JBL NovoTanganjika - 1L is a food for Tanganyika cichlids. JBL gives the target fish size as 5 to 20cm. It comes in a 1L pack.

Key Features

• Built for cichlids: a recipe aimed at fish that are territorial, greedy and quick to bloat on the wrong diet.
• Sinks as well as floats: cichlids feed through the whole water column, so food that only sits on the surface leaves some of them out.
• Sized for 5 to 20cm fish: JBL works this range out by body length, because mouth size is what decides whether a fish can actually eat a piece.
• 1L pack: pick a size you will get through in a few months rather than the biggest on the shelf.

How To Feed It

• Feed small amounts two or three times a day rather than one big meal. Fish have very short guts and do better on little and often.
• Give only what is cleared in two or three minutes. Anything still drifting after that will rot in the substrate and push your nitrate up.
• Net out the leftovers. Uneaten food is the usual reason a tank goes cloudy a day or two after feeding.
• A fasting day once a week does healthy adult fish no harm and gives the filter a chance to catch up.

Good To Know

• Overfeeding is behind most cloudy water and high nitrate. The food is rarely the problem; the amount almost always is.
• Keep the tub shut and somewhere cool and dry. Damp gets into fish food easily, and once it does the vitamins go and mould can follow.
• Buy a size you will finish inside a few months. A big tub left open for a year is a false economy.
• Match the piece size to the mouth. Anything a fish cannot swallow gets picked at, dropped and left in the gravel.
• Lake Malawi and Tanganyika fish are mostly vegetarian or omnivorous grazers. Too much protein is the usual cause of the bloating they are prone to.