Senegal

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West1

West1

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I picked up a dino bichir (I was told it is a senegal...) and it is about 2inches. Beef heart will help get him to grow fast, so my question is how much should I feed him and how many water changes a week should I do. Right now i do about a 25% water change once a week. Should I do 30-40% since beef heart is pretty messy?
 
feed him a variety of foods, beefheart maybe 1-2 times a week would be good. 25% a week is also good. What else is in the tank. I had 2 senegals in my tank one grew so slow but the other is now 6-7 and the other was 3, i got them both around 2 inches. Hikari sinking carnivore, hikari sinking pellets, Fd krill, silversides. Anything your bichir will eat just make sure u mix it up.
 
Right now it is in my sisters tank with 2 mono sabaes. It is a grow out tank untill he can get placed in my 150 with 2 VATF'S. My ATFS are 6" and I hope I can put them together.
 
a few small meals are better than one or two ig meals vary the diet and make sure what you feed are the right size for your fish and include a good quality pellet this assures
its vitamin needs are met
The freezer at your local fish store is a smorgasboard of foods which should include
silversides or lancefish
mysis shrimp
brine shrimp
krill
bloodworms
tubifex worms
squid
beefheart
Simply thaw and feed
Pellitized foods
Can be found in various diameters and forms include sinking and floating pellets and sticks
shrimp pellets
worm pellets
even pellets for cichlids will work
spirulina sticks
brine shrimp sticks
Algae wafers(some eat them some just look at them)
When feeding pellets how much to feed?
Under 7''I let them eat as much as they want several small feedings when young are better then 1 or 2 large feedings.I let juvies eat till theres a slight bulge to there bellies
This really applies to bichirs 7''+ I feed mine twice a day skipping at least one day a week
Approx. 80% of their diet is a quality pellet food the rest frozen with the ocassional live feeders after quarantine of course.
How manyPellets?
I start off with total 2 pellets per inch of fish eg. a 7'' fish gets 7 pellets in the A.M. and 7 in the evening feeding is then adjusted up or down so all pellets are consumed.Remember a nice round bichir is a happy bichir
Read the labels and look for this information
NUTRITION FOR CARNIVORES
Below are the agreed upon nutritional requirements for predatory fish
PROTEIN:: 45% or more (this would be the ideal)
FAT:: 3% Min. to 6% Max.
FIBER 2% Min. to 4% Max
 
W O W!!!! What, did you go to fish College? :) Thanks, Im going to try to get that diet for the little guy. I probly have to go to a couple of diff LFS. What would you say his growth rate should be at 2"?
 
Growth rates can vary vastly from individual I have had senegals grow 1 1/2-2 inches per month and i have had one that grew 4 inches in a year-Anne

I went to U of E&R
 
Thats interesting. Thanks
 
Thats the place
 
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