Seriously. The first time I saw it I thought he'd swallowed a pebble or something, or had some kind of blockage, so I didn't feed for 2 days and the huge bulge disappeared. But then I fed the fish and sure enough he just ate ate ate. He gets a bulging belly like a catfish. Funny thing is there are 2 of them, bought at the same time and place, and the other one is a more "normal" eater. Long term can this be bad for him? I really can't cut back on his food because his tankmates (jurupari, festivums, ABKnife) need to get theirs, too.
One of my senegals eats himself nearly to bursting...
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hehe since polys are carnivorous/predators i think they can eat a pretty large percentage of their body weight. I keep hearing around a fat bichir is a happy bichir. I think sometime i've seen my bichir get soo full it starts eating some more food then just spits it out. In one of primer sticky anne mention as long as they have a slight budge to their belly that will be good for a bichir
ya that was the same with my senegal birchir when I had him... didnt seem to cause much problems... he was happy out!!
I was very worried too when my albinos snaked down a too many little frogs ^^"
But they turned out alright
But they turned out alright
all bichirs tend to eat lots
i think they are in nature opportunistic storers of fat and meat.
they eat as much as they can cos food doesnt always come
some fish are like this.
bichirs cn probably survive more than a year after a few good feeds.
in nature they live in pretty randomplaces.
my one eats like crazy
ornate doesnt eat as much as the others, but hes big now, 17 to 18 inches
my dels and palmas polli and albino sen is the biggest pigs of all.
the palmas actually just vaccuum the floor, there is litereally no pause in the swallowing
i think they are in nature opportunistic storers of fat and meat.
they eat as much as they can cos food doesnt always come
some fish are like this.
bichirs cn probably survive more than a year after a few good feeds.
in nature they live in pretty randomplaces.
my one eats like crazy
ornate doesnt eat as much as the others, but hes big now, 17 to 18 inches
my dels and palmas polli and albino sen is the biggest pigs of all.
the palmas actually just vaccuum the floor, there is litereally no pause in the swallowing