Frozen Blood Worms And Bichirs

[Cerbios]

Allright so far so good my new ( and first bichir) has been very active swimming around with little fear or concern of the tanks other inhabitants: a pleco and tiger barb who cycled the tank. My bichir is very small >2inches. For food I got him freeze dried blood worms but they float. He's been searching the tank bottom for food. I like to know from someone with experience, do I need to go get a new sinking food, or will these things sink. It's not that hes afraid of the surface I just don't know if he knows to look for food there. They're typically bottom feeders I've read. I should have asked the LFS what they were feeding them but forgot among other concerns,

 

[england]

How do you feed the frozen bloodworm? i add boiling water in a cup then remove packaging after and add once cooled down, it sink's then, but my birchir goe's crazy for pellet's and chopped prawn's....he know's when prawn's are coming and he will take them straight from the water's surface, best bet at same time is get some small sinking pellet's.....Live bloodworm is another good bet

 

[dave_oddballs]

as a rule they will only forage for food on the substrate, they may go a bit higher if they smell food. I very much doubt they would travel to the surface to feed. Freeze dried bloodworm will not be suitable for a carnivorous predatory fish like a bichir. Frozen or live bloodworm would be better but prawn, shrimp, cockles and lance fish would be good. Always vary what you feed them, and all fish for that matter, to keep them healthy. I would say your tiger barb might be one of its meaty meals when it gets a little bigger! So you need a mixed diet of meaty foods that will sink to the bottom, and you should watch to make sure it gets some food as it cant see the food aswel as some other fish, it has to smell it out and search for it.

David

 

[DarkEntity]

My Palmas goes nuts for sand eel....

 

[the_evil_duboisi]

Is yours a senegal? Every single one of my senegals I've ever kept came to the surface for food within 1 week of getting it.

So I guess making them a tiny git hungry could coax them to be more eager eaters?

But if yours is not a senegal, I don't know....My particular experience was a very lazy endlicheri who took 1 minute to find food 0.5 cm from his nose....

 

[DarkEntity]

Is yours a senegal? Every single one of my senegals I've ever kept came to the surface for food within 1 week of getting it.

So I guess making them a tiny git hungry could coax them to be more eager eaters?

But if yours is not a senegal, I don't know....My particular experience was a very lazy endlicheri who took 1 minute to find food 0.5 cm from his nose....

My Palmas goes nuts for sand eel....

Polypterus Palmas, my old Senegal also did the same for Sand Eel

 

[STD]

Mine love catfish pellets