Hi, my 6 inches polypterus ate one earthworm and i saw it was doing fine, until like 3 or 4 hrs later i saw it regurgitated the carcass of an earthworm. So, is that normal?
regurgitate?
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Infblue;1962579; said:
that maybe the case, but i fed chop-up nightcrawler before n it was eating well. perhaps this time it is a whole small earthworm about 2 inches. the chop-up nightcrawler is an inch but much thicker. Thank you for the response : )
Oh n any idea of other food? i have tried the small dead fish (the frozen one) silver sumthin. it eats but doesnt like it that much i guess
silversides? i feed that too.
you can also try market shrimp, frozen krill, fish fillet from supermarket (i now use tilapia), smelt, beefheart as a treat, and add one or more good pellets to its diet (i like hikari sinking carnivore for small bichirs, and hikari massivore delite for big ones. shrimp pellets are also great. some people also use hikari cichlid gold. generally bichirs will take the sinking pellets more readily than floating ones, but anything with high protein content is ok).
you can also try market shrimp, frozen krill, fish fillet from supermarket (i now use tilapia), smelt, beefheart as a treat, and add one or more good pellets to its diet (i like hikari sinking carnivore for small bichirs, and hikari massivore delite for big ones. shrimp pellets are also great. some people also use hikari cichlid gold. generally bichirs will take the sinking pellets more readily than floating ones, but anything with high protein content is ok).
I used to keep African Clawed frogs that did that too. Someone told me that alot of earthworms are grown on chicken poop, and that this irritates the insides of whatever eats them.
After I started cutting the earthworms up and cleaning them out, before feeding them, the ACF' s stopped regurgitating them up.
After I started cutting the earthworms up and cleaning them out, before feeding them, the ACF' s stopped regurgitating them up.