Diet for Yellow Labs

[Steven]

Im still confused as to what to feed my Yellow Labs. I had just received 5 yellow labs from an online source and they currently in their bags in my tanks adjusting to my temps.

Of couse they say you shouldnt feed fish right away due to the stress they have had.

Whats a good diet for Yellow Labs. All I was going to feed them were peas and romain lettuce, but of course that isent the greatest diet in the world to be fed all the time to Yellow Labs. I have some pellet food called HBH African Cichlid ATTACK but with a protein percentage of 43%, thats awful high in my opinion and with that along with stress can sometimes cause Malawi blout. This is my first time keeping cichlids and am clueless. Whats a good varied diet?

Thanks

Steve

 

[JSchmidt]

Fresh veggies are good - mine love zuchinni.

For prepared foods, you are on the right track. Lower protein and lower fat content are generally better for mbuna, although yellow labs are less prone to bloat, IME.

Some foods I've fed with good success:
Hikari algae wafers
Hikari cichlid Excel (these I usually premoisten)
Tetra Cichlid Sticks (formerly DoroMin)

I've fed these to my labs with good effect. And remember, a varied diet is best.

Good luck,
Jim

 

[hanif]

feeding yellow labs

ive kept yellow labs for about 2 years now, and id say the best types of food to feed them, would be a cichlid pellit food, algae flakes and then as a treat feed live blood worms or brime shrimp once or twice a week, if you can get live food then you will be able to pick up freeze dried worms and shrimp from LFS this will help improve colour and growth and your fish will look a lot happy for it. yellow labs in the wild are insectivores, so they need a higher protein diet than other cichlids thats why they are less proun to bloat. anyway good luck hope all goes well.