i would like to know wat i should feed my lungfihsh..can i feed it anything or is it a specific diet that they should eat
Lungfish feeding
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I fed mine anything- including: live fish, frozen silversides, live shrimp, fresh shrimp, live crawfish, cichlid pellets, dog food pellets, algae wafers.... anything that remotely resembles food, they go after. He took to attacking the siphon when I did water changes.
What size is it? Long before Spike was 30+ inches, he was capable of eating a fully grown crawfish, no problem. I got him at about 8 inches- Spike was an African marbled lungfish... stopped hand feeding him at about ten inches when he got my finger- he let go when I yelled at him, but that was all the warning I needed
What size is it? Long before Spike was 30+ inches, he was capable of eating a fully grown crawfish, no problem. I got him at about 8 inches- Spike was an African marbled lungfish... stopped hand feeding him at about ten inches when he got my finger- he let go when I yelled at him, but that was all the warning I needed
hhaha nice story do you still have the lungfish... and also i believ the one i looked at is around 7-8 inches and i am picking him up on monday...
i have one , had him for over a month, i dont think he has eaten at all. i have put all kinds of food in there. the temp and water are fine. he lays upside down movin and inch every couple of days. he goes days with out moving. i cant figure it out
Mine would not eat mice. I tried pinkies, because I had heard other people fed that to theirs.
Spike died about a year ago- I had him for 10 years- and he was in the shop I got him from for almost a year before that- what finally did him in was a fungal infection that we fought for about a year altogether. It was very insidious. He survived being chewed on by other fish- he lost part of his tail and his little feetsv in the back, but they eventually grew back- and he moved with me multiple times, and he jumped out a few times. It was a microscopic organism that killed him.
Spike died about a year ago- I had him for 10 years- and he was in the shop I got him from for almost a year before that- what finally did him in was a fungal infection that we fought for about a year altogether. It was very insidious. He survived being chewed on by other fish- he lost part of his tail and his little feetsv in the back, but they eventually grew back- and he moved with me multiple times, and he jumped out a few times. It was a microscopic organism that killed him.
dovii88 said:
The one I had would not eat anything live. He was kinda stubborn about only eating fresh shrimp, squid, and octopus. I had live crawfish in with him one crawfish eve died, and the Lungfish never touched it. He was with a crawfish for over a year and the lungfish was 3ft long.. So I guess you might have to feel it out a lil.