My new Delhezi bichir

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don't worry. Just cut the pellets in smaller chunks. Just are a tip, when i got my first poly, I fed it cut up worm sinking pellets to it. There is no way a small poly can swallow such a big pellet. Also try hikiri sinking pellets. Bichirs are super hardy fish so they won't won't just die from starvation. Just as a note, I've kept bichir WAY before i've kept payaras. Bichirs are more of my speciality. lol
 
Slippery K said:
He still won't eat, tried a bit of everything. Same goes for my armatus. Starting to regret stocking this tank with these two lol

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you won't regret it for long. Once they've settled in, i recommend you to get more upperjaw bichirs! lol
 
Iv been useing cut up hikiri sinking carnivore pellets and formula 1 marine pellets lol he ate a tiny piece of talapia yesterday that fell off a bigger chunk.

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Slippery K said:
Iv been useing cut up hikiri sinking carnivore pellets and formula 1 marine pellets lol he ate a tiny piece of talapia yesterday that fell off a bigger chunk.

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Try the shrimp, cause my Senegal who is like an inch bigger than yours can only just eat the sinking hikaris both mt del and sen love the shrimp

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Shrimp I will try tomorrow, gotta get grocerys after work anyway.

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My bichirs only eat when they are in the dark.
 
No matter how small I break up the pellets or cut up shrimp/talapia, he basicly chews on it, eats like half the chunk he was chewing on and spits the rest out. I'm getting tired of watching him make a mess then having to syphon out uneaten food 2 or 3 times a day.

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I pretty much give up my bichirs. I have 3 bichirs of all less than 5 inches. They are a retropinnis, weeksi and delhezi. All them are classified as dwarves (by me) because they haven't grown for the 2 years i've had them. They are all supposed to be more than a foot long! I've never seen my retropinnis eat and my weeksi only eats once in a blue moon. They aren't unhealthy or anything.
They are were all runts in a pack of 12 inchers back in the lps though.
 
Slippery K said:
No matter how small I break up the pellets or cut up shrimp/talapia, he basicly chews on it, eats like half the chunk he was chewing on and spits the rest out. I'm getting tired of watching him make a mess then having to syphon out uneaten food 2 or 3 times a day.

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try leaving it overnight.
 
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