Baby senegal bichir food

[TigerBarbs]

WHat should i feed my 5 inch senegal bichir? Right now i feed him frozen blood worms and he loves them but im not sure what else.

 

[Aski247]

Hikari sinking carnivore pellets. Small size. This also should be the staple of it's diet with blood worms and shrimp a couple a times a week.

I feed mine the pellets daily, and two days a week he gets frozen blood worms and shrimp.

Good luck with them, they truly are a great fish. I'm watching mine as I posted this. 

 

[Aquatic_Adam]

It is also fun to watch their predatory behavior, so I feed mine some live nightcrawlers from time to time. If yours is only 5 inches you can cut the crawlers and he will eat them. But other than that I feed mine hikari sinking carnivore pellets and some NLS sinking pellets. They are probably my favorite kind of fish! Can never have too many polypterus keepers!

 

[TigerBarbs]

Should I dig up the nightcrawlers or buy them at walmart because they have live ones for fish bait for cheap

 

[Toirtis]

Fish bait nightcrawlers are usually good....anything you catch, make sure is coming from land untouched by chemical fertilizers/pesticides/etc.

 

[Fishguy2727]

I only feed and recommend NLS. I don't do any live foods unless the fish is absolutely refusing prepared foods.

 

[TigerBarbs]

What's NLS???????

 

[Pizentios]

What's NLS???????

a brand of prepaired fish food. Everybody raves about it....haven't tried it myself as none of the stores around here carry it.

 

[Fishguy2727]

Ditto. It is called New Life Spectrum.

 

[TigerBarbs]

Ok cool and what kind/size should I get for tiger barbs and a 5 inch bichir??

 

[Fishguy2727]

How big are the tiger barbs? I prefer to feed slightly larger pellets because they can help keep aggressive feeders occupied so they can't simply gorge on all the food (tiger barbs). I would feed them the 2mm pellets and the bichirs could take 3mm, larger as it grows.

 

[TigerBarbs]

The barbs are bout 2 inches

 

[TigerBarbs]

Will nightcrawlers have any diseases or anything that will be harmful to the bichir

 

[Fishguy2727]

They are alive so there is always the potential of introducing something, but since they are not a fish that risk is much less than feeding feeder fish. I still wouldn't do it. There is nothing in worms that is needed and can't be provided by a more nutritionally complete and balanced high quality pellet.

 

[TigerBarbs]

Ok thanks fishguy! I'm gonna try the NLS

 

[fort384]

Please read the sticky in the Freshwater & Brackish - Fish or Plant Profiles forum:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f29/what-goes-in-this-forum-151203.html

I have moved this thread to Freshwater & Brackish - General Discussion

 

[TigerBarbs]

Omega 1 shrimp pellets are awesome! I started feeding them to my bichir almost a month ago and he loves them and he grown about 3 inches since! His brownish color is a little darker now and his spots are more distinct. They're amazing

 

[D9VIN]

Guppies! I had one for a while and he kept my guppies under control. Grew him from about 2 inches up to about 8 and then sold him, needed some tank space. Be careful if you have anything with small holes in it, mine got stuck in my cholla wood a few times before I finally removed it.

 

[Bully405Customz]

We feed our little chopped up pieces of earthworms and he loves them!

 

[TigerBarbs]

Do you find the worms in your yard?