When feeding a bichir..

[maryjo]

I just recently purchased a Senegal bichir and have been feeding it earth worms. What else are good choices of food to feed them.. I don't want to give him the same food all the time.....

 

[twentyleagues]

A good quality pellet is best for over all health. My polys and ropefish love fluval bug bites I feed them the color enhancing granules (that's what I feed all my fish) and the pleco/bottom feeder sticks. Tilapia is good, crickets, black worms, ghost shrimp, most will eat just about anything. But a good quality pellet is a complete meal with all the nutrients needed and should be the majority of it's diet. When I feed crickets which isn't often I like to give the crickets an orange about an hour before load them up on vitamin c, its good for the fish.

 

[tlindsey]

A good quality pellet is best for over all health. My polys and ropefish love fluval bug bites I feed them the color enhancing granules (that's what I feed all my fish) and the pleco/bottom feeder sticks. Tilapia is good, crickets, black worms, ghost shrimp, most will eat just about anything. But a good quality pellet is a complete meal with all the nutrients needed and should be the majority of it's diet. When I feed crickets which isn't often I like to give the crickets an orange about an hour before load them up on vitamin c, its good for the fish.

Agree the Fluval Bugbites pellets are small enough for the Senegal to eat. Any other type of pellet may have to be broken up.

 

[Norsynth]

Hikari Sinking Carnivore Pellets is a good option as well.

 

[Simonas]

I find polypterus of all sizes love pellet apart from my big Endi that only eats silversides or mussel