"I've had great success using this food with lots of different fishes over the years. One shoal of tinfoil barbs (cyprinids, not cichlids) grew so large (as in 8 inches--I know, they're not supposed to get that big) I had to get rid of them. They had beautiful deep orange and black stripes on their tails, which lightened when they were cycled off this food and darkened when they were back on it."