Use a food injector syringe and add gelatin to your food mix. Pack it into a food injector syringe and push out worms the size of your choosing right onto your table, and drop them into your tank. Instead of pouring the mushy granulated food of tiny bits into tank. Make home made fish food worms.
new sub.. I’m just so so confused about how to create a Cichlid tank because I have kind of a girly 55 gallon; but cichlids are kind of out of my element
Thank you! Can you upsize to a 75? That’s a decent size for mbuna or they have dwarf cichlids too. Some would even say a 55 for mbuna, but I think it would be a bit small. A 125 is the ideal starting point imo for peacocks and haps.
Hey, just came across your video and love the content. I wanted to know information about your tank size, and dominions. Also, where could I purchase my own.
Based on my own experience, fasting fish sometimes help boost their activity and color, because they do get hungary for days from time to time in the wild. It can even be a whole season when food is scarse.
@@CichlidCharmer in general. I started African lake Cichlid not long ago but had American Cichlid and African river Cichlid for over 20 ;). Love the style of your video btw 😍
@@dakiwifuit7587 I think fasting my angelfish and geos for a day would be fine. My Africans I think would be cranky 😬. Thanks again for the info and the positive feedback!
I love your vids and yours tank looks sooooooo beautiful and the fishes tho 🥰😍🤩🔥💖 I have fantosa and chickleds me and my father are thinking to put a bigger size tank beside our sofa. I am waiting for the day to come love fishs when I was born. I am from India.
@@kevin.daniel_47 all the way from India - thank you so much for the kind words! I hope you get your large tank! I feel like not long after I get a larger tank, it starts to seem just a little too small 😂. I’ve been wishing I’d bought a bit larger tank lately
Not bio gold, but someone gave me some Hikari cichlid gold. The first Ingredient is fish meal, followed by at least four fillers. Not going to feed it to my guys.
Why not making your fish fresh veggies which s far better & contain more nutrients than some of this processed ones? I gave her pilled, cooked fresh pees & sometimes she acts like my dog. Bagging tail in the water asking for more it’s so funny I was looking at ur video to get idea on what’s truly good food to feed African cichlids? 😊
I don't think people realize how important it is to spread the good out so everyone gets some. A lot of people think there fish is sick like it has parasites but really what happened is they weren't an aggressive eater. Over time they lost eight and strength and stop eating all together. They throw every medication they can find to save the fish in the tank but nothing helps. They aren't sick. They've been slowly starved by the other fish.
Yes! I have a huge furcicauda who is slow and he barely gets any food. I have to hand feed him, which is pretty fun. But I make sure everyone gets a shot at the main course. I’ve had a few with sunken belly that were just poor eaters too.
Thanks for the info and recipe of what you use, never thought to make my own food and stick it in the freezer and frig. hum good idea, now I feel badly for my poor slobs just getting old dry kibble from the pet store!
So I was wondering about the duplicate thing with aggression does this happen between females? I'm curious cause I have a female blue dolphin and one currently on the way from a friend... will the females be okay together?
I don’t keep female peacocks and haps, so not sure if you don’t have a male and only two females if that would work. If you have a male in the tank, then you’ll want probably around three or four females to keep them from getting sexually harassed to the point of exhaustion and they can get beat up a bit. If it’s just two females in the tank, I’d probably give it a shot and just watch closely. As long as the tank is large enough.
@@CichlidCharmer okay I think I will give it a shot and see what happens I've got the day off so I'll be messing with em most the day doing water changes and what not and i currently have 2 125g one not set up but I got 15 fish in it currently mix of peacock and hap I appreciate your time and advice as always and I love your videos! Entertaining and very informative 😁btw I wanted to say I'm sorry about what happend to alcatraz a lil while back that made me sad I really felt that I'm glad zeke was okay tho❤️
You’re welcome, and thank you. Yeah after I moved Zeke to the 75 for a bit, he was just fine. Like nothing happened. He is an amazing fish. I am SO GLAD he didn’t die.
I leave my top wave maker on and bottom Wave maker off and also shut my fx6 off so it doesn't get sucked up in the intake. I'm overstocked in my 75 gallon so I gotta do it like that lol. But I just ordered my 125 and it'll be here Monday.
This is my 2nd video I watched and I subscribed. Since I'm new to cichlids I need all the help I can get. I just bought mbuna from a breeder in Florida and bought a bag of food they use. When it's gone I will try the north fin. Thanks for making the videos.
Really love your fish! Have you done an indepth video on the stocking choices and species for this tank? Looking to start a 220g soon and Mbuna are winning at the moment... but your tank is so impressive I'd love to know exactly what you have in there as I don't know all the species yet.
I don’t have any experience with auto feeders, so I would have to try one out before I needed it to make sure it will work. I would prefer to have someone I trust feed them while I am away. I keep food portioned out in baggies for each day, so they don’t have to try to remember how much they get. Most fish can go several days without food, but my Africans get really cranky. And they are already cranky all the time 😂
Good content, as usual. I knocked the fast day on the head with Africans too - they turn psycho otherwise. Was OK with a traditional freshwater setup but not Africans. Brine shrimp are my guys favourite. They get that twice a week for dinner. Rest of the time is as you do, the best quality flakes and pellets I can get - mainly Origin foods here in the UK
Yeah crazy + starving = 👹😡. I’ve done brine a few times with my guys too. When I run out of krill I think I am going to buy some frozen shrimp and try bits of that. Maybe use a cheese grater. Thanks for coming back, Paul. I didn’t realize you were in the UK! Awesome
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How do you feed your fish? Let me know! Special thanks to Poo Head for suggesting TDO Chroma Boost! You the man, Poo Head 😎
Use a food injector syringe and add gelatin to your food mix. Pack it into a food injector syringe and push out worms the size of your choosing right onto your table, and drop them into your tank. Instead of pouring the mushy granulated food of tiny bits into tank. Make home made fish food worms.
Thanks for the idea!
new sub.. I’m just so so confused about how to create a Cichlid tank because I have kind of a girly 55 gallon; but cichlids are kind of out of my element
Thank you! Can you upsize to a 75? That’s a decent size for mbuna or they have dwarf cichlids too. Some would even say a 55 for mbuna, but I think it would be a bit small. A 125 is the ideal starting point imo for peacocks and haps.
@@CichlidCharmer I am keeping my eye out for an affordable 120. Right now I just have a one-eyed polar Blue Tiger parrot Cichlid, and a little 5 bar.
Hey, just came across your video and love the content. I wanted to know information about your tank size, and dominions. Also, where could I purchase my own.
Thank you! Here’s all the tank info: FULL TOUR -- Home & 5 TANKS
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Love this tank !!!😊 Well done
Much appreciated!
Based on my own experience, fasting fish sometimes help boost their activity and color, because they do get hungary for days from time to time in the wild. It can even be a whole season when food is scarse.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Are you referring to regular fish or psycho African cichlids?
@@CichlidCharmer in general. I started African lake Cichlid not long ago but had American Cichlid and African river Cichlid for over 20 ;). Love the style of your video btw 😍
@@dakiwifuit7587 I think fasting my angelfish and geos for a day would be fine. My Africans I think would be cranky 😬. Thanks again for the info and the positive feedback!
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I should have mentioned that I turn off my filters. Thank for watching and commenting, Dennis. Good to see you back here 😎
Thanks, Kevin!
I love your vids and yours tank looks sooooooo beautiful and the fishes tho 🥰😍🤩🔥💖 I have fantosa and chickleds me and my father are thinking to put a bigger size tank beside our sofa. I am waiting for the day to come love fishs when I was born. I am from India.
@@kevin.daniel_47 all the way from India - thank you so much for the kind words! I hope you get your large tank! I feel like not long after I get a larger tank, it starts to seem just a little too small 😂. I’ve been wishing I’d bought a bit larger tank lately
@@CichlidCharmer Even I feel that I wished my tank would be more bigger 😉😂.
Have gou ever tried hikari bio + gold?
Not bio gold, but someone gave me some Hikari cichlid gold. The first Ingredient is fish meal, followed by at least four fillers. Not going to feed it to my guys.
I turn off my filters when I feed my fish.
Keeps you from throwing money away for sure 👍
Why not making your fish fresh veggies which s far better & contain more nutrients than some of this processed ones?
I gave her pilled, cooked fresh pees & sometimes she acts like my dog. Bagging tail in the water asking for more it’s so funny
I was looking at ur video to get idea on what’s truly good food to feed African cichlids? 😊
I feed my boys raw shrimp from Costco once per week and also blanched zucchini once per week
Sorry for the misspelling
Fresh vegi I meant
That’s okay. But yeah, I give them fresh veggies as treats.
If I can ask.
Where did you get your black plants from?
Sure. I bought those from lower30farms or lower40farms on Etsy. I’m really happy with them.
That tank looks too small for your house and def too small for all those fish. You must be changing water allllll the time. Get a bigger tank.
You’re too small 😝
😂😂😂@@CichlidCharmer
Your aquarium video is crazy viral in best cichlid fish aquarium in the world ❤
That is a huge compliment -- thanks!
I use a mixture of Spirulina 20 (flakes), Bug Bites (cichlid), and TDO Chroma boost.
I don't think people realize how important it is to spread the good out so everyone gets some. A lot of people think there fish is sick like it has parasites but really what happened is they weren't an aggressive eater. Over time they lost eight and strength and stop eating all together. They throw every medication they can find to save the fish in the tank but nothing helps. They aren't sick. They've been slowly starved by the other fish.
Yes! I have a huge furcicauda who is slow and he barely gets any food. I have to hand feed him, which is pretty fun. But I make sure everyone gets a shot at the main course. I’ve had a few with sunken belly that were just poor eaters too.
I think I’ve experienced this…
I use Ron's Mbuna mix, North fin veggie and Xtreme Nice...
That sounds like a great mix!
I bought NorthFin premium fish food pack for African cichlids but I’m concern on the tile
“ Alimentary de choice pour poisons “
Poissons means fish
Well we can eat them if hungry! 😜😜😜
I have a guy that is blind in one eye and he has a heck of a time finding his food.
I have a strigatus with only one working eye who does circles to catch his pellets.
Did you notice if the TDO Boost helped on coloring or not? I jus recently started including that.
I noticed when I was using only tdo that the fish with reds became much more red. It doesn’t do much for the other colors. It is good food.
What kind of african cichlid is zeke? His colors are beautiful
Thank you! He’s the best fish that ever lived. Zebra Obliquidens. Every AFRICAN CICHLID in Detail!
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Someone told me 2-3 times a week I feel horrible😢
Did it cause any problems?
how much should you feed small african cichlids
If they are juvies, you can feed them what they would eat in a few seconds two or even three times per day.
Great video! Have you noticed an improvement to the colors of your cichlids since using the TDO Chroma Boost?
It does boost the reds
What about the other colors?
Thanks for the info and recipe of what you use, never thought to make my own food and stick it in the freezer and frig. hum good idea, now I feel badly for my poor slobs just getting old dry kibble from the pet store!
🤣 I am sure they are happy to eat what you give them. Thanks for the comment! Funny 😄
So I was wondering about the duplicate thing with aggression does this happen between females? I'm curious cause I have a female blue dolphin and one currently on the way from a friend... will the females be okay together?
I don’t keep female peacocks and haps, so not sure if you don’t have a male and only two females if that would work. If you have a male in the tank, then you’ll want probably around three or four females to keep them from getting sexually harassed to the point of exhaustion and they can get beat up a bit. If it’s just two females in the tank, I’d probably give it a shot and just watch closely. As long as the tank is large enough.
@@CichlidCharmer okay I think I will give it a shot and see what happens I've got the day off so I'll be messing with em most the day doing water changes and what not and i currently have 2 125g one not set up but I got 15 fish in it currently mix of peacock and hap I appreciate your time and advice as always and I love your videos! Entertaining and very informative 😁btw I wanted to say I'm sorry about what happend to alcatraz a lil while back that made me sad I really felt that I'm glad zeke was okay tho❤️
You’re welcome, and thank you. Yeah after I moved Zeke to the 75 for a bit, he was just fine. Like nothing happened. He is an amazing fish. I am SO GLAD he didn’t die.
@@CichlidCharmer me too! He's the greatest fish that ever lived! I think I have his crazy brother!🤣
I leave my top wave maker on and bottom Wave maker off and also shut my fx6 off so it doesn't get sucked up in the intake. I'm overstocked in my 75 gallon so I gotta do it like that lol. But I just ordered my 125 and it'll be here Monday.
This is my 2nd video I watched and I subscribed. Since I'm new to cichlids I need all the help I can get. I just bought mbuna from a breeder in Florida and bought a bag of food they use. When it's gone I will try the north fin.
Thanks for making the videos.
Glad to see you here, and thanks for subscribing! Make sure you read reviews on online dealers. Northfin is awesome
Really love your fish! Have you done an indepth video on the stocking choices and species for this tank? Looking to start a 220g soon and Mbuna are winning at the moment... but your tank is so impressive I'd love to know exactly what you have in there as I don't know all the species yet.
Hey thank you, Andrew! I have not. I do have some species profiles both in short form and long form though. I will add that idea to my list!
Not even a shout-out for the TDO recommendation?😢 😂
Oh man. I’m adding you to my description and I will pin a comment. Sorry man! Thanks for watching though. Good to see you, Poo Head!
@@CichlidCharmer I was just messing with you, all good. Like you said I'm kind of bummed they don't make bigger pellets
@@poohead8022 too late - already done! You are awesome for recommending it.
Another classic from my man. Love the pro tip. Hope all is well brother.
I appreciate it, Steve!
Two feedings of that much food 😳, damn i mist be really underfeeding
Do you have 30-40 African cichlids ranging mostly between 6-12”?
does that northfin cloud water?
It never has clouded my water.
I have a question what do you recommend using while away on vacation for 10 days?
I don’t have any experience with auto feeders, so I would have to try one out before I needed it to make sure it will work. I would prefer to have someone I trust feed them while I am away. I keep food portioned out in baggies for each day, so they don’t have to try to remember how much they get. Most fish can go several days without food, but my Africans get really cranky. And they are already cranky all the time 😂
@@CichlidCharmer thank you
@@Goofygoober_84 welcome!
Where can I find tdo food
I bought mine from Bulk Reef Supplies, Michael. It was about $30 per pound.
@@CichlidCharmer thanks good work btw I've been watching your channel as of late and enjoying it!
@@michaelmcclendon3220 I sure appreciate that, Michael. More than you know 🙏
Good content, as usual. I knocked the fast day on the head with Africans too - they turn psycho otherwise. Was OK with a traditional freshwater setup but not Africans. Brine shrimp are my guys favourite. They get that twice a week for dinner. Rest of the time is as you do, the best quality flakes and pellets I can get - mainly Origin foods here in the UK
Yeah crazy + starving = 👹😡. I’ve done brine a few times with my guys too. When I run out of krill I think I am going to buy some frozen shrimp and try bits of that. Maybe use a cheese grater. Thanks for coming back, Paul. I didn’t realize you were in the UK! Awesome
Any brand frozen krill u recommend?
@@Goofygoober_84 whatever the shop has. It’s just krill 👍
@@Goofygoober_84 I just use whatever the pet store has, like Paul said.