Feeding the cichlids

[twasbrillig33]

Those compressiceps are gorgeous!

[KATOKICKSGREENHORNET]

Fresh!

Great fish

[glowsfxx]

any word on the song title very nice chill out??? cool fish tank btw I hope to get my tiger oscar a big tank like that one day... thx

[badstorm23]

...;))) good video nice tank;)

[Hai38]

Good video thx

[Hai38]

Very Good (nice)

[cichlids4everdotcom]

Nice Venustus!!!

[gordonputfile]

At the time of this video how long had you had these fish and had you always fed nls? the colours are amazing.

[y2kenny]

When this video was made they've been fed NLS for 2 years (though not exclusively, I also feed them raw shrimp from the fish market, krill, and mysis shrimp). These days NLS pellets make up 85% of their diet.

[gordonputfile]

thanks for the info.

[MESP]

you have a nice venustus there =)

[MESP]

you have a nice venustus there =)

[jasoncham2003]

my front is very happy in his home. He is actually the most agressive in the tank.

[y2kenny]

But you stated the mbuna's eat all the food before your fronts get to it; it would be happier if it got a large quantity of the food. What type of mbuna's do you have and how large are they? The pellets I mentioned can still be eaten by most of them (you know how greedy they can be).

[jasoncham2003]

How big are the peletts? I am feeding mine cichlid formula and they are 1cm. I wanted something bigger.  All my Mbuna eat all the food before my Fronts can get to it.

[y2kenny]

I think you meant to say the cichlid formula is 1mm (not 1cm). The large fish formula pellets are 3mm. Ideally, though, frontosa's shouldn't be kept with mbuna's as they can be outcompeted during feeding, and also outclassed as far as aggression goes.

[dizzrockn]

thats y you dont mix fronts with mbuna....

[jasoncham2003]

what are you feeding them?

[y2kenny]

New Life Spectrum Large Fish Formula.

[userkayser]

men... were r u from???

[Ren728]

nice malawi eye bitters man i use to have two but my red devil killed one and the other one died becuz...dont know i jus went to look and it was dead

[choyadgreat]

I especially love the dimidiochromis compressiceps... I had a pair before and I was able to breed them... All the fry became food for the rest of my aquarium inhabitants though... WTG dude... Nice set-up, marvelous fish! :-)

[3471gtr]

i use to have the same black and white stripe chiclid and it was very piss off fish it's more aggressive than it's own cousin chiclids .

[y2kenny]

Did you have frontosas or another species of striped cichlid? Frontosa's aren't very aggressive (except in some cases toward their own kind or smaller fish which they're able to eat).

[mahoney260]

i have had cuchlids for about 2 years now and i have noticed that  if you feed them small to medium rosies they will not bad as aggressive as they would if you feed them flakes.... you can even try cichlid pellets

[y2kenny]

I'm not big on providing feeders. My two female venustus' each produce over 50 fry every month or so (one is usually mouthbrooding at any given time). I'm unable to rear these fry so they're the only 'live food' they get to eat.

[eunakes2007]

beautifool! how big is your tank?

[y2kenny]

180gal.

[eunakes2007]

thank you!

[r1k034]

Bloody nice fish dude

[SoundsFantastic]

beautiful fish, love the Venus, what is the blue face one called? and what kind of compressiceps do you have?

[y2kenny]

The blue-faced one is a male nimbochromis venustus. The compressiceps are dimidiochromis compressiceps, also known as 'Malawi Eye Biters'.

[various77]

great

[charleihaas]

cooolllll