For years I've used Hikari Cichlid Gold as a staple and supplement with blood worms, shrimp, spirulina, etc. I have no real complaints, but just wondering if there are other/better options out there in 2021?
Best Cichlid Food?
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ive heard xtreme is the best but have never tried it.
Read the ingredients label on all of the food that you are considering. You should see water bourn plants and protein as the main ingredients. Ingredients are listed in descending order from highest percentage to lowest. At least this is the way I understand it.
hikari cichlid gold isnt that good if you look at the ingredients thats why i prefer omega 1 krill/bottom feeder pellets but i still use both. algae wafers tend to be one of the most nutritious dry foods for fish. another thing to consider is herbivorous rift lake cichlids will need a much different staple from something like a pike cichlid.
I feed my firemouths NLS and bug bites cichlid formula (think I need to get the next size up the small is perfect for baby fires not so much the adults being more or less dust).
Agree depends on the species and if it's a piscivore ,omnivore, or herbivore.
Which kind of NLS are you using? I used to feed NLS to my saltwater community tank and worked well, but the cichlid food has always looked underwhelming. My green terror is used to large sized Hikari gold and I'm not sure that he'd adjust to a 1-3 mm pellet.Oh man did you just open a can of worms....
Can't go wrong with New Life Spectrum.
May be some work to swap them over, but a lot better quality of food.
Casper gets NLS only
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Green terrors are more herbivorous (you can tell by how long the poo is), so it's best to feed it NLS Algaemax. You can get the mini wafer size (7.25-7.75mm).
Hikari Gold Large is 7.2~ 8.2mm
NLS comes in many sizes and formulas. Sinking, floating, Algeamax etc so you can pick the best type for your particular fish.
My big guy gets Extra large floating pellets, the smaller cichlids get a small pellet, the PTC gets a medium floating, and the smalls get flakes.
