I'm probably heading out to get one today. My question is what to feed it? I've got freeze dried tubifex worms and plan on picking up hikari sinking carnivore pellets. It'll be about 3 inches when I get him, can he eat pellets yet? And an odd question- can he be fed canned shrimp? I believe its cooked, but am not sure what preservatives are added. Thanks.
P senegalus feeding?
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Petsmart didn't have any hikari sinking pellets, so I ended up getting hikari cichlid gold. Is this alright?
i have one of thows fish but myn is much bigger now i hand feed him gold fish but when he was alot smaller i fed him some sinking pelets and worms that u can buy at your at any bate shop
The cichlid gold probably won't work because it floats. They'll sometimes come to the top to get food, but not necessarily.
The only sinking pellets there were shrimp pellets and that had a lower crude protein content than the baby sized cichlid pellets.
So, do I just suck it up and buy a bag of sinking shrimp pellets? The people at petsmart told me that they feed flakes to their bichirs, but I'm not having luck getting it to take flakes even when they sink.
Druu;1149062; said:
When they say "feed flakes" they probably mean someone goes around and dumps a bunch of food in each tank and hopefully the fish will eat it, that's what every petsmart I've been to does. They don't actually watch and see whether the fish are eating, it's just their standard feeding practice.
Try to find some HBH SuperSoft pellets. If not try shrimp pellets or another sinking pellet. They're not gonna want to come to the top to feed and low protein is better than no food at all.
Other options:
Freeze dried or frozen krill
Raw frozen fish filet from the store (just cut it up really small)
Pieces of raw cocktail shrimp without shell
These are things that are good to feed anyway, and don't worry about them not wanting pellets after that, it's not hard to get them on prepared foods.