electric yellows carniverous

[Metageologist]

some thing odd i have noticed with my electric yellow cichlids in the past week they have started eating my MTS snails i think this is rather odd sine they are supose to be vegitarians if im not mistaked any insight would be appreciated

additionaly all my mekii look to be pregant but they are only 6 months old i belaeve they dont reach maturity till 1 year again any insight is appreciated

[kaybee]

Electric yellow labs are more a omnivorous species than herbivorous species, adapted more toward consuming microcrustaceans than algae-grazing. However, even the most herbivorous mbuna species will display opportunistic feeding tendencies.

In the wild, the algae-grazing mbuna species (which the yellow lab is not) will consume microfauna along with the plant matter they eat.

[Metageologist]

thanks for the input this is the forst time i have seen them do this in the year that i have had them

[Gemstone]

:hmm3grin2orange: they are omnivores...i.o.w. they eat plant as well as animal material....

try feeding them some blood worm once of twice a week...frozen or freeze dried is fine...although I personally prefer feeding the frozen to my fish...I sometimes just pop the frozen piece into their tank..or if I'm not too lazy...I pop it into a tumbler of tank water so that it can thaw out..and then pour it into their tank...they love it.