Polypterus diet

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Cohazard;3369276; said:
Good to hear, here are a couple quick pointers:

defrost the tilapia by running under cold water for a few seconds then use a sharp knife to cut it into small pieces the bichirs can easily eat. The easier it is to eat, the more they will eat.

tilapia leaves an oil slick on the surface of your water that will reduce oxygen exchange, so I strongly recommend a surface skimmer.
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I completely unthaw the fish. I also soak it in garlic. Haven't had any problem with oil slicks.
 
I'm sorry to ask but what is the garlic doing for the fish?

I feed shrimp, tilapia, and massivore.
My 4" endlis are growing twice as fast as my ornates it seems. But they also eat twice as much:D.
 
It's supposed to help prevent internal parasites and also make the food more appealing to the fish.
 
My bichirs are in with my gars, and I feed them rosy reds once a week. The bichirs eat more rosies than the gars do. My smallest bichir has always eaten more pellets than feeders, simply because I got my gars eating mostly pellets now, and that last bichir has grown slower than the other three. My normal senegal & delhezi are both very predatory when it comes to feeders, and they've both grown the largest.
 
mine eats everything. from sinking pellets to feeders to market shrimp.
 
I also feed Tilapia once in awhile. I mainly feed them Frozen Ghost Shrimps and Pellets. IMO, it seems if you change up their diet once in awhile, you'll see some results but then it levels out again. I admit I'm on the lazy side, so I don't regularly do Tilapia because of the prep work.
 
I used to feed my guys Tilapia fillets and some choice pellet food for their entire diet. I would cut the fillet into thin strips - they seemed to want the strips more than the chunks ( :screwy: I know, right?).

While they were on that diet ( I haven't fed them Tilapia in weeks), I didn't notice anything except a willingness to eat the fillets before the pellets.


I am supposed to be picking up some more this weekend, and will be adding to the Sens' and Lap's diet soon. Right now they are in love with Ken's Soft & Moist w/ Krill... Even my picky, picky Lap will eat it - as long as she doesn't think I'm watching, for some reason.
 
My delhezi floats around at the surface of the tank at night trying to eat the giant danio.
 
Stump;3370123; said:
I used to feed my guys Tilapia fillets and some choice pellet food for their entire diet. I would cut the fillet into thin strips - they seemed to want the strips more than the chunks ( :screwy: I know, right?).

While they were on that diet ( I haven't fed them Tilapia in weeks), I didn't notice anything except a willingness to eat the fillets before the pellets.


I am supposed to be picking up some more this weekend, and will be adding to the Sens' and Lap's diet soon. Right now they are in love with Ken's Soft & Moist w/ Krill... Even my picky, picky Lap will eat it - as long as she doesn't think I'm watching, for some reason.
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I'll try the strips.
 
my delhezi must either be blind or dumb lol.
He's fat and huge... but he has a very hard time locating food, even if the pellet drops right infront of his nose lol

I have to wait till lights out asnd the other fish are asleep to drop a tab right infront of him and then it still takes him about 2 mins to sniff it out!

Hes a great fish though, but no way in hell could he catch a feeder! a pellet takes him long enough!
 
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