what food to feed?

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Slim2634

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i was wondering what food to feed firemouths, convicts, festivums, and severums? Like brand and what form of food (flake or pellets). They will all be small when i buy them probably no bigger than 2 inches.
 
Omega one and hikari is are good brands. You can feed what ever you want. I always feed pellets cause I find flake to be messy and most ends up in the filter with small fish.
 
that does make sense, but how much do i feed? like if they dont eat some do they just sink and they eat them later? or will the plecos take care of them?
 
Most pellets float, unless you buy sinking. Just feed a little and gradually work up to what they can eat. Also since they float, you pleco will learn to come up to the surface to eat them.
 
Most pellets float, unless you buy sinking. Just feed a little and gradually work up to what they can eat. Also since they float, you pleco will learn to come up to the surface to eat them.
which type of hikari cichlid pellet do you reccommend? i wont be able to get it until i get my fish because im not sure which store im getting them from, i want to get them from the local aquarium store, they are only aquariums and i heard they have a huge selection of cichlids. i want to get them as small as possible so i can watch them grow and that all the cichlids grow together and hopefully they will be used to each other.
 
I would go with Omega1, HBH, or Hikari cichlid pellets.
 
I would go with Omega1, HBH, or Hikari cichlid pellets.
yea im gonna go with hikari because the local petsmart sells them and omega1 but i have heard a lot of good things about hikari, but which kind should i get? like cichlid staple, cichlid gold, or cichlid bio gold?
 
I've had better luck with Omega1 bringing out colors. Its made out of better stuff too IMO.
I dont buy any other kind anymore.


If you are going to go with Hikari, go with the Hikari gold.
 
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