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King-eL;3687297; said:
Since you're in Indo, try feeding them with frogs, baby snakeheads, weather loaches or other frozen food you'll find in a fish market. They can make you're bichir grow faster and bulkier than feeding them with pellets which will you be needing a lot, make you're water smell and cloudy and you will be spending a lot if money too.

I have lots of fish and before I have to spend $300+ on hikari pellets every month. Now that I stop feeding them with pellets and goes for any frozen foods available in the market, I now spend $50-$60 every month. Makes my fish grow faster as well and water is always crystal clear with no bad smell.
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thanks,
hmmm I was thinking to feed them baby catfish, the name is "Clarias gariepinus", is a type of catfish that are consumed by people. But I dunno whether its safe or not. Weather loaches and baby snakeheads will cost more, and I never seen them being sold that much in the lfs.
I have plenty of frogs on my backyard, I feed them those frogs before when my bichirs were small, well small frogs of course. But then I heard backyard frogs is actually poisonous.
There most available options and the cheapest so far is to get feeders, I know that this may against anybody on the forum, as feeders may carry bacterias or parasites, but I guess as long as we quarantine them its should be OK. In fact, thats how my bichirs has gotten bigger till now.
Just imagine a bag of feeders/fish for just under $2, my bichirs can resist them. There are so many type of feeders in my lfs. And so far I give my bichirs lots of variety. And of course, I always quarantine them in a separate tank, for at least a week or more, before feeding them to the colony.
Just for experience, when I got my ornates before they didnt eat anything for almost a month. And it was a really stressfull time. Food would drop infront of them and they would care about it. Later I gave feeders in the tank, then when I was not around the start hunting for them.
Now,I have similar problem with my lap, its been 3 weeks and he still dont wanna eat anything. I did not check the lap when I bought it from the lfs, and it had a bloat just under its neck, I was worried; now the bloat is gone, but the lap still dont wanna eat anything. should I try bloodworms???
Anyway all i want for now is for my endlis to grow rapidly, cant wait to see them become the real monster in my tank.
By the way, I know endli cant grow up to 20" more, and sens just around 12" max. Will you still put them together in tank when your endli gets about that size?Should I be worry that my sens would be eaten by my endli???
cheers
 
Well many people are against feeders, but what they don't know that they will make you bichirs grow faster. There are just always risk of disease carrier. So make sure they are healthy before feeding them.

As for the frogs, don't confuse them with toads which are more common in the backyard. Frogs are more common in pools, swamps or any other body of fresh water which they stay most of the time. As far as I know aquatic frogs are not poisonous in Asia except for those rock or tree dwellers which you won't find in your backyard.

As for the bloodworms, it can make bloat even worst.

For the bichir size I have a 9" albino sene with my 22" endlis and 21" laps.
 
thanks King, your bichirs are big, hope mine would be like that someday, or bigger,lol.
cheers
 
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