Color Max

A well-balanced formula designed for both vibrant color and long-term health. This food can be confidently fed to all types of cichlids, including Tropheus, Mbuna, Peacocks, Haps, Central and South American Cichlids and even works exceptionally well for many marine fish species. Enhanced with natural ingredients like spirulina, beet, and carrot, this formula supports strong immunity, healthy digestion, steady growth, and rich natural coloration.
If you keep multi-colored fish such as Peacocks, Haps or American Cichlids this is one of the best choices for bringing out their full potential. The combination of spirulina and astaxanthin helps intensify reds, blues, yellows, and overall contrast while maintaining excellent digestibility, making it an ideal everyday food for both display tanks and breeding colonies.
This is one of Shef’s own custom-developed formulas, created through years of hands-on experience breeding and raising high-quality African cichlids. We personally feed this formula to our own bloodlines daily with outstanding results. Fish thrive on it with improved vitality, enhanced color, stronger immune systems, and healthy development.
What makes Shef’s Formula different from mass-produced commercial foods?
Most commercial fish foods are manufactured through high-heat extrusion processes that can exceed 300°F, causing the loss of many sensitive nutrients. Shef’s Formula is air-dried instead, preserving the nutritional value of every ingredient and additive included in the formula. This allows your fish to receive nutrition closer to what nature intended and helps them reach their true genetic potential.
Unlike many store-bought foods, this formula already includes carefully selected vitamins, natural additives, and nutrient-rich ingredients, so there is no need to add extra supplements separately. Just feed with confidence and watch your fish thrive.
Additives by Shef:
Spirulina, Moringa,Beet,Epsom salt,Garlic,Vitamins and Minerals, Amino Acids, Probiotics,Turmeric,Astaxanthin.
Main Ingredients:
Fish meal, Krill meal, Squid meal, wheat flour,Potatoe starch,tapioca starch,corn starch, Fish oil,Calcium carbonate, Betaine, Soy lecithin, Calcium phosphate,
Licorice plant, Wheat germ.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min)…....48.0%
Crude Fat (min).......12.0%
Crude Fiber (max)........3.0%
Calcium (min)....... 2.3%
Phosphorous..... 1.5%