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Offline Hari

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Cichlid food suggestions?
« on: March 21, 2016, 02:36:22 PM »
Hi all...  Any suggestions on what food is ideal for the following  cichlids? I hear that the xtreme aquatics cichlid peewee is good for all, but it has 38% protein.  I think the mbunas and tropheus need more vegetarian food. Let me know ur thoughts and any good brand names. Thanks.

 mbunas
Tropheus
 peacocks
 haps

Offline Marty

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Re: Cichlid food suggestions?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2016, 02:46:56 PM »
 I would avoid  feeding Tropheus pellets.   They have an extremely long digestive tract, and are susceptible to bloat .

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Re: Cichlid food suggestions?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2016, 04:14:44 PM »
For tropheus I feed Dainichi Veggie FX.  Will also be trying Northfin
http://www.dainichi.com/cichlid_food_veggie_fx.html


If you want to learn about food check out this site.
http://www.oscarfish.com/fish-food-analysis.html

Here is another good article to understand feeding the right food(article was for repashy, but you can apply it to other foods)
http://tedsfishroom.com/2012/07/22/repashy-super-green-why-it-is-important/