New Senegal Bichir Owner

[Hendre]

Congrats on starting out with your first Polypterus!

Bichirs have a very strong sense of smell, so blood works is a good choice to start, but I personally like to feed crushed up hikari carnivore pellets and/or finely chopped bits of raw shrimp or tilapia.

As it gets more size on it, it will hide a lot less

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It will fill out quickly apparently. I don't have enough experience to say but I have heard they grow very fast when small

 

[magpie]

If he doesn't start to be less shy in 2-3 days let us know but I bet he will.

 

[jaws7777]

I had to move my sen from the poly comm, hrs now the lone poly in a 150 with a few small heterospilus and to my surprise hides all the time. I think adding will help