
^^^ that's herb when he was a baby (and the only pic i have of him right now)...anyway, herb is an L200 purchased from a small independent LFS whose specialty is exotic plecos and i have dealt with them exclusively since my first 20 gal. when i was in grade school...his belly was fat when i bought him and he is still totally healthy one year later...the only thing i don't understand is he loved raw (washed) zucchini (not boiled/blanched/whatever) and then about a month later, he got sick of it...so i tried some raw yellow squash...and again...he loved it...for 3 months...so i gave him raw yellow potato...and he thought it was awesome...for 3 months :wall: ...so i tried raw red potato...and he liked those up until a few weeks ago...i started getting worried when i'd change out the potato and there was none eaten...so i broke down and went with the lowest moisture, "all vegetable" algae discs i could find...i know, i know...but he's eating them and i'm a little confused as to why he'd prefer some manufactured crap over real "live" vegetables all of a sudden...herb is (and always has been) very comfortable...so comfortable in fact, that he eats during the day and actually hangs out with my green cories...i have a 55 long with a fluval 305 canister underneath and 2 aquaclear 50 HOB's on top so there's more than enough filtration for the other 4 black skirt tetras, 1 white skirt tetra, 5 serpae tetras, 4 glo-light tetras, 11 neons, 4 adult and 4 baby cories, and 2 hatchet fish (who aren't from the amazon, but look cool up high in the water column lol)...oh, and an apple snail...oh, wait...AND 4 small zebra danios who are still alive that were used to cycle the tank when i originally set it up 3 years ago...water paramaters are where they should be...and i vacuum one half of the gravel, clean all filters (media and housings) and do a 25% water change every sunday...religiously...um...sorry...i'm totally rambling...if anyone can suggest some other veggies to try or maybe just some thoughts on the situation, i'd really appreciate it...thx...
edit : i forgot my 5 pristella tetras...whoops!
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