How often and what do you feed your bichir ?

[AmaroSwe]

U can also try 2 stick pellets in 2 the fish then feed ur bichir

 

[Madding]

Five to six times a week. Pellets, bloodworms and any krill they can manage to snatch.

 

[phillydog1958]

Bichirs are easy to feed. They're not finnicky eaters. Starve for a few days then try tilapia, bloodworms, shrimp pellets, silversides or anything else that sinks. Mines eat all of those.

 

[Madding]

Bichirs are easy to feed. They're not finnicky eaters. Starve for a few days then try tilapia, bloodworms, shrimp pellets, silversides or anything else that sinks. Mines eat all of those.

I agree.

 

[McFall]

mine loves shrimp..i need to get some sinking pellets just cant find a dang store that has them

 

[Burbotman]

Once a day at night and Massivore, Tilapia, Silversides or Krill and one day without feeding....But when young try to feed more often twice a day...just starve him for a few days then feed only massivore or another food item it'll get the idea

Pretty much the same as Darth. Some beef heart and prawns added in.

I just have found that my poly's eat so much more if fed at night and thus give me better growth.

 

[Noa]

I feed mine Beefheart Plus, carnivore pellets and frozen bloodworms as a staple an then vary his diet between earthworms, market shrimp, ghost shrimp, and once in a great while I'll throw some rosies in the tank if I'm going to be gone for a weekend. But he's also a hog and will steal crickets and tubifex worm cubes from my African butterfly fish and African knife fish. I actually have to distract him at times so they can get some food.

 

[Bichisaur]

I feed mp, nls, trout, tilapia and silversidess everynight.

 

[screaminleeman]

Twice a day with a wide variety of cut meat chunks. I have used:
Mussles
Clams
Squid
Scallop
Gulf Shrimp
Freshwater Prawn
Krill
"white fish" fillet: Trouts, Bass, Tilapia, Butterfish, Spot, Haddock, Pollack etc...

I avoid the oilier fishes as to keep the tank as clean as possible! The Spot and Butterfish are awsome favorites, but be certain NOT to leave uneaten chunks of these fish in the tank for over a half hour or -it- hits the fan!

I have actually seen an all tank, all species boycot of a fish called "swai". It looks a little like a catfish but the fish must think it sucks!

 

[ChilliPepper]

My Del gets fed every day, same as my cichlids. They get a mix of Hikari Cichlid Gold, Hikari Cichlid Staple, Hikari Carnivore, Ocean Nutrition Spirulina Wafers, Hikari Algae Wafers plus frozen cichlid mix (bloodworm, daphnia etc) and frozen mussell once or twice a week. He has a bit of everything, doesn't seem too fussy.