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Its been a while, and I know this has been covered before, ....just wondered what some of you are feeding your big alligator snappers.
I'm still getting used to mine. Sometimes he eats , sometimes not.
Sometimes there's leftover things everywhere , or theres pieces of un-eaten stuff everywhere.
What do you guys feed your big guys?

How big are you talking?? I have a 13" one that I feed frozen smelts from the grocery store, dead rats, crawfish, and loads of fruit.
Matt

One of mine is 17" ( about 35 pounds )
The other is 22" ( about 85 pounds)
What kind of fruit do you give? Right now I've been feeding a lot of chicken drumsticks and turkey necks. Sometimes in the morning its all gone, sometimes its all still there. Kind of like whatever mood they happen to be in. I'v enever really seen them eat, its always at night.

I have a male that is around 19 inch shell length and 70 lbs. In his stocktank he has about 10 five inch Oscars, 2 4-5 inch dozen goldfish, 10-20 five inch shiners and up til a few weeks ago, a few crawfish living around a big log, which I assume he eats once in a while. I saw an oscar floating the other day and now its gone so I guess he got ahold of it. Besides what he may catch out of that crew he gets about 4 whole baby chickens per week. I also had a friend collect a bunch of acorns which I put in there because I read a study that showed they eat them very frequently in the wild.

Kevin