Am a bit new to the fish keeping hobby, since I've only been keeping fish for a couple years. My main tank is just a little 65 gal, but like to think the fish I have are of the more monstrous sorts in behavior if not in size. The fish I have right now are just some personally tank grown mollies and a mystery bichir. A very wimpy bichir, I might add. The boss of the tank is actually a male sailfin dalmatian molly about 3 inches long.
When feeding time rolls around the mollies I have suddenly turn into piranhas and the bichir goes hiding in a floating plant until the 'scary' fish go away. Thought for sure the bichir would at least eat slower moving molly fry, but that just isn't happening either. The bichir seems to prefer pieces of sinking algae pellets and freeze-dried bloodworms more. It's forcing me to consider converting another tank of mine into breeding an even slower, less aggressive fish so that the bichir would have something alive to eat every so often.
When feeding time rolls around the mollies I have suddenly turn into piranhas and the bichir goes hiding in a floating plant until the 'scary' fish go away. Thought for sure the bichir would at least eat slower moving molly fry, but that just isn't happening either. The bichir seems to prefer pieces of sinking algae pellets and freeze-dried bloodworms more. It's forcing me to consider converting another tank of mine into breeding an even slower, less aggressive fish so that the bichir would have something alive to eat every so often.
