What is the best diet for a senegal ?
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Sounds good to me. Mine love bloodworms frozen or freeze dried and seem to have taken a liking to sinking carnivore pellets lately.
Thanks man. If he was the only fish in the tank or just with other bichirs I would go for the carnivore pellets but the other fish cant be eating that stuff. I have to target feed him every time with a little grabber unit I got from petco. Maybe ill try some sinking carnivore it has some vitamins in it.
I use HBH SuperSoft Krill, NLS Large Fish Formula, Hikari Sinking Wafers and frozen bloodworms. I don't have to target feed though, his tankmates are a spiny eel, an African Knife, and a pleco. He occasionally swipes the pleco's algae wafers. Leaves the fresh veggies alone, but swipes a wafer now and again.
I got mine in with some bigger more predatory Africans as of now (Livinstoni ) They leave him alone but god forbid if I tried to feed him pellets my other fish would die of bloat before he got food. Ill see if he eats pellets in a target feed.
My Senegels go absolutely crazy over frozen beef heart. They get 1 cube of blood worms in the morning and 1 cube of beef heart at night. And live with a colony of feeder guppies previousely QT'd and pick off any of the weak. I also see them pick at the flakes i feed the guppies on occasion. And occasionally i toss some shrimp pellets in, which they don't seem to care for much. they're 5" now and I plan to mix in some carnivore pellets as they get older.
