Help feeding south american cichlids

I have a jack dempsey convict blood perrot red tailed shark and 3 tiger barbs in a 75 gallon ( there used to be more tiger barbs my fish keep eating them ) I feed sundried krill twice a week and tetramin tropical flake food on the other days. What other foods can I feed them ? Please help

 

Omega One Cichlid pellets are good as well as Omega One Color flakes. I don't know where you are but Petsmart carries Omega one foods.
Carol

 

Treat them to some live food, or at least frozen food and they will love you.

 

I don't want to bring in diseases with live food what frozen food do you recommend ? And my local petsmart does Cary omega one I've look at it before I'll buy some next time I go

 

I don't want to bring in diseases with live food what frozen food do you recommend ? And my local petsmart does Cary omega one I've look at it before I'll buy some next time I go

Live brine shrimp, frozen bloodworms, and beef heart.

 

Where do you buy live brine shrimp ? And I though beef heart was bad for them because they can't digest mammal meet

 

We used to hatch and grow our own brine shrimp super easy!

 

Where do you buy live brine shrimp ? And I though beef heart was bad for them because they can't digest mammal meet

you can hatch eggs with a 2 liter and air stone, baby brine shrimp are one of the most nutritious foods available because of the yolk sack connected to the shrimp. Frozen bloodworms are way cheap and last a long time. Beef heart isn't like steak or ground beef, discus breeders feed their prized fish this so it can't be bad right?

To learn more about hatching shrimp you can google about a million results.

 

I feed mine frozen brine shrimp frozen blood worms cichlid pelets and nightcrawlers (a sometimes snack). They will break the water surface to grab a worm.

 

Oh I'll buy some beef heart then lol idk where to buy the eggs sorry I'm so slow

 

The eggs are sold at most lfs they are dry add some salt water instant shrimp babys. Have you every seen sea monkeys? Same thing here.

 

I've never seen them at my lfs I'll look though...

 

In the fish food section in tubes or jars usually.

 

Just be careful how many eggs you put in the container lol, it seems like a few...it not .

We also used to make our own beef heart based fish food for our Discus, I can't remember what was in it, but there are a number of recipes online.

 

I looked and I couldnt find any eggs

and I'm now down to 1 tiger barb

 

and I'm now down to 1 tiger barb

Well at least their nutritious. Seriously though, sorry that's just how keeping large cichlids works unless they are specifically known not to eat smaller fish. I would assume it's the jack, how big is it?

 

Psssst.... your Rocio Octofasciata and Cryptoheros Nigrofasciatus are Central American not South American.

Buy yourself the highest quality pellet you can afford and you won't need to feed 10 different things.




Brian

 

FishGuy101, You could get some NEW LIFE SPECTRUM pellets. They are the best in my opinion and a lot of other members feed nls as well.
Kens fish has them as well as amazon.

Your parrot would also love some romaine lettuce! Also feed frozen green peas 1 x a week to clean them out!
Just peel the skin off after they defrost and cut in the size you need for your fish.

 

yes my jack is the one hes about 2.5 - 3.5 inches jack dempseys are south and convicts are central through south american cichlids

 

jack dempseys are south and convicts are central through south american cichlids

I hate to be the one to tell you this but Rocio Octofasciata (Jack Dempsey) is a fish from Honduras and Mexico. They are not a South American cichlid.

I am not even sure what convicts are central through south American cichlids means?



Brian

 

I googled it =P

 

looks like ha have misread the sight