Cichlid bloat?

[Berylla]

Okay the things their food is going to consist of will be peas, cichlid gold pellets, nutrafin max plus yeast and omaga 3 flakes, and maybe some algea daggers since ky plecos need them

Good plan, but again, feed every other day. lightly.

 

[mariah]

Good plan, but again, feed every other day. lightly.

i feel bad though.... I am very bad with feeding my other fish to much food and I cant just not feed them one day. I do somtimes not feed them but not as often as i should. My gourami is trained that even before I turn the light on that he is in the same spot everyday... same with my goldfish. they are always all in the same corner where i put the food. I am cutting down on their food a bit. i am really trying lol. are cichlids different in a way that they need less food then tropical fish?

 

[Berylla]

A BIG YES. LESS food is MORE for Africans.

 

[mariah]

A BIG YES. LESS food is MORE for Africans.

Okay sounds good

 

[mariah]

A BIG YES. LESS food is MORE for Africans.

All of the cichlids are back to normal!!!

 

[bigbanker]

Good to hear!

PS until I got out of the habit of overfeeding I put my food out of sight. Out of sight out of mind.

 

[mariah]

Good to hear!

PS until I got out of the habit of overfeeding I put my food out of sight. Out of sight out of mind.

Haha yes. I have all my food on a lower shelf, try not to look at it. I have been feeding once a day and small amounts. They got 16 pellets today but the red blotch ate like 4-5... so some cichlids didnt get food today. He is a pig and was the one that was huge