Article From SubmitYOURArticle.com: Easy Cichlid Feeding Tips

Cichild feeding is not particularly difficult
because they like a wide variety of foods. You
can feed them live food, prepared food, or a
combination. It may take a little convincing to
get your cichlid to accept pellets or other
prepared foods, but once they are accustomed to
it they will gobble prepared foods up eagerly as
well.

Cichilds enjoy hunting for their food, so live
food is definitely something you should consider.
However, there is a risk of disease or
population contamination when introducing live
food to the tank. This is why most pet stores
and fish owners prefer to keep the diet primarily
pellets. A treat of live food every once in a
while is the best method, with pellets making up
the bulk of the diet.

The benefits of using primarily prepared food for
your Cichilds are many, ranging from ease of
accessibility to making sure they are receiving
all of the nutrition they need. You can use
automatic feeders with pellets and it is much
easier to instruct a sitter how to feed your fish
if you aren't trying to show them how to handle
live food.

Two notes about live foods. Many aquarists have
noticed that their cichlids sometimes become sick
and die after eating bloodworms. The reason for
this is that the natural habitat of bloodworms
contains substances that are toxic to cichlids
and if those toxins have found their way into the
bloodworm's body, it can harm your cichlid.
Also, in their natural habitat, cichlids like to
eat the algae off of rocks. You could let the
algae grow on some rocks in your aquarium and the
cichlids will probably eat it, which will bring
you one step closer to a self-sustaining aquarium.

Because Cichlids are predators, they probably
won't respond to pellets at first unless they
were raised on them from the beginning. You may
have to trick them for a while by using an eye
dropper to move the pellet around and make it
more interesting. Even then they may not take to
the taste. Having other pellet eating fish in
the same tank could help your Cichild to learn to
eat its new food when it sees other fish gobbling
it up.

Different species will learn at different rates,
so be patient and consistent. Most Cichilds can
go for up to a month without eating, so don't
give in and let them have live food for fear of
starving them. When they get hungry, they will
eat nearly anything. Once you have them trained,
cichlid feeding is really easy.

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