I do not know what is wrong with my Ornate Bichir, at first she ate krill, mealworms, earthworms, chunks of fish meat but I also observed that she started to become picky! after having one she would refuse the previous meal until for awhile. She totally rejected prawns.
She would swim fine and look for food at the bottom, even by digging up the gravels which broke my heart when she seemed to eat the gravels!
( I understand they have poor eye sight that they can't really differentiate between food and gravels ). Then I would provide mealworms and as soon as she sniffed them she would snap her jaw as if she is not impressed and swim away from it! the same behaviour to earthworms. Fine, what about feeder fish? Alright then I baught it, but she made poor attempts at striking them and I do not know if she ate at all. Last night in the dark I kept hearing snaps after snaps ( not sure if it was exactly her as I have her with a Gar and Climbing Perch ), and in the morning her tummy looked filled a little, I wish she was successful being a nocturnal.
But earlier today as she's hungry again she ahhhhhhh ate gravels! and instead of all the food I have been giving her, my Gar's stool attracted her and she ate them! I am going to change to a different substrate so she can't eat it...*sighs*...what substrate do you guys use for your Polypterus? Looks like I have chances of losing her from impaction huh?
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! And I don't think she has eaten well at all although she looks just fine. I changed water, changed the level of salt just wondering if they could have been any cause to it and no, she's still with that same attitude.
She would swim fine and look for food at the bottom, even by digging up the gravels which broke my heart when she seemed to eat the gravels!
( I understand they have poor eye sight that they can't really differentiate between food and gravels ). Then I would provide mealworms and as soon as she sniffed them she would snap her jaw as if she is not impressed and swim away from it! the same behaviour to earthworms. Fine, what about feeder fish? Alright then I baught it, but she made poor attempts at striking them and I do not know if she ate at all. Last night in the dark I kept hearing snaps after snaps ( not sure if it was exactly her as I have her with a Gar and Climbing Perch ), and in the morning her tummy looked filled a little, I wish she was successful being a nocturnal.But earlier today as she's hungry again she ahhhhhhh ate gravels!
and instead of all the food I have been giving her, my Gar's stool attracted her and she ate them! I am going to change to a different substrate so she can't eat it...*sighs*...what substrate do you guys use for your Polypterus? Looks like I have chances of losing her from impaction huh? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! And I don't think she has eaten well at all although she looks just fine. I changed water, changed the level of salt just wondering if they could have been any cause to it and no, she's still with that same attitude.
I wonder how she feels! when I saw her eating gravels I was speechless and a part of me felt like giving up...sad, will stop it.
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