Polypterus Senegalus nutrition?

[Stalker_Loneriff]

Hi everyone, I recently got two juvenile Albino Senegals and my friend recommended me to give them chicken liver or chicken heart.

I'm just wondering if I should give some meat as well? I feed my dog raw but in raw feeding dogs, the guideline is that only 10% of their diet should be organs. is there a ratio like this when it comes to feeding fish as well? Would my Albino senegals be okay with just organs?

 

[predatorkeeper87]

Don't feed your fish any terrestrial proteins at all. Stick to fish and insects only.

Tilapia, pellets and whole silversides are all I ever feed my polys.

 

[Polyaddict86]

Tilapia, raw shrimp, sinking canivore pellet, anchovies and silversides.

 

[tlindsey]

Don't feed your fish any terrestrial proteins at all. Stick to fish and insects only.

Tilapia, pellets and whole silversides are all I ever feed my polys.

+1

 

[DMD123]

While the heart does contain a very lean meat with high protein, it is messy to cut out all the grizzle and tough fiber out of it to get to that little meat on a chicken heart. Also liver really fouls the water quickly.

 

[Stalker_Loneriff]

thanks for the response guys. i appreciate it. so basically raw fish and raw shrimp right? just chop them up to little pieces and freeze the other chopped parts for later?

 

[predatorkeeper87]

thanks for the response guys. i appreciate it. so basically raw fish and raw shrimp right? just chop them up to little pieces and freeze the other chopped parts for later?

yup sounds good.

 

[John Marsterson]

thanks for the response guys. i appreciate it. so basically raw fish and raw shrimp right? just chop them up to little pieces and freeze the other chopped parts for later?

It's def. better than terrestrial protein, which isn't very digestible by fish. Not only is the nutrition from it not the best, but it's messy going in and going out (since a lot of it doesn't get digested right)

I will say that live foods or raw foods can have pathogens. I use pellets, because the good brands are good when it comes to covering all the nutrition bases.