Dino

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Hey thought I'd share some pics of my senegal, as the thread title should tell you his name is Dino. If anyone watched the Flintstones as a kids they'll know where the name came from, the fact that they're sometimes called dinosaur eels made the fit perfect :D

Anyway I got him just last November, at around 1.5" from my lfs and he's currently around 5.5"-6"

Dino is my first poly so I've become really interested in them lately. I'm planning on a 75g poly build this summer (along with a couple other builds) and am planning on picking up a delhezi and ornate to give him some company. If you guys have any suggestions for tankmates that might go well with them that would be great. His diet is currently ghost shrimp, though I supplement it with sinking cichlid pellets, and other fish meats. I love watching him late at night stalk after the shrimp.

I also have a question, would it be safe to feed him meats like beef, venison, chicken, and pork? Where I am they're more readily available.

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JamesF said:
Nice little sen. Skip the land based meats. Go with frozen shrimp, tilapia, and a good pellet food like New Life Spectrum or Hikari.
And welcome to MFK.
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Thanks, I'll be sure to skip the land-based meats, I just picked up some shrimp pellets and dino went crazy for them so I have a food I can keep around in case the shrimp aren't in stock I have plenty quarantined but in case there is a shortage it's nice to have a backup.
Thanks for the welcome, I've been lurking here on and off for a while but just recently decided to start posting. I'm looking forward to joining the community.

kevinfleming21 said:
That was my Sens name too lol
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Lol I figured it would be a fairly common name within the hobby, but it seems to fit him.
 
I have a senegal named "Dino" as well named by my kids. Mine is very active and one of my favorite fish!!! I almost picked up a palmas polli last night at the LFS but he was tiny and was afraid Dino would make a meal out of him (He is 13" and always hungry). Good looking guy and enjoy him.
 
JamesF said:
Shrimp pellets won't be a good staple for him. Try and find the brands I mentioned if they're available where you are. They make excellent staples.
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Damn, ok well I actually have a job interview with the lfs so while I'm there I'll check to see if they have any haha, he just depopulated my tank of the 20 or so ghost shrimp in a week. Last time I visited they only seemed to have omega one and top fin brands :/

JteSchertz said:
I have a senegal named "Dino" as well named by my kids. Mine is very active and one of my favorite fish!!! I almost picked up a palmas polli last night at the LFS but he was tiny and was afraid Dino would make a meal out of him (He is 13" and always hungry). Good looking guy and enjoy him.
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Mine is really active as well, he has a great personality and is the entire reason I've become so interested in fish keeping as of late. Since mine is only 5.5"-6" he still has a few smaller tank mates that haven't disappeared just yet. He doesn't even seem to mind my khuli loach that follows him around at night and hides underneath him during the day. That said he always seems to be hungry.
The lfs actually had a ton more sens that were apparently from the same batch mine was, and they were tiny only 2"-3" :( I hope they're getting enough to eat. I was considering getting another but not sure how healthy they would be.
 
Hikari Carnivore pellets, should be main diet, with krill, sand eels and silversides. Also raw crawfish tails, tilapia, and catfish from grocery store are good too. Shrimp pellets are no good and they also dirty the water really bad.
 
Well I actually have a cabin on a lake that has some pretty impressive crawfish, so I have fed him their tails before and he seemed to like them. It was a no-go on the job and no hikari food, I'll keep looking around or just order online. Once again thanks for all the help and sorry for the noob questions.
 
Nice senegal! Mine is named freddie as in fred flintstone, but also freddie freeloader (after the miles davis song) because that's what he is (a freeloader).

My sen is pretty aggressive and there seems to be no end to his appetite... he'll grab feeder fish until he looks like a fat stegasaurus.

I also have kuhli's in my tank with my senegal, and for a while he didn't give them a second glance. Then, one night, Freddie grabbed one of them by the head and I thought, "oh no... the peace has ended." I thought the kuhli was a goner for sure, the senegal had it in his mouth trying to corner it or stun it by shaking his head, for like ten minutes or so, but he seemed unable to swallow the kuhli any further. Eventually he relaxed his grip and the kuhli wriggled right out. I thought the kuhli would die from the stress, or that freddie would come around to finish it off, but nothing happened. The senegal's mouth seemed to be irritated, he would snap it open and shut a few times... probably from the spines on the loaches head.

Anyway, since that little altercation, my senegal seems to have decided that the kuhli's are not food, or at least not worth the trouble. It seems like a lot of predatory fish don't see kuhli loaches as prey. My stonefish will snap up a minnow in a heartbeat, but the kuhli's share a cave with the stonefish and wriggle around in front of it all day, and no sudden attacks from the stonefish yet.
 
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