BGKBM

[cbfreder]

I am not so sure about the attitude of the board, so I will try to make this as tasteful as possible.

I've had a BGK for about a month and a half. He's always been a pretty good eater, chowing down on even FD bloodworms. He's grown from 3" to about 4" now. I've been trying to vary his diet, so now he eats FD krill, tubifex, and frozen mosquito larvae. Recently, I drove to an awesome LFS and got a load of black worms. Man, he sucks those things down.

He leaves some amazing loads all over my sand. I mean, this is incredible from such a small fish, especially since most of him is tail and fins. I have to use my turkey baster to remove these enormous turds on a daily basis. Is this something that you guys have experienced? Should I be concerned about it and reduce his feedings?

On a related note, I love this guy. I want him to be the best that he can be. Is this a usual growth rate? This board seems to have the opinion that they grow rather slowly, but others say they grow like CK's. I'm also going to make some recordings of his electrical signals. If anyone is interested, I'll post some info on that.

Brandon

 

[wintervixen]

Hi! My BGK is a voracious eating machine too. I rely on my overhead filter and feeder shrimps to do the mechanical cleaning of the tank each time he poops so it's not a problem.

Mine's a 10" when I received him as a present. 4 months later he's grown abt an inch. The feeder fish and shrimps last him for a week. I do give him occasional treat of mealworms.

I can't wait to see him grow up to his max length!

 

[AquataHolic420]

Huge Turds Are my Wrost nightmare... Some one keeps leaving em in my tank,, I dont know if its turds from the worms, n Crawlers, or the Ray, EBJD, or the Glass knife or Clown knife..small pleco too, but noooooo way.