my 10" ornate eats everything including floating cichlid pellets. can i cut out frozen food and feed him mostly pellets?
bichir diet
- Thread starter dreamandscheme
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Yeah you can stick to pellets as the main part of their diet, but we all like a little variety.
It doesn't hurt to offer earthworms, shrimp, fish, etc... once in a while.
Massivore/carnivore, I use cichlid gold floating and sinking, but will switch to massivore when they're larger
It doesn't hurt to offer earthworms, shrimp, fish, etc... once in a while.
Massivore/carnivore, I use cichlid gold floating and sinking, but will switch to massivore when they're larger
Mine prefer frozen and fresh but ironically my wild caught BGK shoves the live foods out of her cave, for Hikari pellets.
Pellitized foods
Can be found in various diameters and forms include sinking and floating pellets and sticks
shrimp pellets
worm pellets
even pellets for cichlids will work
spirulina sticks
brine shrimp sticks
Algae wafers(some eat them some just look at them)
When feeding pellets how much to feed?
Under 7''I let them eat as much as they want several small feedings when young are better then 1 or 2 large feedings.I let juvies eat till theres a slight bulge to there bellies
This really applies to bichirs 7''+ I feed mine twice a day skipping at least one day a week
Approx. 80% of their diet is a quality pellet food the rest frozen with the ocassional live feeders after quarantine of course.
How manyPellets?
I start off with total 2 pellets per inch of fish eg. a 7'' fish gets 7 pellets in the A.M. and 7 in the evening feeding is then adjusted up or down so all pellets are consumed.Remember a nice round bichir is a happy bichir-Anne
Can be found in various diameters and forms include sinking and floating pellets and sticks
shrimp pellets
worm pellets
even pellets for cichlids will work
spirulina sticks
brine shrimp sticks
Algae wafers(some eat them some just look at them)
When feeding pellets how much to feed?
Under 7''I let them eat as much as they want several small feedings when young are better then 1 or 2 large feedings.I let juvies eat till theres a slight bulge to there bellies
This really applies to bichirs 7''+ I feed mine twice a day skipping at least one day a week
Approx. 80% of their diet is a quality pellet food the rest frozen with the ocassional live feeders after quarantine of course.
How manyPellets?
I start off with total 2 pellets per inch of fish eg. a 7'' fish gets 7 pellets in the A.M. and 7 in the evening feeding is then adjusted up or down so all pellets are consumed.Remember a nice round bichir is a happy bichir-Anne
beblondie;1774366; said:
if thats the case then i am way underfeeding. i have been feeding him every 3 days with shrimp or silversides and bloodworms.