Great info! Varied diet is key. I keep a big mix of northfin, xtreme and hikari. But my absolute favorite is Ron's cichlid food. Mix all those together for happy fish.
This is a great video guys. I'm honestly having a hard time how much to feed my first big tank (210) while making sure all of the fish (especially the bottom feeders) get some. This was definitely some good help in the right direction for me while I try and figure it out haha.
Thank you! I have a mbuna tank and was over feeding them a bit. Been only feeding them the Northfin Veggie pellets but just ordered the Xtreme Spirulina flakes to mix it up for them
Hey guys, THANK YOU for all your videos and great work! Question- I have mbuna of assorted sizes. They just keep breeding! I feed them Xtreme Spirulina flakes and cichlid pellets. What do you recommend for frozen food? Thanks in advance!
I've been getting a bit eager to see my cichlids grow and i feel like im doing something wrong because im not seeing the results i feel like i should but apparently im doing the right thing, Thanks!
Have an mbuna/hap/peacock tank, 150 gallon. And one tropheus to boot. What I do and seems to work for me is feed a quality pellet twice a day, three times a week. The other three days algae based foods. (Spirulina flakes and algae based pellets in the morning, followed by the same quality pellets in the evening. Seems to be working for me.
I didn’t know this and had a baby Jack Dempsey with two baby yellow labs and a blue johnni adult I was feeding them all protein pellets and my adult BJ got Blout I did some research and found out that was wrong food for them. His blout lasted a good week and once I started the plant base his belly went back to normal
Question for you, I just got into Mbuna and currently got six yellow electric. They are small roughly 2 inches and also have black skirt tetras that are about same size. Currently giving them just API Tropical flakes. Eventually will remove the black skirt tetras, but will the API Flakes work? Compared ingredient and they seem to have a lot of the same ingredients . And if I start giving them the flakes you recommend, how would that affect the tetras. Right now, only three days and they’re all thriving beautiful!
Hi, at the 5 minute mark what is the name of the blue fish that are with the yellow labs? I have a tank I want to start as a mbuna only tank. It's a 75 that's been running for 5 weeks and had 4 goldfish in it to help the cycle start for the first 4 weeks. I have some hornwort in the tank because I heard they won't eat it. I also have small pothos growing out the top and hob filter. I also will be building a 5 gallon bucket DIY filter for extra filtration. This will be first time having cichlids. I wanted to put in a max of 12 juvenile in at once to try and avoid any aggressive behavior. Is that a good or bad idea? I always hear you should add like 3 then wait a week then add 3 more and so on. So my thinking was to add all at once so there would be no dominant fish. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks
After watching this video i immediately hit up aquarium adventure and bought some xtreme spirulina flakes. I've been feed them new life spectrum pellets so i want to add flakes to their diet instead of feeding them pellets only
Guys I'm brand new to the cichlid tanks. I have 3x electric blue acreas, 2x red jewels and 1x jack Dempsey, the tank is heavy planted and water quality is fine, will these types of cichlids be ok together, had them for 3 days now and all seem to be fine so far
What would you recommend to feed 3 angel fish, 3 oscar cichlid (1 is an adult, the other 2 are about a year old) 1 adult common pleco, 2 bumblebee cichlid and one feeder fish that survived the feeding over a year ago?
Hi , I have 9 mbunas in my tank. Whenever I go near the tank they get scared and hide. Even when I feed them floating pellets they don't see them as they stay near the bottom of the tank most of the time. Don't know what's the problem, an suggestions sir?
I had pleco and angel fish with parrots and they died because of the food I still am new at this now I need what is good for them all and they are digging too.
Hi 👋🏻 I have yellow female cichlid along with male. My female cichlid is just staying corner of the tank. I don’t have big tank. So should I worried about this behaviour. What should I do 😢
In the Netherlands we dont have Xtreme food what i use myself in brands are , NLS, ocean nutrition , origin aquatic Nutrition, organix all premium foods and my fish are thriving
Don’t feed sera food because it’s very low quality and it will make your fish ill. I’ve been keeping fish for the past 30 years and sera is the worst food I’ve ever come across.
Interesting. Are you sure it was the food? We’ve just started mixing it in at maybe 10% of their diet and they seem to enjoy it. Not as good of ingredients as Xtreme. But fish seem to enjoy more than Northfin/API/NLS
i found dymax african cichlid 40% protein and spirulina forte 36% protein and some raw shrimp once every 10 days for Mbuna,Peacocks and 3 Haps they seem great
Love all your african cichlid videos! Your tanks are sigh worthy. 😊❤
80k!!!! That play button is around the corner!
Thanks! Looking forward to it!
Again, another helpful video. That’s for bringing us fish keepers great content.
You bet! Thanks for watching 👊🏻👊🏻
Great info! Varied diet is key. I keep a big mix of northfin, xtreme and hikari. But my absolute favorite is Ron's cichlid food. Mix all those together for happy fish.
Love it
Screen shotted this so I can order all of them later 😂
This is one of the most informative videos yet especially a visual of the measurement amounts...thank you!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching
This is a great video guys. I'm honestly having a hard time how much to feed my first big tank (210) while making sure all of the fish (especially the bottom feeders) get some. This was definitely some good help in the right direction for me while I try and figure it out haha.
Thank you for another informative video!
You bet!
Man I love the way the algae grew on the 135 tank.
Same! Love the look of the green algae
Thank you! I have a mbuna tank and was over feeding them a bit. Been only feeding them the Northfin Veggie pellets but just ordered the Xtreme Spirulina flakes to mix it up for them
Awesome, enjoy!
Hey guys, THANK YOU for all your videos and great work! Question- I have mbuna of assorted sizes. They just keep breeding! I feed them Xtreme Spirulina flakes and cichlid pellets. What do you recommend for frozen food? Thanks in advance!
Thanks for watching! I’d recommend spirulina brine shrimp, but only doing it sparingly for mbuna
@@CichlidBros Excellent thanks what I’ve been using for my juveniles - once a week. thanks again!
I've been getting a bit eager to see my cichlids grow and i feel like im doing something wrong because im not seeing the results i feel like i should but apparently im doing the right thing, Thanks!
Yep, just gotta be patient and they’ll grow!
So good
Can you do another video on feeding South Americans?
Definitely
I agree
I would definitely be interested in seeing this also.
Have an mbuna/hap/peacock tank, 150 gallon. And one tropheus to boot. What I do and seems to work for me is feed a quality pellet twice a day, three times a week. The other three days algae based foods. (Spirulina flakes and algae based pellets in the morning, followed by the same quality pellets in the evening. Seems to be working for me.
I didn’t know this and had a baby Jack Dempsey with two baby yellow labs and a blue johnni adult I was feeding them all protein pellets and my adult BJ got Blout I did some research and found out that was wrong food for them. His blout lasted a good week and once I started the plant base his belly went back to normal
So for the Mbuna what do you recommend ? I'm using Tetra Cichlid Flakes and Xtreme Cichlid Peewee 1.5 mm Pellets for both Mbuna and Peacocks?.
Hi so I’m keeping Mbunas, how many times should I feed them those flakes a day and how many times a week
Question for you, I just got into Mbuna and currently got six yellow electric. They are small roughly 2 inches and also have black skirt tetras that are about same size. Currently giving them just API Tropical flakes.
Eventually will remove the black skirt tetras, but will the API Flakes work? Compared ingredient and they seem to have a lot of the same ingredients . And if I start giving them the flakes you recommend, how would that affect the tetras.
Right now, only three days and they’re all thriving beautiful!
How many different kinds of food should I buy before adding fish to new cycled mbuna tank
Hi, at the 5 minute mark what is the name of the blue fish that are with the yellow labs?
I have a tank I want to start as a mbuna only tank. It's a 75 that's been running for 5 weeks and had 4 goldfish in it to help the cycle start for the first 4 weeks. I have some hornwort in the tank because I heard they won't eat it. I also have small pothos growing out the top and hob filter. I also will be building a 5 gallon bucket DIY filter for extra filtration. This will be first time having cichlids. I wanted to put in a max of 12 juvenile in at once to try and avoid any aggressive behavior. Is that a good or bad idea? I always hear you should add like 3 then wait a week then add 3 more and so on. So my thinking was to add all at once so there would be no dominant fish.
Would appreciate any advice. Thanks
After watching this video i immediately hit up aquarium adventure and bought some xtreme spirulina flakes. I've been feed them new life spectrum pellets so i want to add flakes to their diet instead of feeding them pellets only
Awesome, love to hear it. Enjoy!
@ 7:10 - 7:15. Those dark blue yellow striped top/fin cichlids; are those Acei, or something else? They're absolutely strikingly beautiful 🤤😍
Is it best to feed your fish sinking or floating pellets?
Either work but I usually do sinking
Guys I'm brand new to the cichlid tanks. I have 3x electric blue acreas, 2x red jewels and 1x jack Dempsey, the tank is heavy planted and water quality is fine, will these types of cichlids be ok together, had them for 3 days now and all seem to be fine so far
Hello I need a little help I’m trying to find good food for my mbuna
What would you recommend to feed 3 angel fish, 3 oscar cichlid (1 is an adult, the other 2 are about a year old) 1 adult common pleco, 2 bumblebee cichlid and one feeder fish that survived the feeding over a year ago?
I would do Xtreme pellets and krill flakes (links in description)
Hi , I have 9 mbunas in my tank. Whenever I go near the tank they get scared and hide. Even when I feed them floating pellets they don't see them as they stay near the bottom of the tank most of the time. Don't know what's the problem, an suggestions sir?
I had pleco and angel fish with parrots and they died because of the food I still am new at this now I need what is good for them all and they are digging too.
I have a blue berry OB mbunna can I get any mbunna for him to mate with?
Hi 👋🏻 I have yellow female cichlid along with male. My female cichlid is just staying corner of the tank. I don’t have big tank. So should I worried about this behaviour. What should I do 😢
In the Netherlands we dont have Xtreme food what i use myself in brands are , NLS, ocean nutrition , origin aquatic Nutrition, organix all premium foods and my fish are thriving
Very nice
What the difference between frozen krill and freeze dried which is best
Frozen is going to be more fresh without as much additives. Frozen is best but should be used sparingly so that they’ll still eat dry foods
@@CichlidBros I only feed once a week for frozen krill
Perfect@@MrMrHassan
MBuna Cichlids: Veggie Squad
Peacocks and Haps: Meat Squad
Don’t feed sera food because it’s very low quality and it will make your fish ill. I’ve been keeping fish for the past 30 years and sera is the worst food I’ve ever come across.
Interesting. Are you sure it was the food? We’ve just started mixing it in at maybe 10% of their diet and they seem to enjoy it. Not as good of ingredients as Xtreme. But fish seem to enjoy more than Northfin/API/NLS
i found dymax african cichlid 40% protein and spirulina forte 36% protein and some raw shrimp once every 10 days for Mbuna,Peacocks and 3 Haps they seem great