I usually feed my little senegals with sinking carnivore pellets and occasional bloodworms as treats. Well yesterday i decided to cut up small pieces of earthworm for them and they DEVOURED them, this morning i went to feed them carnivore pellets and they refused it. Are they stuck on earthworms now?
Bichir Feeding
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They are not dangerous, probably just the opposite.. But vary their diet more often.. Mine eat pellets, earth worms, krill, prawns, blood worms, algae waffers, etc. A varied diet is important to their health and coloration as with most fish
Ok, the reason I asked is I was talking to some guys at the LFS when I was buying my current 3 about some issues I had with rope fish pior and they suggested that pellet foods expanding in the stomach of these primitive fish was potentially lethal. I thought it sounded kinda like goofy shenanigans(my G. tile moray was eating cichlid food by the mouthful.) I just didn't want the same fate as the rope fishes I'd had to befall my bichirs.
I had a LFS tell me the same thing, that they are bad for the digestive system. The pellets are fine for normal diet, its just that they digest slower (IMO) than meatier foods like earthworms and ghost shrimp, it seems that mine will stay fatter longer on the pellets than live or frozen food.
all my bichirs eat and and ate heaps of cichlid pellets and ive never had a problem and ive been keeping them over 10 years
Live feeder fish can carry parasites and bacteria. Pellets and frozen food is the usually the best. Frozen silversides, lancefish, and krill are good for polys, also earthworms from somewhere like Petco are good treats for them, plus ghostshrimp.
Plus the nutrition in them is questionable.
1 massivore pellet is equvilent to 2 feeder goldfish
1 massivore pellet is equvilent to 2 feeder goldfish