Food choice question

rourk89

rourk89

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I was just wondering if anyone else on here feeds cobalt flake food to their cichlids. I have been talking to several people and everyone says feed spectrum, and no one has heard of cobalt. I tired the spectrum pellets and my cichlids didn't really go for them like when I feed them flake food. So I feed them the cobalt cichlid formula with some omega one supercolor mixed into my big container and they get that at least every morning. and at night, they get either that again, or frozen/ live food. I am wondering if there is a better quality flake food as well as a different color enhancing flake food to mix into it?
 
What cichlids are talking about here?
 
I would feed them Omega One veggie flake along with any high quality Spirulina flake. I don't necessarily think there is anything wrong with flake, except that it is messier. You'll have better water quality with pellet foods, if you are of the normal 25-50% weekly every one to two weeks kind of fishkeeper. I also like how pellet foods reach fish at the bottom too, but that's because I keep inverts and snails in most all of my tanks.

Xtreme Aquatic Foods is a very palatable brand of pellet food, they have a cichlid formula. I agree, although NLS is supposed to be the very best for them, none of my fish like it as much. I've never tried their finicky fish formula, though.

I have fed Cobalt flake...I bought the smallest can of every kind they had when it first debuted (and Fosters & Smith had it at 25% off). All the fish liked it, but that's all I can say. I always feed a high quality, varied diet with dry, freeze dried/frozen and vegetable foods, so their colors are always good and they are never too fat or sluggish. I can tell you they especially liked the premium breeder flake :)

I think Cobalt is good stuff, but there is already a lot of good stuff out there...as you seem to already know.

Unfortunately inferior brands like Tetra and Wardley (this one especially is bottom of the barrel) will always massively dominate lesser known brands like theirs.
 
I use Captain Bob's S.O.S. Flake. It's high quality and color enhancing.
 
African are really more vegetarian then other cichlids. You will need to find food higher in plant matter for them.
 
Thanks for all the great info! I am thinking I am gonna try out a few of these for a month or so, and see if I notice a difference in color and activity.

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Peacocks are more carnivorous and like a higher protein diet. Feeding them mostly plant matter might cause long poop strings like livebearer freak's were displaying. Not a pretty sight.:D
 
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