New Baby Bichir Diet

[STONEDFISH]

I bought a bichir today, got him his own little tank to grow in untill he's ready for the big boys.

What is the best stuff to feed a baby? He's only a few inches.

Damn this website....I got new fish tanks all over my apartment and my LFS has all my cash....hahahaha!

 

[cenecker]

HA...I'm familiar with that feeling...they eat pretty much ANYTHING meaty and will take pellets and such with a little starving.

 

[IoStrisciare]

I bought a bichir today, got him his own little tank to grow in untill he's ready for the big boys.

What is the best stuff to feed a baby? He's only a few inches.

Damn this website....I got new fish tanks all over my apartment and my LFS has all my cash....hahahaha!

if u wanna fatten that fella up u could try baby frogs... seen hobbyists pump up theirs w frogs till they look like quasimodo...

 

[zhuangsw]

I bought a bichir today, got him his own little tank to grow in untill he's ready for the big boys.

What is the best stuff to feed a baby? He's only a few inches.

Damn this website....I got new fish tanks all over my apartment and my LFS has all my cash....hahahaha!

haha, bro u just contracted the incureable fish fanatic disease. you will get addicted to keeping fishes, and will buy more and more over time as you want to venture to try keeping new species.

birchirs, being predatory fishes, love meaty stuff.

u can eat stuff from frozen/live bloodworms, tubifex worms, to feeder fishes, to feeder frogs, to market prawn and dried can shrimps!

anything meaty!

 

[beblondie]

they are fed bloodworms and baby brine shrimp
chopped squid and very small silversides and
just about any lean meaty foods matched to their
size ghost shrimp are good too as are guppy fry
I feed small portions a few times a day.This
isn't possible for many but try feeding morning
and again at night, between now and 7" they
are undergoing their greatest growth and are
hungry constantly -Anne

 

[DRaGoNoVA]

i fed mi froggies when i had it last time

 

[shookONES]

At that size, bloodworms are you best bet. I wouldn't bother with pellets at this point. beblondie's post should suffice in terms of info, though I'm not sure about the BBS.

 

[STONEDFISH]

So far he's eating frozen brine shrimp and seems to like it. I'm gonna go to the LFS ans get some blood worms and guppies.

 

[DRaGoNoVA]

to another birchir keeper

 

[beblondie]

You'll be amazed at how much a growing bichir can eat when it sets its mind to the task-Anne