What's the best method to get something down there neck? he's still only a tiddler so pellets are no good, is it okay to give ground up Cichlid flake? as he seems to take that.
Feeding young birchirs
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If its real small you could quarter pellets for it or use frozen foods such as bloodworms to go along with the cichlid flakes-Anne
Hoe big are they (or is he) if their smaller than an inch ground pellets and blood worms will do the job. I have 2 inchers and i feed them feeder guppies cuz this makes them grow quickly.
Personally I avoid using live 'feeder' fish if at all possible due to the risk of introducing internal and/or external parasites or other diseases to my bichirs. Almost all of my smaller bichirs will gorge themselves on frozen bloodworms or pieces of broken up Hikari carnivore pellets.
-Joe
-Joe
Doing the broken pellet thing, seems to take a eternity for the little fella to get it down, and intrduced some B/H. He's still swimming so things must be looking up. Thanks for your replies, great help.
When my polypterus were very small I fed them mostly blood worms and beef heart. Those seem to work well and they ate quite a bit. Live blackworms work great also if you feed live food to your tank.