Best food for cichlids?

[reflexhunter]

Start a red worm farm, it's relatively cheap to get a indoor red worm farm set up and you can buy your worms from uncle johns worm farm, use your left over fruits and veggies scraps for food and you are good to go. Just keep it in a cool place in your house, I keep mine under one of my tanks, you will have thousands of worms in no time and the fish will love them.

I also started a meal worm farm in a 5 gal aquarium and like that I can feed them left over flake food, and such. What the worms eat your fish will eat thru them.

 

[real]

Thanks for all the advice. I have never heard of having a red worm farm


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[reflexhunter]

There are cheaper ones but this is what I found on eBay, I think I bought mine for 70 bucks.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Tray-Stac...947?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2318c7fce3

You can buy the worms here.

http://unclejimswormfarm.com/index.php/Live-Worms/View-all-products.html

 

[reflexhunter]

I never really bought into brand name food comparisons, always thought if The ingredients were acceptable then I was good, so kens food flakes and specialty foods ie golden pearls and decap bbs are a main staple of my fishes diet.

Here a couple months back a member of our local forum was down sizing and gave me 4 quart size containers of nls and hierarchy gold pellets, since feeding these to my fish some of which really devoure it and some don't, my hequi, and similis have both spawned with at least two females each, and my cyps are the most vibrant blue and yellow I have ever seen, even my dominant female is super colorful.

So I am a believer in these two types of foods, kens flakes and pearls will still be a main staple, but I will always have a mixture of these two pellet type foods in my feeding regime.

 

[real]

Well I tried the wax worms and boy did they suck it down not even chewing. Just head first. I think they liked it though.

Also how often should I feed. I doing twice a day now but they always beg when I come around.


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[reflexhunter]

I feed mine live food 1-2 a week if that's what you are asking?