Goat liver for my Sene?

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I know you can feed them chicken gizzards/liver as well as beef heart but I have a kosher butcher in my area that has goat livers...I thought they would probably be very nutritious. So, I feed my little guy some and he seems to love it.

Would anyone advise against doing this in the future? As I said he meat is from a Kosher market thus quality is of utmost importance.
 
the way i look at it is would your fish eat a chicken, goat, or cow in the wild? probably not just stick with its natural diet a fish will almost eat anything but its best to give it what it would get in its natural environment because its digestive system will be best suited for that my 2 cents :P
 
I mainly feed my little guy ghost shrimp, tilapia, and blood worms and have been thinning off my overly prolific guppies...(I find that he only eats very bright colored male guppies)

So, I mainly give him a diet of semi natural food but I would argue that bichirs would eat a series of non aquatic animals as well due to the messiness of other large predators (crocodiles and the like) while feeding. Obviously this would not be a regular thing but I have noticed that my bichir scavenges when the opportunity arises. I can only assume that if an easy chunk of recently eviscerated mammal, bird or otherwise foriegn creature happened to be lying about in the wild a Bichir would gladly eat it.

I could be wrong in this thought though.

but if I am I would not mind someone explaining why...
 
In the wild bichirs eat mainly crusteceans and insects, fish and RARELY birds....I believe that mammals are just as much in their diet as vegatables are with a three year old hyped up on candy
 
Darth Scohin;4668731; said:
In the wild bichirs eat mainly crusteceans and insects, fish and RARELY birds....I believe that mammals are just as much in their diet as vegatables are with a three year old hyped up on candy
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So, you are telling me that when a nile croc takes down a piece of large game none of the aquatic bottom dwelling predators eat the left over food that inevitably ends up on the bottom due to the shaking motion a crocodile utilizes while taking down it's prey?

I guess that explains the water shortage in Africa....The Nile must just be teaming with rotting meat and such.
 
Honestly during the great floods which happen in South East Africa(Kenya etc) Bichirs do not live in that region, they live in North West Africa and rarely streach into Lake Tanginyka....Plus would you want to be in water with MILLIONS of hooves barelling down into your river bank?
 
Darth Scohin;4668802; said:
Honestly during the great floods which happen in South East Africa(Kenya etc) Bichirs do not live in that region, they live in North West Africa and rarely streach into Lake Tanginyka....Plus would you want to be in water with MILLIONS of hooves barelling down into your river bank?
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I apologize for my sarcasm.

herd movement does seem as if it would be disruptive I suppose that is probably true.

That being said, would the goat liver be terrible as an occasional treat or no?
 
Just looked up Polypterus Diet These are results from Lake Chad
Polypterus endlicheri as observed include Tilapia species (89.3%), Eutropius niloticus(Type of Catfish) (28.6%), Mayfly nymph (39.3%), Dragon fly larva (56.6%) fish remains (21.4%) and detritus (7.1%).

Polypterus senegalus as observed include Tilapia sp (88.4%), Eutropius niloticus (27.9%), may fly nymph (23.3%), Dragonfly nymph (34.9%) remains(21.1%) detritus (23.3%).

Remains and Detritus are Fish

http://aquacomm.fcla.edu/1265/1/FISON2003_186-193.pdf

According to the paper the feeding of all polys seems to be the same
 
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