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Hi, I recently got the following 2 granule products from Sera and fed these to my clown and yoyo loaches. They seem to love it just as much, if not more than the tetrabits I normally feed them.

However, I noticed that these are made specifically for Discus/Cichlids, hence I was wondering if they were suitable to be fed to loaches? I understand there is a lot of nutrition and protein in these foods, but wont feed them to my loaches if it is not advised.


- Sera Discus Granules
Taken from the box:
Granulated food for discus.
The highest quality product in the sera granulated food range. sera discus granules were developed especially for discus and other cichlids with extensive nutritional requirements.
Regularly feeding this high quality, vitamin and protein-rich staple food improves the growth and colour of all young and adult discus."

- Sera Granured
Taken from the box:
Granulated food for carnivorous fish.
Protien-rich granulated food for all mainly carnivorous cichlids, e.g., from Lake Malawi And Lake Tanganyika. The intestines of these fish are designed for easy-to-digest and protein-rich foods (e.g., fish and small invertebrates).
Fishery products, shrimp meal, natural minerals and trace elements as well as the carotene-rich spirulina algae, make sera granumeat an ideal staple diet for all carnivorous ornamental fish. A well-balanced mlitivitamin complex with long-term stabilized vitamin C promotes vitality and the body's resistance to disease.

as long as you add some veggy things to their diet them foods will be fine.

mick

I don't see any problems as long as you alternate the feedings with a decent mixture. I also often use frozen cichlid malawi mix with good results.

Fish cannot read the label to see if it says Cichlid or Goldfish, or whatever.
However, you can read the ingredients and decide if it is a balanced diet.

I avoid foods that have fish meal (sweepings off the processing floor) or wheat. I look for foods that have whole fish and shellfish, spirulina algae and similar ingredients.

Rotating foods is the best way to give the fish a better chance at a balanced diet.

I feed all sorts of:
Flakes, pellets and wafers, such as Omega One and Spectrum,
Frozen worms and shrimp of several sorts, (Blood worms, Mosquito larvae, Daphnia, Tubifex, and enhanced Brine Shrimp)
Freeze Dried list similar to the frozen list,
Fresh fruits and vegetables, and fresh caught foods like aphids and earthworms.

Most of my tanks have a mix of fish that like different foods, so if one day I feed a heavy vegetable/algae sort of mix some carnivores may turn up their noses. The next day they may like to food choices better and gobble it up, while the other fish might get less.
Then too, the tanks are heavily planted and the fish can always nibble some algae or microorganisms the grow among the plants.