Severum diet?!
Answers: I have a severum in my main tank who is crazy for meaty foods. She can tear apart a whole cooked shrimp lol. But I was reading online that Severums are naturally omnivores who prefer to eat veggies than meat. I have tried to put peas in there, and blanched lettuce, but she is not interested at all. Is it ok if she is only meat, and is there any other way I can encourage her to eat her veggies
A quote I found online,
" Severums have strong vegetarian tendencies, but are not fussy about what they eat. They will readily accept frozen foods (bloodworm), flake foods (HBH South American Cichlid Frenzy) or small pellets (TetraBits). They relish live black worms and will also eat vegetables such as shelled green peas and blanched lettuce. Because they have the longer intestines of a vegetarian, they should not be fed on mammalian protein such as beefheart."
http://www.wetpetz.com/severum.html
It looks like some types of meat are better than others for your fish. As to how to entice it to eat veggies, you might want to try nutritionally balanced pellets like the site suggests, and of course, see in the Fish forum what others think. If it wasn't so late in the evening I'd call my uncle, who is a HUGE fish aficionado and has a 500 gallon fish tank with plenty of little fish in it, he knows just about everything fish-related and could talk for hours about it.
I'm afraid that this particular forum is for vegetarian people, not animals. You may have better luck in the 'pets' section.