bichir appetite

Hello there I have 8 bichirs and 5 snakeheads who will not eat fish fillets but eat only shrimp how to make them eat other foods

I’ve been feeding crickets, earth worms, minnows, tilapia, shrimp cutlets, blood worms, brine shrimp and probably something I’m forgetting like 3 times a week other than that they eat hikari sinking carnivore pellets(they absolutely love these things). I was wondering about any other foods y’all...

1.) Can I keep comet goldfish and gray bichir together worried about the oil some goldfish produce 2.) If they can't go together how do I get the oil out of the tank before I add the grey bichir 3.) I want to set up a gray bichir tank with central American cichlids as tank mates if the...

Hi this is my first post on MFK! So I got myself a couple new bichirs earlier this year, two guinean PBL and a ansorgii, guinean as well. All around the 10" mark. The laps have started to eat pellets during quarantine but the ansorgii did not. For the whole month, I never seen it eat. I tried...

Hi everyone its me again. I have not been on MFK for a year, but I'm back because of my bichir. She has been with me for a year and a half now and after everything I've tried, such as general cure, salt, and high temps, she is still quite skinny and eats very little. She hasnt grown much in the...

I really need help because there is no way I can keep a bunch of feeders longterm as I don't have the tank. I have a 55, but I haven't even started cycling the canister filter yet. Any help is appreciated(and my Paratilapia polleni only eats at night so I'm not sure how much he eats and any...

So I have recently adopted three baby bichirs from school. They were doing fine, but my one Senegal has formed a massive lump on his belly that has been there for a few weeks. Some days its a little larger, but it has been growing, and it's still their even when I starve. He is eating and is...

I know I've been told that I shouldn't add any more fish to my current stock (a juvenile peacock bass, small Clown knifefish, small pleco, smallish black ear pangasius) but I would like a bichir as well. This won't be my first time; I had a dinosaur bichir in my old tank who had quite a...

Hi guys so as you guys might have guessed, I am new and this is my second thread :) The first thread i asked you guys if buying this lap was worth it for 50 and many of you said yes. So, I bought it and actually was able to get a 9.5 inch (not 13 inch) for 40 bucks... I will post pictures...

My Endi bichir eats very slow. I put the food right in front of him yet he lets it sit in front of him for sometimes up to a minute or more before he eats it. He also rarely moves from this one hiding spot he has, and is just overall a inactive fish. alive had him for about 3 weeks and he's...

hey guys just brout polypterus bichir to my tank. and need help in identifying it im new to the bichir business ( kind of new to monsterfishkeepers too) already have senegal. albino senegal. endlicheri. endlicheri ash ( thats what the owner of the shop told me ).anessrogi. delhezi. and ornates...

My endlicheri is currently trying to swallow my smaller Senegalus as I type. My main concern is that the endlicheri will die trying to swallow this meal, and as the Senegalus is already dead. Part of me wants to let nature take its course but I do not want my endlicheri to suffocate trying to...

Whats up MFK members, I just did a very large water change and I'm going out of town today for thanksgiving. I haven't fed my polys in 2 days but I have 3 feeders in there and all the bichirs were stalking them so I'm pretty sure their hungry but (1) do you know if water changes would disrupt...