P.senegalus diet in the wild

[jconley]

Well, they certainly will eat fish, but it seems that crabs must be an easier target. What do you think of trying to feed small FW crabs to my polys?

I feed mine fiddler crabs and crayfish every other week or so. They LOVE them!!

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

very interesting info.....love the bird leg! you gonna try it anne?

 

[beblondie]

If they can catch a bird they can eat a bird-Anne

 

[hurricane_redbone]

seeing as polys have horrible eye sight I find it quite understandable that they dont eat alot of fish... mine will eat anything thats dead or slow moving... mine have never caught a feeder

 

[jconley]

seeing as polys have horrible eye sight I find it quite understandable that they dont eat alot of fish... mine will eat anything thats dead or slow moving... mine have never caught a feeder

My upper jaws all seem more adept at chasing down feeders (on the RARE occasion that I give them). My lower jaws prefer to wait in ambush.

 

[oregonian]

re why less fish found i think it would be part of unidentifiable just because their bodies are easily digestable, bones small and thin in general. insects exoskeleton probably takes forever to digest.

i would love to see the listing of some of the large sp. stomach contents. anybody missing children?

 

[cockroach]

i reckon in a tank, fedder fish are confined and the bichirs happen on them more often. in the wild they scoot away before the bichir even sees them. crabs however are not as fast as that and tend to be on the bottom where bichirs are more commonly found.

just my 0.02

 

[Racersk]

Gonna go get a bit of crab meat and chicken meat(raided from the fridge) and check this out... I know they love bits of hot dogs, the Bala Sharks do too!

 

[Darth Scohin]

Gonna go get a bit of crab meat and chicken meat(raided from the fridge) and check this out... I know they love bits of hot dogs, the Bala Sharks do too!

Dont feed hot dogs they are HORRIBLE for your fish and can cause real issues I'd rather feed my bichirs goldfish than hotdogs

 

[TakeNotes]

Was crusin the local petshop in the city and came across one of these. For 14 bucks i couldnt resist, resembles my reed fish just fatter and short. The guy ended up only charging me 11 bucks somehow. Yay 4 me... well i put him in with my reed fish, 3 jap newts, striped raphael, crayfish, bulldog pleco and 2 firebelly toads and he has quickly become my favorite. He ate some frozen bloodworms and a shrimp pellet or two. Maybe even a feeder because he looks even fatter now. LOVE this fish. Aparently they are from the mesozoic era. Looks like it too