Maybe we can all start a thread explaining your favorite choice of food, why, and what results we can expect. I am curious to see what people say, I have only used a couple of different foods since i started.
I'll start:

My base diet through out the fish room is HBH 4 flake frenzy which is basically a mix of high protein, vegie etc... and contains an allround diet for pretty well any african. I like it becuase of the high nutrition it provides the fish, and the price is still very low as i buy it at 12$ a pound which is a pretty big bag and lasts me 3 weeks or so. I would say it is an all round great base diet as it caters to most africans (with the exception of of your odds and ends such a tropheus) as it caters to the veggie eaters such as mbuna, aswell as the protein for frontosa and great for any malawi.

Teh food my fish like the most is tetra color bits/ granules, I know it is a discuss food, but man I get good color and never have had a problem with anything food related. If I try the big named foods, my fish don't eat it, and it sits in my stand till I finally trade it away. Have tried dianichi, nls, lots of brands always the same result. the only other one they liked nearly enough to buy again was a spirulina based pellet, small size.. surprisingly they wouldn't eat the medium pellet? For my puffer in the tank with the rest of the mix I feed freeze dried jumbo shrimp. My fish go through the 10.5 oz container of the color bits in 3 weeks time

I tried several different brands before I started feeding New Life Spectrum (NLS). A five pound bucket costs about $50 and lasts almost forever.

I pretty much feed it exclusively with an occasional addition of fresh veggies like leaf lettuce and zucchini.

Sometimes I'll get samples of other fish foods and will feed it like a treat, but I haven't come across anything special.

I prefer feeding the pellets, but all of my fish will eat anything that I put into their tanks with the exception of the medicated food.

Mbuna: NLS Cichlid and HBH Veggie flake.

Haps: NLS Cichlid and an occasional frozen brine shrimp with spirulina. A little Tetra Spirulina flake for a couple of smaller guys who prefer it.

Well, we used to feed HBH African Cichlid Attack, until the recall.

But we've always supplemented with a combination of Nutrafin Basix Cichlid flake and HBH Veggie Flake.

I plan to try the new soft and moist HBH soon, I just have to remember to pick some of it up.

We've tried other foods, more expensive foods, but I've never been overly impressed with any of them.

Kim

Kim, I have tried the HBH soft & moist. The fish really liked it, but I had the spirulina variety and it turned my water blue/green. It might have been because I had so many fish in the tank, that it took a lot of pellets to feed them all.

Oh, and don't do what I did and not close the lid all the way - my soft & moist became hard & dry! Blush

I used to feed NLS exclusively to both mbuna and haps with great results.
Now to save a couple of bucks I feed HBH veggie to my mbuna and HBH Cichlid Attack to my haps. I have seen no affects to my fish from using the Attack pellets and will probably continue to use them. I bought the stuff about 6 months ago bulk from Kensfish so I am assuming it was before the food additive scare. BTW I've added some Aceii to my hap tank and they also eat the the Attack pellets with no ill effects yet.

Dave, I was feeding Cichlid Attack, as well. When the recall came out, the container I had was only about a month old, so I took it back. Coincidentally or not, I lost some wild caughts while feeding that container to them...I'm pretty sure it wasn't the food, since I don't have a great history with wild caughts. Blush

They haven't put it back on the shelves here, but when they do I will probably buy another container. I really love the HBH products.

Kim

All of my fish get NLS. The only group that gets anything else as a suppliment is the Mpimbwe gibbs that occasionally get brine shrimp or krill. The trophs, lamps, julis, cyps, etc. all THRIVE on NLS and just love it. Many of them have come to ignore flake (mostly the lamps). I do feed NLS flake to fry until they are large enough to eat NLS Grow. Just IME.

Let's see, for the last 12 week i have bin using some samples that i have bin getting from a supplier . They want me to sell it for them. They supple a lot of the fish farms in the U.S and they supple some of our fish farms.

I have all my client fish on this food and they love it. I would have to buy it in bulk .
I would think it would be hard for me to sell there food that isn't in a nice package and have a brand name on it .

Strictly NLS here. Good Job

Tropheus get strictly NLS now, although I have fed them HBH veggie flake at times in the past.

Tangs get almost daily frozen mysis shrimp or (less often) frozen bloodworms, a bit of NLS, a smaller amount of HBH Soft and Moist (which I drop in directly in front of the one Malawian, my peacock, whose color seems to benefit from it), and a very tiny occasional amount of cyclop-eez flake (more of a treat).

Angel/Fancy Pleco tank gets mostly NLS, small feedings of frozen mysis or bloodworms a few times a week, sometimes a bit of OSI Angel Flake, a very, very tiny amount of Cyclop-eez flake (as a treat), and nightly NLS wafers for the plecos.

HBH Rainbow Color Flake
&
HBH Color Bright Flake

I feed mostly NLS and NLS growth , also, Kens brine shrimp flake and tropheus flake, omega one spirolina flake, and occasional veggies.
I ran into someone selling Afro Tropical Krill Plus flake, they claim it's the best (and who dosn't) I can't find any info on it, anyone know anything?

I'm a big fan of peanut butter sandwiches myself. On the Floor Laughing

My experiment with feeding HBH pellets is coming to an end. They are a fine food but the increase in waste on the tank bottom has convinced me to switch back to NLS. In a few short weeks I have noticed a decrease in waste that needs to be vacced up with my weekly cleaning. I'm assuming it is due to the food having less indigestible components to it.

Well i have just got my malawi cichlids a few days ago and i am using Ocean Nutrition's (ON) Cichlid Omni Flakes and ON Cichlid Deluxe pellets, looks like i'm the only one :blink: ...will let everyone know how its goes in the future, HOPEFULLY if i remember roll eyes

I've never been disappointed in any Ocean Nutrition products, geelite.

Kim

Nice one Kim, i was expecting to hear the opposite from everyone...just a stupid feeling Giggly

The fish seem to like it Now this should be good!