Best food for cichlids?

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So I got my green Terror and Texas cichlid in my 55 and I'm wondering what kind of food to feed them. Right now I have frozen beef heart, blood worms, and brine Shrimp. Then for sry food I have hikari cichlid gold in the second biggest size. Also for live food I have some wax worms I feed to my box turtle so I think they could also eat that. Any additions I should know about or any secret food you guys use to get growth and color :) Any advice is helpful.


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I use Hikari Bio-gold and I am very happy with it. I switched from the regular gold and my fish colored up even more and had a large growth spurt. Now he is back on regular Hikari Gold because Bio-Gold doesn't come in a large enough size.
 

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Earthworms are excellent food.
 

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New Life Spectrum. IMO is the best prepared food on the market. I use it exclusively as my only prepared dry food. That and frozen foods..
 

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I, presonally, vary the diet..I use different flake food, pellets, bloodworms, etc.
 

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For my rams I use NLS, frozen bloodworms, frozen brineshrimp, live blackworms, occasionally some frozen mysis, they also sometimes take omega one shrimp pellets meant for some of my other bottom dwellers.
 
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