Live feeders for Senegal and delhezi

[beau1990]

i have been raising my two bichirs for a couple months now in my community tank I originally introduced them to act as population control fish for my mollies so they keep the fry numbers down. I also feed them sinking shrimp pellets and ghost shrimps is this ok? They are thriving id like to think that they have a varied enough diet but I don’t know. Discuss

 

[Hendre]

How big is the tank? Honestly I think polys (especially dels) would get big enough to eat many "community" fish, although mollies would be safe.

I don't feed my polys live foods apart from mosquito larvae and such. But yours sound cool

 

[beau1990]

It's a 55 and before any one starts this is their growing tank they will be moved to a larger one when they get bigger

 

[tlindsey]

Yes varied diet is excellent just don't start feeding goldfish or feeder guppies from lfs. They will consume any fry small enough to fit in their mouths including poly fry.

 

[Hendre]

It's a 55 and before any one starts this is their growing tank they will be moved to a larger one when they get bigger

That's cool. I keep my sens in a 70 at the momet

 

[beau1990]

Sweet so it's safe to say I'm doing it right then?

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Sweet so it's safe to say I'm doing it right then?

Yes, you can add crickets if you think they'll eat them, not required tho.

Other feeders (if your interested): scuds, triops, earthworms, soldier worms

 

[beau1990]

Thanks Bud I just wish they weren't such slow growers I've been thinking about triops(tadpole shrimp?) They do love when the mollies give birth though when I introduced Loki, my platinum Senegal, I had 55 baby mollies and within two weeks it was down to 17

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Triops are easy to breed in tubs,as are mosquitofish

 

[beau1990]

Here they are my boys LokiAnd here's Gucci ( the wife named him because he was, at the time, the most expensive fish we bought)