What should I feed Mbunas?

[chazeman2]

Hey everyone i'm hopefully a couple of weeks away from getting my first fish. Will probably be getting yellow labs, yellow fin aceis, and maybe red zebras.(trying to keep it simple) I will not be stocking all of these at once of course.

Anyway what do you feed your mbunas or what do you suggest.

 

[bcurlacher54]

Also have seen a lot of members who use new life spectrum Thera A

 

[bcurlacher54]

Part of my answer was chopped off. I use newlife spectrum cichlid formula and nutrafin max spirulina flakes

 

[chazeman2]

cool thank you. Anyone make their own food at all?

 

[Andrew McFadden]

I make my own from time to time. I don't use it often because it a pain to walk upstairs and get it out of the freezer.

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/food_recipes.php
Otherwise I use hikari excel mini sinking pellets and algae wafers

 

[Wyomingite]

I've used several of the algae/vegetable based flakes from several major brands. API Tropical Greens is what I'm usin' currently.

The key thing in any prepared food for mbuna is to keep the percentage of protein down, as they are primarily algivores in the wild. I target less than 40% protein for prepared foods. Ya can also supplement their diet with a variety of blanched veggies: zuchini and squash, spinach, shelled peas, carrots, etc.

WYite

 

[Dean jones]

Sera Granugreen is great,New Era green pellets but getting it in the states might be hard ? Cucumber peas lettuce

 

[Cichlid-dude]

I feed nls thera a and hikari cichlid excel when the shop is out of nls.