FEEDING AFRICAN CICHLIDS (How Much, How Often, & What Food) - 10 Tips!
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- In today's video, we discuss feeding African cichlids. This includes 10 tips to ensure your Lake Malawi African cichlids are as happy and healthy as possible. We discuss how much to feed the cichlids, how often you should be feeding, and some types of food that work best for Africans.
We try to feed our cichlids a variety of pellets, flakes, and frozen foods to give our fish the best diet possible, while trying not to over feed. For adult cichlids, typical recommendations would be to feed once per day, and roughly 5-6 times per week. Taking one day off per week can actually be beneficial to your fish. If you have any questions about feeding your cichlids, leave those in the comments section below!
If you're interested in any of the food we discussed in the video, below are affiliate links to each:
For Peacocks/Haps:
- Xtreme Krill Flakes - geni.us/iTAWsN
- Xtreme Big Fella Pellets - geni.us/9Cra
- Xtreme Monster Pellets: amzn.to/3DdQ6nR
- Xtreme Nice Pellets - geni.us/6ADcc
- Xtreme Nano Pellets - geni.us/SeOf
- Tetra Jumbo Krill - amzn.to/45zzjHm
- Sera Cichlid Pellets - amzn.to/46x4kwI
For Mbuna:
- Xtreme Spirulina Flakes (Vegetable Based) - geni.us/ByXSoL
- Northfin Veggie Pellets - amzn.to/3tJen37
- Sera Veggie Pellets - amzn.to/3Q04lSL
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week! - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
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 👊🏻👊🏻
Thank you for another informative video!
You bet!
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.
So good
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!
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 😂
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.
Hi so I’m keeping Mbunas, how many times should I feed them those flakes a day and how many times a week
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!
MBuna Cichlids: Veggie Squad
Peacocks and Haps: Meat Squad
How many different kinds of food should I buy before adding fish to new cycled mbuna tank
Can you do another video on feeding South Americans?
Definitely
I agree
I would definitely be interested in seeing this also.
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
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
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
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
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!
I have a blue berry OB mbunna can I get any mbunna for him to mate with?
@ 7:10 - 7:15. Those dark blue yellow striped top/fin cichlids; are those Acei, or something else? They're absolutely strikingly beautiful 🤤😍
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.
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!
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 😢
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
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)
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
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