DIY African Cichlids Fish Food Recipe

You can make your own DIY African Cichlids fish food with this easy recipe. Since there is so many bad African Cichlids DIY fish food recipes on the net I figured I would pass on Rich Stephenson's DIY African Cichlid recipe. A lot of the ingredients such as Carrots, Lettuce, Peas, Broccoli, Apricots, Tomatoes and Yams, Spinach are all really high in Beta-Carotene so those are all natural color enhancers.

First boil 1 Yam or sweet potato and 1 Zucchini and let it set while you prepare the rest of the ingredients and add to your food processor last. Make sure to take skin off first.

Add the following ingredients in your food processor.

1 Apple - cut in chunks first.

1 1/2 cups Broccoli or 8oz package frozen Broccoli

1 1/2 cups Romaine Lettuce ... I know hard to measure a good hearty handful will do.

1 - 8oz package of frozen Spinach .... I usually let it defrost for about a 1/2 hour before I prepare recipe.

1 - 8oz package Green Peas - blanched

Optional Ingredients:

1 Cup Red or Green Cabbage - use red to enhance fish with red colors

1 cup Red-Leaf Lettuce or Green-Leaf

1 Medium size Tomato

1 Kiwi

1 Apricot

1 Pear

1 Mango

1 Papaya

1 Peach

1 Bell Pepper

1 medium size Cucumber

1/2 pound shrimp

1/4 teaspoon Astaxanthin Powder - this will enhance the red colors in your fish. This can be found on ebay or yourfishstuff.com

1/4 teaspoon Beet Powder

1/4 teaspoon Paprika

2 tsp Minced Garlic - Why garlic you ask? Garlic is an additive for there immune system and helps them to fight off parasites, and over come stress naturally.

Now add all ingredients including the Yam and Zucchini to your food processor and blend until it's paste texture.

Now put all ingredients in a big bowl and add the following.

2 tsp of the spirulina powder - You can find it cheap on eBay

10 drops of the vita chem

1 cup of 100% all natural carrot juice.

Now you will prepare the Gelatin using agar agar powder. Don't use Knox gelatin as most DIY recipes tell you to use as Knox gelatin contains bones and is not easy for your fish to digest. I buy my agar agar powder on eBay and it is cheap and it does not contain ground up bones.

Boil 1 pint of water in a small saucepan. Stir in the 2 tablespoons agar agar powder and reduce the heat to a simmer. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring well so that the agar doesn’t stick on the bottom of the pan.

Now add to your bowl with the rest of the ingredients and mix well.

Now pour a good amount in zip lock baggies and flatten with your hand before you zip up the baggies. You will need about 10 to 12 zip lock baggies. Now you can stack them in your freezer on top of eachother.

I let the bag sit out a 1/2 hour before I feed the fish so it's easy to break off chunks and add to the tank.

This will last about 6 months for a fully stocked 60 gallon tank.

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How to Breed African Cichlids

Numerous aquarists like you like keeping cichlids in their fish tank on account of their distinctive shapes and vibrant shades. When long, simply having them in their aquarium is not enough, fish sweethearts need to breed cichlids without anyone else's help. Actually, cichlid reproducing is an intriguing methodology to watch in light of their parental conduct and profoundly formed rearing exercises. Cichlid rearing parental brood mind falls into one of three classes: open agonizing, hollow agonizing, and mouthbrooding.

Most African Cichlids are mouthbrooders. In different statements, the female African Cichlid will hold the eggs in their mouth. First and foremost, you need to get your reproducing state. Frequently, when a female cichlid is primed to mate, all the male cichlids will turn extremely forceful and will frequently battle over her. On the other hand, in the event that you have just a couple, the male may be excessively combative towards the one accessible female, bringing about anxiety and potential expiration. Rather, you might need to keep 3 females for each male in your cichlid tank. This will keep the guys occupied with pursuing numerous females and let the females an opportunity to recuperate from being pursued while reproducing.

The African Cichlids reproducing settlement will love to have an exceptional environment with more than enough buckles, rocks, racks and hole which they can pick as their domain and reproducing ground. Don't try to put any aquarium plants as they will be evacuated by the cichlids. It is correspondingly imperative to food your African Cichlids well to get them into their rearing condition. Spirulina chips and infrequent night crawler are great value nourishment for your African Cichlids.

While reproducing time comes, the male will pursue the female and it will do a mating move which comprises of shimmying before the female. The female will lay eggs and then pick them up in their mouth. The male will treat the eggs. This entire procedure is rehashed numerous times until the female loses engage and the male will pursue another rearing female and rehash the entire procedure once more.

Those unfertilized eggs will be discarded. The female cichlid will keep the prepared eggs in her mouth until they are incubated. This procedure can take in the ballpark of three to five weeks.

To keep the infant African Cichlids animated, it is imperative to exchange the female to a more modest tank soon after the toddler cichlids are conceived. If not, the mature person cichlids will consume them. The point when infants are born, move the infants to a fricassee tank soon after the mother cichlid consumes them.

For the child cichlids, you can nourish them with some fine powder type of piece sustenance. Interim, it is great to let the female cichlid recoup its health before putting her back in the tank. Likewise, attempt to keep the infants with cichlids of the same size, for fear that they end up being nourishment!

In conclusion, keeping and reproducing cichlids is an exceptionally fulfilling and testing interest. In this way, it is extremely essential that you know the insider facts of dealing with your cichlids. To study more about how to take true exceptional forethought of the aforementioned cichlids.

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