Hi guys I just wanna ask if it is okay to feed my bichirs live food everyday. They really love chicken heart, they have 3 diets chicken heart, shrimp and feeders. I only leave 10 feeders in their tank incase they're hungry and won't eat the smaller bichirs. I have 2 12-13 inches endli and a 6 incher senegal albino
Bichir live food
- Thread starter Reyyy52
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Quarantined live feeders are recommended. If you don't quarantine live feeders the live feeders can carry parasites, bacterial, or viral disease.
I would avoid feeding chicken heart to your Polypterus. Chicken heart is bad for fish because of the high fat levels. Try to feed your Polypterus fresh fish filet, high protein carnivore pellets, and whitebait. You can supplement their diets with prawns and insects as a treat. Live feeders would only be okay if they have been quarantined and gut loaded. With Polypterus, or any fish in general, try to give a varied diet so they can live longer and happier lives. ??
You can definitely do that just make sure the minnows aren’t sickly... I feed mine live shinner minnows, ghost shrimp, red worms, Canadian night crawlers, and crawfish (just break off the arms so they don’t pinch)..... Live food makes the bichirs way more active
I found that feeding bichirs live food makes them abit aggrassive.