Diet

Diet is very important. You need a variety of foods and a staple food for your cichlids. Variety keeps them healthy, brighter colours, faster growth rate and keeps them interested in food. 

Some people feed once a day, twice a day, three times a day. I prefer to feed different foods (staple first) in smaller amounts so their is no waster and it's better on their digestion then one big feeding.

What you need is a good staple pellet. I use New Life Spectrum and Hikari Cichlid Gold.  

Feeders

Feeders are not good, they cary diseases, cichlids love them don't get me wrong but they carry so much disease plus their is no nutritional value. And once you get them on feeders they may stop eating their food and that's a big problem.

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Food Listing Chart

A list of nutricious foods, variet is the key to healthy Cichlids.

Dry Foods

 Hikari Gold           
 Hikari Staple
 Hikari Biogold
 HBH Oscar Show
 Sinking Shrimp Pellets
 Wardleys Flakes
 Wardleys Pellets
 Spirulina Flakes
 Cichlid Spirulina Sticks
 Gammarus
 Algae Wafers
 Omega One
 Krill
 TetraMin
 Aquarian
 Cichlid Starters (sinkers)
 Life Science BIO-Blend
 TetraDoromin Complete

Frozen & Live Foods

 Blood Worms 
 Black Worms
 Meal Worms
 Silk Worms
 Earth Worms
 Super Worms
 Plankton 
 Shrimp
 Daphnia
 Brine Shrimp
 Squid
 Scallops
 Prawns
 Beef heart
 Crickets/Grasshoppers
 Crayfish
 Moths
 Ghost Shrimp
 Live Worms
 Peas (de-shelled)