my bichir cant eat!!!!! help!!!!

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dangitseric

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every time i put a feeder fish into da tank my arrowana keeps stealing it what do i do?????? He wont eat pellets either
 
just toss in more feeders, or some beef heart.


you could try and get the arowana to eat at the other end of the tank (use some krill or something like that) then feed the bichir on the other end.


hope it works for you.
 
Removable tank divider?
 
DeLgAdO said:
starve his ass, he'll give into pellets sooner or later
definitely agree. My senegal bichir starved for a month before he started eating pellets, but by god he did break down and eat them.
 
You don't need to use feeders! What kind of pellet do you use?

Try some Hikari sinking carnivore pellet, bichirs love that stuff..

and the floating carnivore pellet for your arro..bichir will learn to eat
from the surface.
 
You take a rosey red shuv its mouth full of frozen brine shrimp till it shokes and dies than it will sink and the bichir will eat it.
 
another thing you can do is force feed it. take it out of the tank put a match under its belly and it will get real hungry because it thinks its going to die and it wants a last meal.
 
one last thing you can do is buy crickets. Then freeze the crickets (all i have to do is put them outside for thirty minutes) and wiegh the crckets down with wieghts.
 
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