You can feed it to them just not every day give them a varied diet. Feed it to them like once a week. I feed mine tilapia, catfish, buffalo fish, perch, herring, salmon (not too much tho it's an oily fish), crawfish, shrimp, muscles, clams, oysters, frozen crab. Live food I do dwarf frogs, sometimes rosy reds, shiner minnows, red worms, night crawlers, crawfish (break off the claws), shad and crickets. You can find mostly all I said at walmart or a fresh fish market
Mine is my only poly that hides practically 24/7 and then he never eats, it's like he only eats when necessary, he's been 8 inches since I've got him in February this year. But I read that this happens sometimes so I won't give up on him.
Yea it's frustrating. My lap is similar, except he doesn't hide and he grew atleast an inch, but he eats very little as well, my others are greedy however.
