What Feeds on a Ram Cichlid
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What do blue rams eat?
Wrtbrgr87
- #1
I have a blue ram I got 3 days ago and he despises flake food. I feed my gourami flake food and put a little extra in for the cories to supplement their diet of sinking wafers. The blue ram puts flakes in his mouth, chews a bit, then spits them back out like he's saying "yuck!" What exactly do they eat? I looked at the cichlid pellets but they're all too big for a small 1 inch blue ram. He will eat frozen bloodworms, but I want to get him on something a bit more healthy. What do you suggest?
MissMTS
- #2
Bloodworms, brine shrimp, and pellets soaked in garlic (you can get small ones for community fish by Omega One) should all work. He may also just be adjusting to his new home. Often fish take a while to acclimate to their surroundings and take a few days to start eating. Give him some time and he should come around
Nutter
- #3
Excellent advice above. They are pretty partial to daphnia as well.
Wrtbrgr87
- Thread Starter
- #4
So will he always just spit out the flake food? Should I try cichlid pellets? I want something that is a good, cheap staple instead of always feeding fattening frozen foods.
Zc668
- #5
I have also purchased 2 blue rams 3 days ago. They do not go all the way to the top of the tank. They both swim up the side of the tank near the top then swim back down. The only way for them to eat tropical fish flakes is for me to sink rather large flakes to the bottom of the tank. They then pick up the flake in their mouth and chew and spit it out. They repeat this process about 3-5 times until most of the flake is gone. Is there a reason they will not go all the way to the top to eat? They watch my 2 silver tipped tetras eat at the top yet they do not bother going up there to feed.
Nutter
- #6
Rams are a bottom to mid water dweller so it's pretty rare for them to go to the surface for anything, including food. It can take some patience to get them onto flake or pellet foods. Try soaking the flakes/pellets in a cup with some tank water before adding them to the tank. This way they will sink straight down ito their feeding zone. If after a week or two they still don't want to eat the flakes, try soaking them in some garlic juice or switching to a different brand of flakes. You should still feed them frozen foods once or twice a week as this is very good for their overall health & helps to keep their colours nice & vivid.
Zc668
- #7
I'm still kind of new to tropical fish. Should I feed my rams a separate food and keep my tetras on flakes? I also try to vary their diet with freeze dried bloodworms. The bloodworms are kind of hard to get to sink and the rams won't really go after the sinking food. They wait until the food has been sitting there and they nibble on it. Also will they eat algae wafers?
GaryS
- #8
Diet for rams
HI I have kept blue rams in a 29 gallon planted tank. After acclimation, they at everything. If their color is OK, keep them eating the frozen and slowly introduce quality cichlid food like tetra bits. try other frozen such as daphia, brine shrimp of course small quantities.I have a blue ram I got 3 days ago and he despises flake food. I feed my gourami flake food and put a little extra in for the cories to supplement their diet of sinking wafers. The blue ram puts flakes in his mouth, chews a bit, then spits them back out like he's saying "yuck!" What exactly do they eat? I looked at the cichlid pellets but they're all too big for a small 1 inch blue ram. He will eat frozen bloodworms, but I want to get him on something a bit more healthy. What do you suggest?
hope thI is useful.
Gary
Jaysee
- #9
They ought to be fed cichlid food, which has a higher protien content than regular flake food. If the pellets are too big, you can presoak them in tank water. Once they've softened up, the rams will be able to eat it.
Also, hikarI makes cichlid pellets of all sizes. I believe baby pellets are the smallest, which a 1 inch fish will have no trouble with.
Wrtbrgr87
- Thread Starter
- #10
They ought to be fed cichlid food, which has a higher protien content than regular flake food. If the pellets are too big, you can presoak them in tank water. Once they've softened up, the rams will be able to eat it.Also, hikarI makes cichlid pellets of all sizes. I believe baby pellets are the smallest, which a 1 inch fish will have no trouble with.
The ones I found were only the floating type and they're the minI cichlid pellets. In order to make them sink I soak them for 10 minutes in aquarium water, then squish it between my fingers to make it sink. It seems like the blue ram is scared of the food at first. Is this normal?
Jaysee
- #11
The ones I found were only the floating type and they're the minI cichlid pellets. In order to make them sink I soak them for 10 minutes in aquarium water, then squish it between my fingers to make it sink. It seems like the blue ram is scared of the food at first. Is this normal?
It could smell funny if oils and what not from your fingers are transferred to the food in the squishing process
kwesdog
- #12
I have about 10 rams and they feed anywhere. They never came to the top at first but after 2-3 weeks they see me coming to the tank and they all race to the top because they know its feeding time. Give them time and they will get to know you and their surroundings and feed anywhere.
Harry
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