Diet question

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No. If it's not a regular food they eat then don't consider it. Not meant to process these kind of foods as well.
 
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Feed it to your dogs if you have dogs! Or you can give it to your friends that have dogs. I'd take some off your hands if I lived close by. ;)
 
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Mammal heart is recommended by some for specific reasons, but generally I think the above answers it all. Deer is too tasty for fish and the fish aren't designed to process mammal flesh.

I highly advise against feeding fish organs, especially liver. Even humans (who have eaten deer livers for thousands of generations) suffer medically from eating it. For us, eating liver once a week is probably far too much, so I think that means never for fish.
 
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You still got it wrong. Bovidae NO cervidae NO. Bichir are not hard wired to consume beef, and the fatty acids found within beef, anymore than they are deer.
 
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I never meant to ask if they should eat it. I simply meant to ask would they if they came across say a dead antelope in a water body for example. Also beef heart is commonly fed in aquariums to many carnivores as a treat/growth supplement. (Though my polys have only ever had pellets and homemade tilapia/shrimp/bloodworm mix)
 
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My question was actually prompted by the beef heart weirdness. I never could see the point in it (protein numbers kind of speak for themselves) just curious as to whether a wild one would even perceive it as food. Basically the more I read the sillier it seems. Pound for pound my money is still on tilapia.
 
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