Food for calvus

[Uncle Dirty]

Hello, I've had a white calvus for awhile and am wondering what the best food is to get him to grow. He's in with my African cichlids in a 40G. I've read that NLS Finicky 1mm pellets are good. Any thoughts?

 

[tropical-fish]

Calvus are very slow growing fish. Even as fry they take a long time to grow out.

I have gold head comps which are very similar and feed them frozen mysis and brine shrimp.

Hard pellets are known to damage/deform the roof of the calvus's mouth. Something to keep in mind.

 

[bettaowner]

I would go with the brine shrimp too.

 

[Uncle Dirty]

Any type of flake food good for them?

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

I feed mine 1mm Cichlid formula nls. Mine is about 1.5" and takes them no problem. I also feed frozen brine but not that often. You will need some type of pellet or flake. It's hard to maintain a healthy diet on just frozen food

 

[Uncle Dirty]

That's what I'm wondering, what flakes would be best?

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

Any nls or omega one