LIVE FOOD FOR BICHIRS???
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Pellets are ideal. They are healthier, cleaner, have no risk of introducing pathogens, and will not increase aggression. No need for either to get live foods.
That's not the question^he didn't even say he wanted to increase there aggression,
yes it cleaner but they don't eat pellets in the wild. Guppies and minnows would work fine but make sure you quarantine them for 2weeks atleast and feed them high quality flakes.
yes it cleaner but they don't eat pellets in the wild. Guppies and minnows would work fine but make sure you quarantine them for 2weeks atleast and feed them high quality flakes.
Short answer yes. But its better to quarantine them and gut load them with high quality flakes to make the feeders have more nutritional value.
Zfishies;5115627; said:
They don't eat minnows and guppies in the wild either. Beblondie posted a study where the stomach contents of senegal bichirs were taken and there was no evidence of fish at all. Crabs, birds, and insects made up their entire diet.
P. bichir sp. specializes on small spiny catfish, eels, cyprinids, and tilapia.
Diff. bichir species have very different diets, but they all go crazy for crayfish, crabs, shrimp, and other inverts. They're the best live food possible for bichirs
I believe inverts are found because of the shell. Any fishes the bichir eat would have been digested fast.
Zfishies;5115707; said:
There were around 6% "unidentified remains". The fish could have been a part of that, but who knows.
I'm sure that in the wild a fish would dart away before a bichir even saw it, unless ambushed. My bichirs are clumsy when catching pellets, I doubt they could catch a moving fish with more than one brain cell.