He hand feeds as he is in a tank full of Africans and he gets a long fine. But every morning he comes up to hand feed his krill and silversides it impresses the hell out of my friends that are bichir owners lol he is really cool. Next on my list is to move him and my 7" livingstonni in to my 100 gallon waiting to be setup and add some ornates and delhezi's and ofcourse endli