My cichlid has gone mad!

If you are going to feed your fish live guppies on a long-term basis, get a separate tank (29 gallons or so), buy some common guppies, and breed 'em yourself. Otherwise, you are just playing Russian roulette, waiting for the time when the feeders you bring home have some nasty disease or parasite, and your fish catches it while eating them.

Also, feeders are not particularly nutritious. Even in the wild, piscivorous fish generally supplement their diet with other items (shrimp, plants, etc.). So either feed your feeders with a high quality flake food just before adding them to the "tank of doom", or add some frozen bloodworms and plankton to the feeding regimen periodically.
 
Hey guy , it sounds like you`re the one that really wants him to eat live food . I`ve been keeping them for around 4 years and I
haven`t heard that they prefer live foods. They are notorious fry
predators , that`s one reason for their compressed body shape.
But mine has done great on a almost all pellet diet. Every so often I may give them some brine shrimp or blood worms as a
treat. They have taken to pellets so well , I know it is definately
more economical.
I`m on my second batch of fry from these fish, so if it ain`t
broke don`t fix it.

Keith
 
Good call, JulesK...the Alt. Lamp. doesn't need live food, so why not cut that back to a treat offering? It's not like his going after guppies will continue if he is well-fed, and the entertainment value of attacking live foods really isn't a good reason to have a fish. (You have to starve piranhas to get that nasty behaviour for which they are famed.)
 
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