baby lj poly feeding
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You can try small pieces of cut up tilapia, market shrimp, blood worms, and hikari sinking pellets or break up massivores. My Nigerian Lapradei Bichir loves massivores s can’t get enough of em!
I have hikari sinking pellets, but idk, it feels slightly too big for them. like theyll choke if they tried. is it possible to cut those things without them crumbling? i ask because i am at work and cant test it out atm. i have both dried and frozen bloodworms. which would be best and how should i administer it? by pipa, or by just letting them find it?
Yes you can break them, take a rolling pin or a knife and just slightly hit it, it will crumble but you should end up with smaller pieces. Other thing you can do is soak it in water, wait for it to get “soft” and tear it up. Or when they are young, get some blood worm, daphnia frozen cubes and fatten them up on those first if they don’t take the carnivore pellets. Tearing small pieces of fish and shrimp should work as well. When they are young, should be easy to get them on food so I still recommend trying the pellets to save you the headache of trying to convert them once they are larger. Also, don’t fret if they don’t eat right away, give them a few days and try with lights off for best results. Make sure to remove food after a few hours to make sure they don’t spoil the water. I found that decoration and substrate have induced my stubborn bichirs, so if you have them in a bare bottom tank with nothing, that would help as well. Good luck!
Also, frozen blood worms would be best, you really don’t need a pippete, just drop it close to them and they should find it.
Pics of the fish would be nice as well ?. What species do you have?