What foods should I use to avoid Bloat?

[supadave]

The cheapest places that I have found..that also have the best selection are Xtreme Fish and Pets and City Pets. Troung over at Xtreme had all the flavors.

[cichlid1409]

locally i'm with dave ^^^^^

online

https://www.fishfreakscichlids.com

https://www.melsfish.com

[Fire_chair]

I always get mine at the HAS auctions, but that probably doesn't help you much right now.

[armthehomeless]

What is bloat? Have a tank with about a half a dozen mixed mbuna cichlids and I have been feeding tetra flake as the staple diet with a cube of frozen bloodworms thrown in the tank once a week for a treat, is this the wrong food for them?
Mike B

Feeding bloodworms on occasion won't be too bad... but avoid doing it any more often than you are already.

[Complexity]

The cheapest places that I have found..that also have the best selection are Xtreme Fish and Pets and City Pets. Troung over at Xtreme had all the flavors.

That works. Thanks!

[tunedis95]

One thing i learned over the past couple days...is not to feed them as much. I was treating my fish to diner as if i was eating and feeding them to much i guess. Since i cut back they all have lost their little bellies.

[bpseoe]

I too am a huge fan of NLS. I use both NLS thera a and NLS cichlid formula.the fish go crazy for this stuff plus it has everything that's needed to propmote good health, growth and coloration.

[billansor]

One of the things that I noticed is the ingredients label. When the first three or four first ingredients have wheat as part of their line up..... I stay away with from that food. Every single rotten stupid idiotic dumb ninny time I have fed either my Malawi's or tangs food that have wheat in the very beginning, I lose fish, they die, they bloat, they stink, they float, they breath hard and no they are not reproducing.

Spirulinia acts like a laxative... Veggie matter also does. The mustard greens anchored will be devoured. A little Shrimp helps, Frozen Krill also.

Next big issue is to make sure that you gradually add new food to the diet.... I mean very very slowly gradually. Taking a little pinch and adding it every two days and then gradually going up to every day as part of the snack is wise and essential if you do not want floaters.

There is so much erroneous information out there about the food and cost will drive the manufacturers to do things that would make us throw up if we knew, that is why I make my own food... The DIY Shrimp mix is posted....

Bill

[RonR.]

Any NLS food. I feed NLS Thera A. Dainichi foods are good. I also feed Dainichi's Ultima, Supreme and Color FX.

Frozen foods I feed are Hikari krill and mysis.

I feed 1x daily and even skip a day or 2 during the week feeding only what the fish will eat within 5-10 minutes.

[lbremer]

This is a pretty basic question. I've had different varieties of fish for the better part of ten years, and it seems like I've always fed them food that floats, with the exception of algae wafers. Since I've relatively new to cichlids, and based on this thread, I've tried some of the Dainchi and NLA pellets, which sink. So here's my question: how do I know if I'm overfeeding? I've always fed what they eat in about 2 minutes. But the sinking pellets seem to get lost in the gravel, and I have no idea if the fish are finding all of them. Should I feed more slowly so that they catch most or all of the food before it reaches the bottom, or should I just feed roughly the same amount as the floating food and assume that they find it in the gravel.

[kbuntu]

NLS all the way 2 times a day. In my opinion water quality and size of the tank is equally important in order to avoid food.

[BeefyG]

What about Tetra Colorbits? Will they for sure cause bloat? I've been feeding my Mbuna that for about a month and a half just because its what I have on hand and I haven't bought anything else yet. They seem to love it and I try to not feed too much. I also throw some algae in there and it looks like they've munched on it though I've never seen them do it.

Update: Nevermind... I'm going to switch to NLS Cichlid...