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what do you feed your bichirs?


enzoom1

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Hey I bought a albino senegal ( :bounce: ) the other day and I was wondering what all you bichir keepers feed yours.

I bought a packet of hikari sinking carnivore pellets and some frozen fish meal.

So far all he/shes been eating is a block of the fish meal.

Any other suggestions on food?

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I have to feed mine in a similar way, he's just too slow and I have an Oscar.

I have a terracotta pot (wide and shallow) upside down on the bottom with a small entrance cut in the side (just big enough for my ornate to get in).

I drop the hikari pellets down some pipe into the pot via the drain hole in the bottom (now the top) he smells the food and goes to have a feed when he's ready.

The other thing to remember is Bichir's are nocturnal with an amazing sense of smell so you can just feed them after lights out.

Try and teach it to hand feed, I regret I didn't with my ornate...but it is hard with an oscar in the tank :roll:

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