How I Feed ALL MY Aquariums

[@CichlidCharmer]

How and what do our feed all your fish? Let us all know!

[@robertjohnston25]

I only feed NorthFin for dry food! No nasty preservatives or fillers. The food also doesn’t swell up much at all; if at all. Aside from that I feed frozen bloodworms, krill, salmon, tilapia, shrimp, and occasionally zucchini.👌

[@rantsandreviews]

You managed to make a 16 minute Northfin commercial interesting. Great job!

[@CichlidCharmer]

😂😂😂 thank you!

[@Jerosfishkeeper]

Very impressive seeing a small channel with such amazing quality. Happy to be your new subscriber 👍

[@CichlidCharmer]

I really appreciate your support. Thank you!

[@twogunn1]

Your tanks, and your scaping ideas for your tanks are solid.. keep it coming bro. You ever thought about a lake tanganyika set?

[@CichlidCharmer]

Thank you! I have, but I have other SAs I would choose first. At least that’s what I’m thinking right now.

[@twogunn1]

Yeah man, I’m getting back into the hobby real soon

[@brianhahn3296]

Great vid bud, love the channel, I feed a buffet to mine lol, northfin, extreme, pe energetics, sera and the frozen pe shrimp are krill. Keep ‘em coming

[@CichlidCharmer]

Thank you!

[@chefsteve8381]

Great video, feeding fish is so important especially how much...enjoying your work....thanks

[@CichlidCharmer]

I appreciate it - thanks!

[@chefsteve8381]

@@CichlidCharmer Oh i feed my fish extreme foods, bloodworm and brine shrimp..

[@LeeLee-yo7bf]

Great channel, I'm deciding what to put in my new 125 gallon, Mbruno cichlids or Electric Blue Acara. I'm going to try and binge watch all your videos. Thanks for the channel.

[@CichlidCharmer]

I think mbuna are the more interestingand beautifulof the two. Just my opinion. Thank you!

[@elivoorhees7075]

The 435 is pretty impressive! I really love the mbuna tank ! I was thinking about starting a large one soon !

[@CichlidCharmer]

Hello Ian! Thank you. Yes you would get a kick out of those mbuna. So funny how much of the time it looks like I have no fish in the tank.

[@rara5212]

You absolutely can freeze your dry food. What is very important by doing this, is to make sure it has already room temperature BEFORE you open it to avoid condensation!😊

[@tylerplante7073]

Definitely wanna see the zucchini feeding. Great video🤟

[@CichlidCharmer]

lol, thank you!

[@jeremymoore450]

CC, Great video and I love how you mix the food and really care about those fish. The northfin food is great food. I feed a combo of Extreme and Omega one fish foods. I feed cichlid flakes to my CA / SA fish and than I feed them a mixture of cichlid pellets from omega one and Extreme. My two Severums are slow eaters and don’t really like the sinking pellets. They sink to fast so I feed them hikari floating cichlid gold pellets. Since Severums need more of a vegetable diet than more protein. The two Severums a turquoise and a gold spotted are growing like little weeds. Very personable also. I recommend a Severums for your tank if you don’t have one already. They will almost eat out of your hand and look at you with there little eyes. lol. My chocolate cichlid used to do the same thing swim on an angle all the time. Once they get bigger it should change. Mine doesn’t do it anymore. She actually will eat the pellets at the top or go for the pellets at the bottom. It all depends how she feels. But I love her and how she changes colors all the time. I named her Hershey before I knew she was a girl. lol. I might need a new name. 😂. My green terror was the more timid of the CA / SA cichlids. He would let food go right past him. He’s lazy and wants the food to come to him so he stays at the bottom. When I feed I have to feed both sides of the tank to spread the food around so it can be dispersed for all to eat. I also have some catfish at the bottom that they get all the leftover pellets and flakes that the fish don’t eat. Not sure if you have any catfish in the bottom of your tanks. I recommend some they are great cleanup crews and cute. Appreciate the video and dang I wish I lived near North Dakota. I would take the angels off your hands. lol. Although I haven’t had much luck with younger angels staying alive for some reason. All my fish are fine but there have been certain breeds of fish I haven’t been able to keep alive and it’s frustrating when they die. Makes you wonder what you did. I tried German blue rams. They died. I tried Angels and they died. Among a few other species that I wouldn’t waste money on it seems. My nano fish also get extreme nano pellets and omega one flakes. All the fish eat well. IMO.

[@CichlidCharmer]

You really know your stuff. I mean I already knew you did, but it’s great hearing you talk about your experience. My severum is a mouth brooding severum. It’s a very reluctant eater. Maybe I’ll try some flakes. I don’t have any catfish, because I want to get geos, and I don’t want them to compete for leftovers. But you’re right - they are cute.

[@michaelsnyder3577]

What!? The best part about hand feeding is when they draw blood! XD

[@CichlidCharmer]

Oh you've got some big ones! Very cool 😎

[@michaelsnyder3577]

@@CichlidCharmer Haha, you know it! Great content brother.

[@CichlidCharmer]

@@michaelsnyder3577 Thank you so much 🤩

[@MiamiObi]

You MTS is getting worse 🤣🤣🤣. Always love your videos.

[@CichlidCharmer]

It certainly is. Now I keep looking for tank opportunities in the garage lol. Thank you!

[@davonne58]

Great! Guess I better go get that bag of cichlid food I just got out of the freezer 😅 I was torn between getting northfin again and Ron's. I decided to try rons this time since I have a mixed tank and it specifies haps,peacocks, and mbuna. We shall see.

[@CichlidCharmer]

I think Ron's is great food. I mix some in with the Northfin sometimes.

[@thuanngo3277]

Hey man what your job outside fish keeping and nice video!!

[@CichlidCharmer]

I'm a photographer and I work at Costco. Thank you!

[@sabdelgadir]

Extreme Big Fella, Omega Cichlid pellete, bug bites, and NLS extreme red and veggie pellets are my go-to. Omega is so underrated. I do not premix, but rather I change what I feed every day

[@CichlidCharmer]

Sounds like an awesome buffet

[@HapiPETSWM]

My sharks don’t go at eachother, but they will freak out and take off like a missile into the glass wall or any decoration in the tank and that’s where they often will get hurt and leave scratches and even gouges out. The best way to feed them is dipping my entire arm let them explore my arm and hand and slowly, slower than paint drying open my hand revealing the food and they will even out of my hand… also they’re catfish with a bad name because of fin lol 😂, bala or tri colour same thing despite that’s it’s a barb… lol. Personally if I could have a 12 x 6 x 6 tank I’d keep them but ENOUGH about me lol. I love your set ups and especially how all your fish are great looking. I honestly have too many tanks to be too specific about feeding other than morning and evening other than my Jewel cichlid fry, which if I skip any meals the smallest one will get eaten… that tank gets fed basically every time I walk by.

[@CichlidCharmer]

I always love your comments 🥰. So funny about your sharks. Thank you about my fish - I’m really happy with most of them. My last panda uarus didn’t do too well, but I ordered two more from Houston Aqua, and they look much better so far. Thanks again!

[@BAcHIGU_]

Why does it seem like the Centrals grew so fast! That female Salvini is look stunning!

[@CichlidCharmer]

They really are growing, but the Oscar is the fastest so far.

[@nickeverett358]

Sir, Apologize if I just missed it but where did you get your Blue Texas Cichlid? It looks absolutely amazing. Thanks, Nick

[@CichlidCharmer]

Thank you. All of these guys are from imperial tropicals in the 435.

[@davejenkins4534]

My Mbuna dont retreat to their lil caves until the lights go down. Even when I turn on the kitchen lights a couple lil nut jobs look to see whats up. Mainly my Bumblebee and my red zebra ob. lol

[@fishwateraquatics]

Would be cool to put an insect in the American tank to see if the chocolate cichlid will eat it! Great vid:)

[@CichlidCharmer]

Yes! Thank you!

[@ARod-br2ui]

I have a situation similar to yours. I have to feed herbivore flakes and pellets for one tropheus that I have in my 150. But I also have mbuna in there as well as peacocks and haps, OB’s. Three days out of the week the morning feedings will consist of food for herbivores. The remainder of the feedings will be a high protein pellet. Every one seems to be thriving so far.

[@CichlidCharmer]

Sounds like live got a working system for your bit jobs 😂. Thanks for watching and for the comment!

[@andreacasoli3371]

Since my fishes are not very big i only feed them once a day with some generic food, a tablet specific for cories, and a tablet for plecos, during the weekend i feed them a specific food made for cichlids

[@paulouzman7267]

I still have some 1mm NF veggie pellets that i feed my bottom dwellers, but NF isn't officially supplied in the UK, and the one independent has stopped supplying. Also fed Kelp wafers, but my supply has been exhausted. NF need to set up a UK distributor as I'm sure they would sell well here.

[@nigelcox5029]

Hello good day what are your thoughts on Vieja Cichlids? These days the attractive colours of these fishes just blow my mind.

[@CichlidCharmer]

Oh just that I love them! Viejas are awesome. Love all the different ones.

[@hossaquatics1600]

True parrot is a true hoss

[@dennispeleg7843]

My chocolate does the same lol. My Oscar and geophagus Sveni are my biggest pigs!

[@CichlidCharmer]

Funny chocolates! I could see them being the biggest pigs for sure.

[@stefanosahretis5075]

Hi mate, I feed pre soaked north fin consisting of 6mm jumbo, 3mm cichlid community 3mm krill pro 3mm veggie all mixed together . One teaspoon per day with one day no food to clean out. Have noticed a big difference to fish since pre soaking pellets as bloating has been a problem. My African cichlids range from 3inch to 12inch most of them are 5-7inch . I have 2 clown loaches with one of these being 7inch long and both love north fin including 4 synodontis petricola catfish 4-5 inch . Song by Gorillaz

[@CichlidCharmer]

Hi Stefanos! You sound like you have a good thing going. Love Northfin. You’re the first I’ve seen guess the song. Well done 🤘

[@cichlids253]

I feed exclusively souther delight for pellets the fish also get night crawlers and frozen brine shrimp as well I live those wood pieces I think I seen a video where they are fake but what would a real version be spider wood ?

[@CichlidCharmer]

Thank you. You know I am not sure what the real type of wood would be if you’re talking about the 180 with the vertical logs. Actually, I would t even know if you were talking about any of my fake wood lol

[@adammcmahon6970]

@@cichlids253 nice to hear about SD. What blend do you feed?

[@cichlids253]

@@adammcmahon6970 small cichlid large cichlid and growth gonna try powerfeed next

[@jbravo7505]

Do you still have the synodontis catfish ?

[@CichlidCharmer]

I do not 😥

[@Shadow-wn5fw]

I have four synodontis catfish in my all male mbuna tank. The only change that I have made to my feeding routine is adding a couple of veggie wafers. They will eat almost anything.

[@favarets]

I’m in the uk and use origin Malawi Hap & Peacock food Bundle For my haps and peacocks Do you still use TDO? If not why In the uk tdo is really expensive Was thinking for trying it

[@CichlidCharmer]

I haven't used TDO for a while, but it's good food, and I do think it will boost the reds in your fish.

[@tonyarrington8364]

I have a question for you, do you think 2 much protein is bad for predator haps? Like malawi hawk, gar or trout?

[@CichlidCharmer]

They like a lot of protein. I feed mine cichlid pellets and try to give them some raw shrimp once per week and a veggie day with some blanched zucchini.

[@Unbrandedyt]

Would you consider doing a fancy convict chichild tank? (blood parrot chichild /polar blue blood parrot chichild)

[@Unbrandedyt]

Also do you know if I can keep angelfish with polar parrots?

[@CichlidCharmer]

Unfortunately I'm not a fan of those parrots. I had a true parrot that is a completely different fish.

[@pollylewis9611]

The Good The Bad and The Ugly, we'll just say you have a lot of gold in your saddlebag haha, OK you have me on the other movie I'm wracking this old brain and can't remember, lol. Oh boy what do I feed my spoiled brats, it's a cluster of slop-Northfin and also Ron's Cichlid pellets and flakes (some of my guys are too stupid to figure out pellets they just watch them go by), veggies wafers, throw in some fresh brine shrimp, I also have frozen ones when I'm out of fresh since I'm feeding tons of fry now. For the fry let's see....fresh baby brine shrimp, Ron's Cichlid fry pellets, Hikari First Bites, New Life Spectrum Powder, live vinegar eels and infusoria like I say a cluster right. OH, your fry are looking too cute so ok you are a great fish keeper! Thank you for another great video and awesome info to help us crazy Nut Job keepers!

[@CichlidCharmer]

You feed a lot of variety which is awesome! I should be feeding my fry all those things. I’m stretched a little thin right now, but I’m still having fun. Fish keeping nut jobs 😂🤩

[@pollylewis9611]

@@CichlidCharmer I feed so much diff. food because I'm trying to figure out what's the best to keep these little turds alive. Knock on wood they all are still going strong, but then what to do with 100-200 teenager fish yikes! You have beautiful fish and tanks so that means you are doing everything right. Fun is what it is all about my friend having fun.

[@Shadow-wn5fw]

Question for you. Do you store your cichlids food in the fridge after you open them or just put them in a ziplock bag?

[@CichlidCharmer]

So I used to put the dry food in the freezer once opened, but the owner of Northfin confirmed that it's better to just leave it in a cool, dry place. That's what I do now. The food I mix with garlic guard goes in the fridge.

[@Shadow-wn5fw]

Love the look of the glimpse of your 240 gallon aquarium lid.

[@terrionabailey1595]

Is it better to feed your fish sinking pellets instead of floating pellets? If so then why? Just curious because all of your food is sinking. Plus, I know floating food can causes bloating.

[@CichlidCharmer]

I soak mine in garlic guard, vitachem and water so they don't expand in their bellies, so they would probably sink even if they wouldn't normally. Otherwise, I think it's mainly Walmart your fish like. I have a chocolate cichlid that prefers floating food. Always looking up, that guy.

[@mitymac]

i picked up a couple zebra obliques & had to seperate them during quarantine.... you think they will be ok together once they go in a big tank? or shouldnt i even dare try it 🤔

[@gcarterer]

Likly no.. sounds like 2 males.

[@CoralMan24]

how do you store the food after you make it for the week?

[@CichlidCharmer]

I just put it in the fridge

[@romaineblake5704]

Do you not use TDO Chroma Boost anymore?

[@CichlidCharmer]

I have some but I I rarely use it. It’s still good food though and boosts the reds quite a bit

[@christopherball6507]

Clint Eastwood by the Gorillaz

[@CichlidCharmer]

Bam. Perfect.

[@Dominic-dg2vf]

Actually the yellow labb eats alot of meat to in the wild. I mix them to with haps and Peacocks.

[@CichlidCharmer]

It's worked well for me!

[@dragonball-md4ds]

How do you make the water so pure?😢

[@CichlidCharmer]

Just good filtration, keeping the panels clean, etc. I do have a few videos about it though.

[@stlshrk]

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

[@CichlidCharmer]

Nice

[@NavarroGustavo-c7z]

I got sunshine in a bag ( Gorillaz) 😬😬😬

[@CichlidCharmer]

Well done.

[@NavarroGustavo-c7z]

@@CichlidCharmer new subscriber love your fish sarcasm keep it up great channel

[@CichlidCharmer]

@@NavarroGustavo-c7z Thank you!

[@alonsoluqueno1291]

Buen día, ¿a los mbuna les das de comer camarón?. Saludos desde México y éxito!!

[@CichlidCharmer]

I do not. Too much protein except Icarus gets some - the yellow lab in Alcatraz.

[@alonsoluqueno1291]

@@CichlidCharmer GRACIAS!!!

[@davonne58]

I've seen people feeding their fish finely chopped fresh garlic to cure or prevent illness in leiu of buying products. Have you, (or anyone here) tried this on their cichlids??

[@CichlidCharmer]

That seems like a very viable and inexpensive option. Maybe mash it into a paste and stir it in with some dechlorinayed water. Why didn't I think of that? Brilliant.

[@adammcmahon6970]

Do you still feed Ron’s. Thoughts on Ron’s?

[@CichlidCharmer]

I do have some Ron's that I mix in sometimes. It's also good food.

[@adammcmahon6970]

@@CichlidCharmer we feed a mix of Ron’s Mbuna with NLS Thera a. Two great pellets

[@sarahm-qe7se]

what type of water ?

[@CichlidCharmer]

What do you mean?

[@sarahm-qe7se]

@@CichlidCharmer sorry i am from Saudi arabia maybe my english not that good, i mean when you put water on food is it bottled water like normal one

[@CichlidCharmer]

​Oh I use dechlorinated water. Bottled water would be good, but I use filtered water from the fridge. ​@@sarahm-qe7se

[@sarahm-qe7se]

@@CichlidCharmer thank you so much

[@CichlidCharmer]

@@sarahm-qe7se You're welcome 😀

[@Native_ichthyology]

Jujupari isn't geophagus, it's genus is satanoperca

[@CichlidCharmer]

It is actually both a geophagus with the scientific name Satanoperca Jurupari.

[@Native_ichthyology]

@@CichlidCharmer technically yes.. They both dig in sand/ mud, soo :)

[@CichlidCharmer]

@@Native_ichthyology I used to think the jurupari was the only eartheating cichlid when I was a kid. Imagine my surprise when I found out there's a whole world of these crazy sand-sifters. I was blown away. Love them all, even the non-geophagus ones like the Africans. So cool.

[@Native_ichthyology]

@@CichlidCharmer hahahaha yepp.. Me too...but honestly, i prefer daemons.. They're most stunning looking out there... How's their price there in general though?

[@CichlidCharmer]

@@Native_ichthyology My Jurupari was around $20 at the LFS. I think they're about the same online, too.

[@themarkedman72]

gorillaz

[@CichlidCharmer]

Well done.

[@themarkedman72]

@@CichlidCharmer Damon Albarn is a great songwriter, love Blur as well.