Lungfish feeding

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starrfish71 said:
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 :)
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Hmm, my lungfish never got hold of my finger, and I hand fed him.. : ) But mine was an African not marble.
 
Just stumbled upon this forum today, and I'm amazed at the number of fellow lungfish keepers!

I have a fairly young/small SAL, about 12" long at the moment. (Named "Nahualito" after a south american lake monster.)

I've been feeding him(/her? is there even an esay way to sex them?) a mix of small chopped shrimp & bloodworms, and at his size I thought I'd try to introduce some live food to his tank.

Besides small snails, I've been considering adding some feeder guppies to the tank to serve as both food supply & "active decoration" to an otherwise fairly dull tank. (My SAL is awesome in its own right, but not always active while I'm around to see him.)

From what I've seen here, it seems I should also get some algae wafers to round off his diet a little more.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?
 
Well, I managed to get a few endler's, so I'll see how that works out.

I hink I'll try and breed some, and put the rest in the tank with my lung fish. If they get eaten, then I'll know they'll do OK as live food, and if they stay, well, at least they're colorful.

I can't believe how difficult it is to find any non-goldfish feeders locally, seems like none of my lfs's feel feeder guppy's are even worth stocking.
 
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