Anyone ever fed fresh shirmp to African cichlids

Mav,
Your Frontosas would definately benefit from feeding them shrimp! They are carnivores by nature and spend their lives searching for small fish. If they are big enough to eat whole or half shrimp, you can probably selectively feed them without any problems. Personally, I would avoid trying to give them feeders, as you run the risk of winding up with disease-laden fish that will make yours sick in turn. Frozen shrimp, krill, silversides, and the like will be great supplemental food to what they're already eating. Calvus are predatory as well and will benefit from fish flesh as well. I would avoid feeding your smaller tangs such as julis, lamps, and the like fish. They can eat it in small amounts, but it can bind in their guts and cause problems. I would not recommend feeding Tropheus fish either. They will bind up tight and die.

Shrimp is a great food. Anything thats carnivorous can benefit from being fed it. Its also a natural color enhancer (for reds). I feed it to many of my fish, especially the discus. As fishseller said though, only feed it to carnivorous fish, herbivores will have digestive problems if they are fed it.

NatakuTseng said:

Shrimp is a great food. Anything thats carnivorous can benefit from being fed it. Its also a natural color enhancer (for reds). I feed it to many of my fish, especially the discus. As fishseller said though, only feed it to carnivorous fish, herbivores will have digestive problems if they are fed it.

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he beat me to it.....but yeah its a GREAT natural color enhancer. I would add it to your feeding schedule about once a week. Its Great for colors I like using it just havent boughten any in a while.