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STONEDFISH
08-01-2005, 2:20 AM
I bought a bichir today, got him his own little tank to grow in untill he's ready for the big boys.
What is the best stuff to feed a baby? He's only a few inches.
Damn this website....I got new fish tanks all over my apartment and my LFS has all my cash....hahahaha! :newbie:
cenecker
08-01-2005, 5:32 AM
HA...I'm familiar with that feeling...they eat pretty much ANYTHING meaty and will take pellets and such with a little starving.
IoStrisciare
08-01-2005, 7:09 AM
I bought a bichir today, got him his own little tank to grow in untill he's ready for the big boys.
What is the best stuff to feed a baby? He's only a few inches.
Damn this website....I got new fish tanks all over my apartment and my LFS has all my cash....hahahaha! :newbie:
if u wanna fatten that fella up u could try baby frogs... seen hobbyists pump up theirs w frogs till they look like quasimodo...
zhuangsw
08-02-2005, 4:21 AM
I bought a bichir today, got him his own little tank to grow in untill he's ready for the big boys.
What is the best stuff to feed a baby? He's only a few inches.
Damn this website....I got new fish tanks all over my apartment and my LFS has all my cash....hahahaha! :newbie:
haha, bro u just contracted the incureable fish fanatic disease. you will get addicted to keeping fishes, and will buy more and more over time as you want to venture to try keeping new species.
birchirs, being predatory fishes, love meaty stuff.
u can eat stuff from frozen/live bloodworms, tubifex worms, to feeder fishes, to feeder frogs, to market prawn and dried can shrimps!
anything meaty! :cheers:
beblondie
08-02-2005, 4:27 AM
they are fed bloodworms and baby brine shrimp
chopped squid and very small silversides and
just about any lean meaty foods matched to their
size ghost shrimp are good too as are guppy fry
I feed small portions a few times a day.This
isn't possible for many but try feeding morning
and again at night, between now and 7" they
are undergoing their greatest growth and are
hungry constantly -Anne
DRaGoNoVA
08-02-2005, 4:49 AM
i fed mi froggies when i had it last time
Tainted Glory
08-02-2005, 11:48 AM
At that size, bloodworms are you best bet. I wouldn't bother with pellets at this point. beblondie's post should suffice in terms of info, though I'm not sure about the BBS.
STONEDFISH
08-02-2005, 1:53 PM
So far he's eating frozen brine shrimp and seems to like it. I'm gonna go to the LFS ans get some blood worms and guppies.
DRaGoNoVA
08-04-2005, 11:21 AM
:cheers: to another birchir keeper
beblondie
08-04-2005, 12:01 PM
You'll be amazed at how much a growing bichir can eat when it sets its mind to the task-Anne
guppy
08-04-2005, 12:03 PM
Redworms from bait shops are very cheap and most fish like them, just cut them in 1/2 for fish under 4".
zhuangsw
08-04-2005, 3:22 PM
So far he's eating frozen brine shrimp and seems to like it. I'm gonna go to the LFS ans get some blood worms and guppies.
hows the baby endi doing? try feeding chop-up bite size market prawns. (yes, those that we buy from the market and eat).
all birchirs love them, my senegals go crazy whenever they smell it dropping into the water. :cheers:
Frozen Blood worms and Brine shrimp seemed to pack on the pounds for my bichirs. Guppy fry and feeder goldfish are great too, then they can eat when they want, even if you arn't arround all the time. Earthworms work well too, just make sure that you keep them for a week or so before you feed them in case they were exposed to some sort of pesticide.
STONEDFISH
08-04-2005, 11:14 PM
I've fed him some ghost shrimp and frozen brine so far. I tried to feed him a frog, but it's way bigger than him....oops.
I want to get another one (bichir), but I gotta see what my guy can get. This one is pretty active.....I like him.
beblondie
08-05-2005, 12:14 AM
Do not feed goldfish they are oily, poor in nutrition,contain a large amonut of growth inhibiting hormone,generaly in poor condition and have an anterior hard spine and if eaten wrong may cause major damage-Anne
STONEDFISH
08-05-2005, 12:22 AM
good to know.
beblondie
08-05-2005, 12:44 AM
I forgot studies have shown a heavy diet of goldfish causes a fatty layer to develop on the liver causing liver problems -Anne
Anne is right about over feeding goldfish, it should be a last resort, The only reason that I mentioned it is I don't have much for alternatives in Colorado, and if you are forced to go that rought it payes to quaranteen and gutload them.