Feeding my BGK With Lean Beef

[OlgaMolga]

I'm raising my first Black Ghost knife fish and so far he's a happy camper, I have him in my 20 gallon aquarium for starters and then move him up to a 65 gallon tank once my bf builds a custom aquarium tank stand. I enjoy the smaller tank for now because I believe that he will get used of me as his owner for the mean time. I placed tubing underneath this fake rocks, and he enjoys swimming in the jet black tubes and up the rocks. It's a cave system up in there and when I have the lights on for my plants that I inserted after taking out the plastic plants, only because I didnt want him to get hurt by it. The tank has a total of four occupants, A betta that is named blue, They get along, the betta is very curious lil bugger, I have a gold spotted plecco and a cory cat. I am soon to get more cory cats as well.

Now that I've explained the situation, I read on some forums what they are feeding their BGK and I decided to try the most lean ground beef I could buy and he seems to enjoy it so much, I heard because ground beef has fat in it , the BGK won't be able to digest it properly. Anyone think this is a bad idea? My blue betta enjoys it as well! They eat the same diets lol. as well as dried blood worms and fish flakes and the BGK named Spartacus eats some sunken pellets as well. Here is a video of him eating the ground beef.

DISCLAIMER: The blue betta had a stress attack moving him into another tank during a water change so that's why his fins don't look healthy but over the past week he has grown them back and he is happier than ever.

Here is my youtube link to watch the feeding.

 

[goldface]

I'd go back to feeding with your regular fish food. Mammilain protein for fish isn't healthy longterm.

 

[OlgaMolga]

I'd go back to feeding with your regular fish food. Mammilain protein for fish isn't healthy longterm.

Occasional once in a blue moon is okay? or rather just avoid it completly, this is my first feeding of lean ground beef btw.

 

[goldface]

I'd avoid it completely. Try frozen food instead, like bloodworms and daphnia. Come spring, I like to dig for earthworms (only for relatively larger fidh) and collect mosquito larvae, things that are more natural and appropriate for fish to eat and digest.

 

[OlgaMolga]

Update, He enjoys Boiled BroccolI as well <3
I'm feeding him also Red Worms, which I'll be cultivating soon soon as well!

 

[AngryRainbow]

BGK are strict carnivores. I would think you should avoid feeding it broccoli. Try some meaty pellets to give him variety. Mine takes cichlid pellets, carnivore pellets, and shrimp pellets pretty happily.

 

[OlgaMolga]

thank you, this is more informative than my LFS. He only recommended redworms!
I will buy them soon

 

[AngryRainbow]

No problem. Mine also takes frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, krill, and worms.

I'm no expert but I tried to do as much research as I could when I got mine since I wasn't given much info either. There's plenty of info on their diets and other requirements online you can check out too.

What are the dimensions of the 65 gallon he's going into? You may need to upgrade him again in the future, they get quite large