Favorite Food?

[nako]

What is your bichir's FAVORITE food? My Sengs love tilapia (like go wild for it) and cichlid frozen food. I'm also sure they snack on the ghost shrimp that are their tank cleaners. Please share!!

 

[jaws7777]

I dont think they have a favirote... seem to eat what ever i give em...except for the new moke she inly eats fliunder at the moment but im gonna try and break this habbit fast.

Others eat nls, omega one, veggie pellets, algaemax, flounder, frozen krill, massivore, and hikari. Gonna try tilapia when i run out of flounder

 

[nako]

See, I went out and bought a ton of frozen fish treats... they hate beef heart, krill, and won't even look at pellets. The shrimp eat at them but my guys hate them. How do you get them to eat the pellets? Or the massivore for that matter.

 

[Dr.B]

I'll go will tilapia. Theres only a few fish in my tank that won't eat it (oddly enough), but the other 40+ couldn't get enough.

 

[Dr.B]

See, I went out and bought a ton of frozen fish treats... they hate beef heart, krill, and won't even look at pellets. The shrimp eat at them but my guys hate them. How do you get them to eat the pellets? Or the massivore for that matter.

Well theres a couple different ways to do it. First off you could just starve them. Second you could soak the pellets in garlic then feed the pellets. Are you just trying to feed massivore? And also do you just have senegals or others as well? If so how big are they?

 

[nako]

Just senegals. Two of them one at 3- 4" and the other at 6" bought a month or so apart. They are still babies and just as picky. Garlic?? I'm just trying to vary their diet. They seem to be thriving. I am going to try gulf shrimp next and so on. I work at a grocery store and have access to the freshest of seafood.

 

[HumanBean]

All kind of pellets first, second tilapia, third shrimp. Didn't jumped into chicken or beef related products yet. Don't want to scare my wife the moment she will see my preparing beef or chicken for these "creepy crawlies" she will freak out

 

[Dr.B]

Just senegals. Two of them one at 3- 4" and the other at 6" bought a month or so apart. They are still babies and just as picky. Garlic?? I'm just trying to vary their diet. They seem to be thriving. I am going to try gulf shrimp next and so on. I work at a grocery store and have access to the freshest of seafood.

Sens while it may seem hard to train onto pellets, aren't actually as hard to train as others , because they've most likely been fed some sort of non-live, non-seafood type of food before. Even if you are just trying to vary their diet, pellets are the way to go even if it takes a little training. If you are just trying to vary their diet and get other things in their diet, I would recommend bloodworms, brine shrimp, tubifex worms, and pellets that sink that have 35%+ protein (or at least a high percentage of protein in the 30%-40% range). All of the ones I recommended (except pellets) won't suffice once they are older, but should be able to do the job right now at their sizes. Garlic is used because it tends to make the food more attractive to the fish. So if you wanted to try and use garlic you can go online and find some liquid bottles of it and just squirt some on pellets or whatever you are wanting to try and feed your fish.

 

[nako]

Cool thanks for the info Dr.B! I never would have thought fish liked garlic...