Electric Yellow Cichlid Food

I'm sort of new to cichlids. I have prepared a tank for them. Water parameters are excellent.
I got 10 juvenile yellow labs yesterday. They are 1" - 1.5" long. This tank will be a single species tank.
My question is about food. I am looking at Northfin Veggie formula. Example NORTHFIN Cichlid Formula 1 mm Sinking Pellets Fish Food, 250-g bag - Chewy.com
Is this pellet size 1mm good for these small fish? Should I be looking at floating or sinking food?
And lastly can I feed small amounts of regular tropical fish food until the correct food arrives in about 7 days? I do have some frozen kelp, spirulina and mytiss shrimp on hand. Sorry about the spelling.
Any suggestions appreciated.

 

All my African Cichlids, including Mbuna, thrived on Omega One Cichlid pellets and flakes.
Including NLS Thera +A (Garlic enriched pellets) would be a very good supplement.

 

Mysis are too big at the moment. You can feed them when they have grown.

I'd do a mix of at least 3 different choices of frozen/live food in rotation, fresh veggies 3x a week and one high quality pellet inbetween.

And under NO circumstances feed them bloodworms.

 

Mysis are too big at the moment. You can feed them when they have grown.

I'd do a mix of at least 3 different choices of frozen/live food in rotation, fresh veggies 3x a week and one high quality pellet inbetween.

And under NO circumstances feed them bloodworms.

Got it. No blood worms. I bought some frozen small cubes with kelp, spirulina, and the shrimp and introduced one cube this am. It was not readily accepted. Yes I saw the shrimp once it thawed and they were considerable in size. I'm certain they have never been fed this before.
I am using some tropical fish flake until the pellets arrive. I am feeding once per day and only a very small amount.
The transition from store to my tank has gone well. All the fish look and are acting great.

 

I also use the Omega One cichlid pellets for all of mine. Also nice tank!

Mysis are too big at the moment. You can feed them when they have grown.

I'd do a mix of at least 3 different choices of frozen/live food in rotation, fresh veggies 3x a week and one high quality pellet inbetween.

And under NO circumstances feed them bloodworms.

I have never used bloodworms for my cichlids, but what is the reasoning behind not using them?

 

I have never used bloodworms for my cichlids, but what is the reasoning behind not using them?

a. They are nutritionally a mess.
b. They evidently can kill Mbuna and Tropheus. As that stuff can cause allergic reactions in humans it's likely something similar.
c. Red mosquito larvae are cultured in questionable conditions. The water is usually quite polluted.

That said frozen foods are best fed thawed and rinsed.

Something about the hardscape: I would switch to rounded material. Mbuna chase each other quite aggressively (yes, Yellow Labs too.), so dragon stone tends to pose a thread for injury. It also takes much more than this.I'd triple the amount of rocks.

 

a. They are nutritionally a mess.
b. They evidently can kill Mbuna and Tropheus. As that stuff can cause allergic reactions in humans it's likely something similar.
c. Red mosquito larvae are cultured in questionable conditions. The water is usually quite polluted.

That said frozen foods are best fed thawed and rinsed.

Something about the hardscape: I would switch to rounded material. Mbuna chase each other quite aggressively (yes, Yellow Labs too.), so dragon stone tends to pose a thread for injury. It also takes much more than this.I'd triple the amount of rocks.

Fair enough!



My thoughts on the hardscape. Rounded materials are better as far as possible injuries; however, I ignored this advice a year ago because I had already set it up and put the time and investment into it. I have been running with a dragon stone hardscape in my 75g cichlid tank for a year and have had no noticeable injuries from the scape. That being said if you do use a sharper rock you just have to be cautious of possible injuries and make changes where necessary.
TLDR: Theoretically dragon stone is bad. Anecdotally it has worked for me.

 

TLDR: Theoretically dragon stone is bad. Anecdotally it has worked for me.

You're lucky. I had several cases here and elsewhere where fish had severe injuries from that stuff. Same with holey rock. Although there fish tend to just get stuck and injure themselves trying to get out.
To be clear, never happened to my fish as I always used rounded rocks.