What prepared veggies do Mbuna love?

[CWO4GUNNER]

Good point about the animal protein Im really cutting back now to once a week max. What really surprised me was reading the labels of some so called high vegetarian fish foods how high the protine was also like 36%, I maen that is higher then cat food which must be a high protein diet.

I may be wrong but Im beginning to believe that what I was feeding them in its natural state was no worse then some of these precessed packaged fish foods designed for cichlids. Maybe Ill start using my food processor to make some fresh high veggie-low meat combination mixes in some sort of binder (gelatin) that I can freeze in tiny ice cube trays and store up. This way when they will eat the seemingly meaty tasting treat it will be mostly vegetable but all natural without all the precessed fillers.

I think I will take a pass on the rice and kimchy though LOL.

 

[platytudes]

I wish that cat food were a high protein food! It should be, and the "health food store" equivalent of pet stores (or merely aisle(s) in regular pet stores) do have high protein cat food, but if you look at even supposedly "premium" brands of cat food like Iams and Purina ONE, corn is high on the list, if not the first ingredient. Most prepared dry cat/dog food is very high in carbs, which is completely unnatural for them. Unfortunately in this country we produce an abundance of corn and soy, and much of the excess is made into pet food. If we didn't use these fillers I imagine we would be paying triple and quadruple for our dry cat/dog food, which already seems pretty expensive to most of us. Still, the pet food industry is a racket, as you've begun to conclude!

The recipe you're after sounds a lot like this:
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/food_recipes.php
Take a look, some people feed ESM exclusively to their mbuna. It's a little too rich for my taste. I'd intersperse feeding it with some veggie flake and Spirulina flake...

Oh, and some New Life Spectrum, of course!

 

[CWO4GUNNER]

Well didn't mean to be off topic but is so happends that both my Bombay cats were getting sick from the corn and I have switched to a dry food that claims no soy, so corn, wheat. Nothing but fish, lamb and chicken and now my cats are so healthy. I also grind it and mix it with RO when I feed it to prevent urinary infections due to lack of water in dry foods. I have them both trained to go on walks with me un-leashed using a series is hiss commands, they never run off and come running when I give the danger hiss.

 

[Michwol42795]

Thanks for the recipe on that food platydudes! I will definitely try it! By the way, I feed peas, yellow squash, zucchini, broccoli, and carrots to my fish and they love it. I've started to boil my zucchini and yellow squash with garlic, makes the fish enjoy it even more. You should try it, it really helps to attract the fish in my experience. Off topic but that cat food sounds great, where'd you get it? I especially like the wheat free part because I'm allergic to gluten and I'd love for my cats to be on a gluten free diet too, lol.

 

[CWO4GUNNER]

Thanks for the recipe on that food platydudes! I will definitely try it! By the way, I feed peas, yellow squash, zucchini, broccoli, and carrots to my fish and they love it. I've started to boil my zucchini and yellow squash with garlic, makes the fish enjoy it even more. You should try it, it really helps to attract the fish in my experience. Off topic but that cat food sounds great, where'd you get it? I especially like the wheat free part because I'm allergic to gluten and I'd love for my cats to be on a gluten free diet too, lol.

VetSmart (slang)

 

[Michwol42795]

Like at PetSmart?

 

[Pittbull]

Glad i am not the only one who does Hiss commands for my cats hehehe my pastel calico knows what i mean.. one hiss is a warning, 2 hisses means i am ready to get the spray bottle, 3 hisses someone is getting wet and my cats understand this LOL..

 

[Michwol42795]

Very cool, one of my cats is a Bombay too! Nice cat that you have too Pittbull.

 

[Pittbull]

Thanks Mich..

 

[CWO4GUNNER]

My daughter has a long hair like that but with much shorter legs, looks like it floating across the floor when it walks. Amazing all the variations, only the gene that controls size cannot be manipulated like in dogs. Could you imagine a house cat the size of a Great Dane, it would kill you. Oh when I hiss I mostly vocalize different sounds and urgency, if I also stop my foot they know I mean business. They always burro in my bed between the blankets as is the Bombay's nature, they also don't meow but are chatty almost like a monkey and growl when showing stubbornness or refusal.

Anyway I tried some microwave blanched zucchini cut like 1 inch long worms and I cannot believe how much all my fish loved it. None of them not even my angels spit it out. Thanks for that tip.