Re: live food?

Chances are, they will go crazy for either live worms (such as blood worms
or black worms) or small fish.

Jonathan

"wayne p" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I was wondering if there is a live food I could feed to my cichlids as
> a treat? I have a 55 gallon tank with about 15 cichlids at about 3 or
> 4 inches long.I feed them cichlid flakes,african sinking pellets or
> staple floating type pellets rotating them every couple of days so
> each is happy.Every once and awile as a treat I offer them krill
> crumbleing it for them.They love it.I have tried to make the tank
> enviroment as natural as possible with many stones arranged as caves
> and real plants that most seem to play and hide in and around and a
> couple of others that stop at nothing to pull each plant up.I'm new at
> this and have had this tank for about a year.I guess becouse I want it
> as natural as possible I wonder often what most (wild) cichlids
> eat.Most of mine are african with a couple of jack
> dempseys,convicts,electric yellow,electric blue and a 5 or 6 inch
> algae eater to help clean up.Thanks for any advice.