How to Feed Cichlid Properly

Feeding cichlid in aquarium, you need to notice several important tips, including water temperature, water quality requirement, feeding food, lighting control and disease prevention, etc. In order to make the aquarium breeding work successful from the start, FANWAY plans “golden rules” to eliminate the uncertain factors or accidental success from luck, which is a kind of natural rules ensuring to cultivate cichlids successfully. The rules, in other words, are to make fish and aquatic plant won healthy and vivacious life, and make the aquarium play its role.


Sand and Water Temperature in the Aquarium
Laying heating line at the bottom of aquarium can compel the heated water to ascend, thus making sand become a part of chemical and physical systems in the whole aquarium. With this heating system, temperature will evenly disperse to the aquarium, meanwhile the nutritive salt generated from sand can also flow along with water to leaf segment of water plants. And vice versa, when water flows into bottom sand, oxygen gas will enter bottom sand along with water flow, so sand can keep longer action time and avoid the substrate to darken.

Stable Water Quality 
As we know, in tropical waters, the water quality of fast flowing water is always stable and some water quality factors, like PH value, carbon dioxide content and hardness, rarely change. Neutral PH value is controlled by carbon dioxide addition, but this control should maintain the carbonate hardness at 3-4 degrees DH at any rate so as to guarantee necessary stability.

Fish Feeding in accordance with Cichlids
Only fish feed with high quality, high in vitamins and easy to digest can feed healthy and lively cichlids. Please note that the salt content of fish feed pellets must be very low because cichlids usually come from water area without salt. Otherwise, it’s very easy for cichlids to feel ill by suffering from intestinal diseases.

Tips: if you produce fish feed by yourself, please take notice of fish feed formulation and fish feed extruder you are using!

Suitable Lighting Intensity
According to the size and shape of aquarium, lighting control can use fluorescent tube, finsen lamp or metal halid lamp. Just using any of these light sources, it’s able to maintain natural colors of fish and good growth of aquatic plants, while its primary goal is to ensure the aquarium has appropriate amount of oxygen supply in daytime. Moreover, water plants also require a certain content of oxygen especially at dusk. Therefore, for fear that oxygen is not enough in night, you need to complement the oxygen in daytime by using the suitable lighting.

As the aquatic creature, it’s troublesome and difficult for cichlids to get treatment after illness, neither easy to inject medicine nor oral drugs, so it’s generally regarded that stress should be put on the prevention of cichlids disease. At the same time, Fanway suggests several tips during the process of prevention and treatment combination, achieving the disease prevention and earlier treatment for illness. 

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