Lungfish feeding

[dovii88]

i would like to know wat i should feed my lungfihsh..can i feed it anything or is it a specific diet that they should eat

[starrfish71]

I fed mine anything- including: live fish, frozen silversides, live shrimp, fresh shrimp, live crawfish, cichlid pellets, dog food pellets, algae wafers.... anything that remotely resembles food, they go after. He took to attacking the siphon when I did water changes.

What size is it? Long before Spike was 30+ inches, he was capable of eating a fully grown crawfish, no problem. I got him at about 8 inches- Spike was an African marbled lungfish... stopped hand feeding him at about ten inches when he got my finger- he let go when I yelled at him, but that was all the warning I needed :)

[dovii88]

hhaha nice story do you still have the lungfish... and also i believ the one i looked at is around 7-8 inches and i am picking him up on monday...

[USMCtanker]

i have one , had him for over a month, i dont think he has eaten at all. i have put all kinds of food in there. the temp and water are fine. he lays upside down movin and inch every couple of days. he goes days with out moving. i cant figure it out

[Steve_89]

I feed mine anything.

[Aquaman]

In nature the most lungfish are omnivorous, eating a variety of things such as water insects, fallen insects, molluscs including bivalves and snails, large crabs and prawn, and small fishes. It also eats plants.

[graysilm]

will they eat small mammals like mice?

[starrfish71]

Mine would not eat mice. I tried pinkies, because I had heard other people fed that to theirs.

Spike died about a year ago- I had him for 10 years- and he was in the shop I got him from for almost a year before that- what finally did him in was a fungal infection that we fought for about a year altogether. It was very insidious. He survived being chewed on by other fish- he lost part of his tail and his little feetsv in the back, but they eventually grew back- and he moved with me multiple times, and he jumped out a few times. It was a microscopic organism that killed him.

[kido]

i feed mine, shrimp, beefheart, mussels, anchovies and pellets.. i'd say they'd eat most anything you put in there ;)

[CrypticSins]

i would like to know wat i should feed my lungfihsh..can i feed it anything or is it a specific diet that they should eat

The one I had would not eat anything live. He was kinda stubborn about only eating fresh shrimp, squid, and octopus. I had live crawfish in with him one crawfish eve died, and the Lungfish never touched it. He was with a crawfish for over a year and the lungfish was 3ft long.. So I guess you might have to feel it out a lil.

[CrypticSins]

I fed mine anything- including: live fish, frozen silversides, live shrimp, fresh shrimp, live crawfish, cichlid pellets, dog food pellets, algae wafers.... anything that remotely resembles food, they go after. He took to attacking the siphon when I did water changes.

What size is it? Long before Spike was 30+ inches, he was capable of eating a fully grown crawfish, no problem. I got him at about 8 inches- Spike was an African marbled lungfish... stopped hand feeding him at about ten inches when he got my finger- he let go when I yelled at him, but that was all the warning I needed :)

Hmm, my lungfish never got hold of my finger, and I hand fed him.. : ) But mine was an African not marble.

[Dirty Fish]

Clayton my 22+" annectens eats jumbo shrimp and feeder fish.

[fenrisswolf]

Just stumbled upon this forum today, and I'm amazed at the number of fellow lungfish keepers!

I have a fairly young/small SAL, about 12" long at the moment. (Named "Nahualito" after a south american lake monster.)

I've been feeding him(/her? is there even an esay way to sex them?) a mix of small chopped shrimp & bloodworms, and at his size I thought I'd try to introduce some live food to his tank.

Besides small snails, I've been considering adding some feeder guppies to the tank to serve as both food supply & "active decoration" to an otherwise fairly dull tank. (My SAL is awesome in its own right, but not always active while I'm around to see him.)

From what I've seen here, it seems I should also get some algae wafers to round off his diet a little more.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

[fenrisswolf]

Well, I managed to get a few endler's, so I'll see how that works out.

I hink I'll try and breed some, and put the rest in the tank with my lung fish. If they get eaten, then I'll know they'll do OK as live food, and if they stay, well, at least they're colorful.

I can't believe how difficult it is to find any non-goldfish feeders locally, seems like none of my lfs's feel feeder guppy's are even worth stocking.