Beefheart

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yes, its a beef heart so its an actual heart. as to how much to feed it, that is debatable.
 
I would only feed it seldomly as mamilian meat is not much part of their natural diet. Fead mainly pellet food and maybe krill, raw shrimp, silversides etc
 
I wouldnt feed it anymore than 2-3 times a month. Its good protein.
 
I feed beefheart once every other week. Just make sure that your bichirs have a varied diet to keep them healthy.
 
FEEDING & NUTRITION
Now that you have a bichir what does it eat? In their natural habitat bichirs normally eat small fish,various insect larvae and invertabrates.Bichirs are generaly non agressive ambush predators but also oppurtunistic scavengers.Objects to big to be consumed whole are often "deathrolled" till
small parts are twisted and ripped off the carcass.The key here is to balance the diet thru a variety
of foods with an eye on total nutrition.A varied diet is a good diet for your fish and yourself.
Now then what can we feed them? You actually have several options and They will be listed below
The freezer at your local fish store is a smorgasboard of foods which should include
silversides or lancefish
mysis shrimp
brine shrimp
krill
bloodworms
tubifex worms
squid
beefheart
Simply thaw and feed
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This is from the polypterid introduction and primer. Beefheart is perfectly fine for polys and, as long as you're varying the diet enough to meet their nutritional needs, you can feed polys beefheart as much as you want.
 
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