What is your bristlenose pleco's favorite foods?

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I am growing my first community tank, my first fish tank ever, and I just added a 5" albino bristlenose pleco. He is magnificent! Orange with lots of bristles. I want all of my fish to eat the best foods I can offer them. So to all the bristlenose pleco owners out there - what is your plecos' favorite foods? How do you prepare the foods, and how do you offer them in the tank?
Thank you.
"Cleaner" thanks you too (my 3 1/2 yr old names the fish).
 
I've had my BN for a little over a week and have been feeding him cucumber stuffed with various goodies such as shrimp pellets, algae discs, frozen blood worms, tubifex worms, and brine shrimp. He looks like he munches around the stuffing but the cories take care of that. I'm going to vary his foods every now and then too, maybe try some green beans, spinach or carrots...

I also throw in an algae disc every other day but never see him eat it. That doesn't mean he isn't eating it, just that he might be sneaky about it.
 
wish I knew. I have 2 and never seen them. they hide under the log. so I drop pellets , tubifex to the bottom and cucumber at night.
 
Mine love Zucchini and spinach. I use veggie clips (Round Slices). Also, I use spirulina tabs, Algae discs, and soft spirulina bites.
 
The favorite food of mine is romaine lettuce leaves. They only like the outer darker leaves. I clip two leaves in (9 growing plecos) and leave it in the tank until it is just ready to fall apart (the veins that are left). They like zuchinni but not as much and the zuchinni fouls my filter faster. I give them romaine a few times a week. They are always hungry so they also like shrimp pellets, kens veggie pellets, frozen bloodworms and earthworm pellets. For the zuchinni I cut a wedge of it, take most of the seeds off and put a small fork, like a shrimp cocktail fork, through the end of it to hold it on the bottom.
 
mine devour everything lol
Zuccini does do that but i think i got it where it wont .
buy the smallest in the store dont blanch it cut into slices (only 2 to 3) and i push it on a spoon im finding they eat the middle first with easier access.
i use
zuccini, english cucumber ,sweet potato , eggplant (squash)just about any type.
green beans peas carrot , but they are very difficult to keep down .
nutrafin sinking pellets ,shrimp pellets ,,algae wafers .

but not too much of everything and i alternate .
 
I blanch the zucchini. Cut it into slices, boil for only a minute, then remove and put into ice cold water immediately. I then freeze them so that they last longer and just pull one out and thaw it when I'm ready. When I drop them into the tank they sink so I don't use a weight. They do move around the bottom a little bit because they're not very heavy, but the plecos have no problem finding them. That's what I do at least.

As for the peas, buy the frozen ones then thaw what you need in water. I de-skin them then dump them in and they sink no problem.
 
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