i have about 80 cichlids all up not counting the babies, it costs me about $30 a week or so on feeding, and i dunno why i have so many, i suppose you can never have enough cichlids lol, nah, but really it was this, i couldnt handle just haveing one or two of them i wanted the best of the best in cichlids and that ment having alot of differnt large ones.