protein... double with having a trophus... mbuna are veggies... they have elongated intestines and too much protein can be a problem... some is good... but the blood worms worry me...
Thanks for being concerned, but I only give them 1 cube of each a week. Its just enough protein for their diet.
Also I dont have a tanganyikan tropheus. I actually have a Pseudotropheus tropheops. Its a mbuna from lake malawi.
 
why_spyder;1051386; said:
What variant of tropheops do you have?
Looks to be a mbenji yellow right now. Still a little young (about 2 inches) for final specification.
 
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