Best food for mbuna's?

BamaPits said:
I feed mine chopped beef heart as a staple. Sometimes I purchase a full cow liver soaked in blood and dump it in my malawi tanks. They love it.
Click to expand...

LOL sounds like a recipe for bloat if ever i heard one:eek3:
 
steve p said:
LOL sounds like a recipe for bloat if ever i heard one:eek3:
Click to expand...

Yea I'm just messing around. Right now I feed mine Nutrafin Max. They seem to like it a lot.
 
there is this new food from tetra these crisp like circles with concentrate of spirulina my mbunas seem to love it!
 
fgump said:
My little mbuna's like the seaweed salad. One of my bumblee cichlids has recently stopped eating. So I've been trying different foods, and the seaweed salad is the only thing it'll eat. And since I've introduced that, my other fish have stopped eating the other foods also!

None of pet stores around here sell New Life Spectrum, so I haven't been able to try that yet. Anybody know of a good place to order it online?

Also, why is the first ingredient in most of the 'veggie' foods fish meal? I've only found one food, Omega One, at my local pet stores where the first ingredient isn't an animal product. And half of my fish are strictly herbivores!
Click to expand...

i feed mine exclusively NLS Cichlid Formula and Dainichi Veggie FX. THE BEST.

you can get some here for cheap. 500grams of nls for $11

http://www.freewebs.com/thefishroom/foods.htm
 
I just checked my foods, and the first ingredient is fish meal on all of them. So, since my mbuna are herbivores, this is incorrect and I should get a spirulina based food, but I have a mixed tank with haps, which are primarily carnivores/piscivores, so fish meal based food should be perfect for them? I guess i could try a sinking spirulina pellet, and a floating fish meal pellet, but the mbuna still like fish meal, it's just not good for them. Any advice??????
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
AquariaCentral.com
Top Bottom