What is the absolute best diet staple?

[tcarswell]

I have 5 small African cichlids about 2-3" and I am wondering what their main diet staple should be and if so what type.

Thanks guys ,
Tcarswell

 

[random fish guy]

I like the cichlid bio gold, floating type

 

[tcarswell]

I like the cichlid bio gold, floating type

Wheres the best place to get it ? Will my little labs be able to eat it?

 

[Cichlidsanders]

I get mine from Petco but I get the sinking type.

My littlest lab (1.5") eats them just fine. He holds it in his lips till its soft enough to break up and eat.

I also feed them algae disks (Broken up) and the occasional frozen blood worms

 

[tcarswell]

I get mine from Petco but I get the sinking type.

My littlest lab (1.5") eats them just fine. He holds it in his lips till its soft enough to break up and eat.

I also feed them algae disks (Broken up) and the occasional frozen blood worms

Nice I picked up 5 assorted African cichlids one is a lab. They all just ate after being in the tank 6 hours or so. They are awesome very colorful almost salt water like.

 

[Cichlidsanders]

Nice I picked up 5 assorted African cichlids one is a lab. They all just ate after being in the tank 6 hours or so. They are awesome very colorful almost salt water like.

Thats why I love Cichlids they are about the closest you can get to saltwater but without the cost.


I have 4 Kenyi (One is a male and he is starting to turn yellow)
2 Electric Yellow labs
and one albino red top zebra.

Much more colorful than any other FW/BW fish I have seen

 

[tcarswell]

Thats why I love Cichlids they are about the closest you can get to saltwater but without the cost.


I have 4 Kenyi (One is a male and he is starting to turn yellow)
2 Electric Yellow labs
and one albino red top zebra.

Much more colorful than any other FW/BW fish I have seen

I got two of those guys in your avatar they are cool. Im not sure the names of them all yet I used to collect the larger south american cichlids and some other random ones (Jack dempsey , oscars ,texas, Red devils ,midas and red snooks . These are my first African cichlids in a species tank and my first peaceful tank. They are fun to watch cant wait to have a tank full of them. I got them a nice log and a ton of lava rock stacked around like a few big caves and a bunch of plants. They are happy

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

I'd use NLS as the staple for african cichlids

 

[bitteraspects]

between hikari bio gold and a good dainichi pellet (id suggest ultima) you will have a nice round diet

 

[mike dunagan]

I prefer NLS my self.