Good balanced diet?

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As in black ghost knife perhaps? because I was actually thinking maybe doing one of those. The shop where I got the poly usually has them at about 5-6" range for a decent price.

There are several knifefish out there that are great, I'd stay away from Clown knives because of size but I love the BGK and Afer I have although to be fair the Afer has earned his name Jacka$$. The banded aka Carpo knife had was a complete jerk though

I am still new to polys myself but I feed Hikari sinking carnivore pellets, omega one shrimp pellets, and NLS 3mm sinking pellets. I will probably end up going with one type in the future (most likely NLS), but I'm still experimenting. My polys will only eat freeze dried shrimp if i hold it underwater with tweezers, maybe because I've only fed them with sinking food since day one..

I tried slivers of tilapia recently and wow they attacked it harder than they've ever attacked any pellet. In terms of how much.. I'm still figuring that out too. I try to feed just enough to see a slight bulge in their stomachs but also skip at least one day a week (it's hard though because it's so fun watching them eat!). I'll probably reduce the frequencies of feeding as their growth slows with age.

Yeah watch them and once they start getting "beer guts" start spacing out feeding.
 
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Rhykiru I was wondering about that myself (skipping a day) because I do that with my cichlids to avoid bloat. Was wondering if that was something to do with these guys or not as well.

yes they can get bloat thats why once they slow their growth it is good to skip a day or 2 between feedings also feeding catfish every couple weeks is good for them just make sure it is right before a water change because of the oils
 
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Okay lol. Good to know, I will for sure be vigilant on his food intake then. I'm VERY OCD, so hopefully I'm not over vigilant lol

"mokelembembe"

I googled. I like! lol. Is there any easy place here or somewhere to find all the species listed, and I know (barely know) some are upper jaw and others lower jaw....As a whole, do the lower jaw get larger than the upper jaw ones? I'm trying to read up much as I can but there's a lot of info and some is confusing to say the least.
 
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Okay lol. Good to know, I will for sure be vigilant on his food intake then. I'm VERY OCD, so hopefully I'm not over vigilant lol

"mokelembembe"

I googled. I like! lol. Is there any easy place here or somewhere to find all the species listed, and I know (barely know) some are upper jaw and others lower jaw....As a whole, do the lower jaw get larger than the upper jaw ones? I'm trying to read up much as I can but there's a lot of info and some is confusing to say the least.

Now that your hooked you have to do what the rest of hard core guys do... order them online. Lol

Here is one place for you: http://www.wetspottropicalfish.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=116
 
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