What's your Plecos favorite thing to eat?
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My Pleco absolutely LOVES grapes with the skin peeled off of them. He will literally eat the whole thing in about an hour!
He hates algae wafers though.. won't even go near them!
He hates algae wafers though.. won't even go near them!
lol you spoil it. i feed mine zuchinni and tehy finish it overnight. havent tried any fruits yet.
Mine eats some snail biscuits I make for my snails... mostly spinach, zucchini, and cucumber in them with a few shrimp pellets and algae wafers.
I don't know what her favorite food is. She defends all of her various foods as if they're her favorite. She eats everything and has a fat belly.
I don't do fruits anymore because for some reason they cloud my water quickly.
I don't know what her favorite food is. She defends all of her various foods as if they're her favorite. She eats everything and has a fat belly.
I don't do fruits anymore because for some reason they cloud my water quickly.
Mine loves organic squash from the garden, peeled grapes, melon of all kinds, kiwi, and mango. Mango is his fav but it messes up my water quality really bad, really fast so he only gets it once in a while right before a water change. He also likes salmon and shrimp, asparagus, broccoli.
OK now I'm hungry 8)
OK now I'm hungry 8)
Mine love zucchini and lettuce. Someone just gave me a huge amount of kale, but I'm nervous about what cabbagey things will do to the water. Any thoughts?
I have ancistrus cats.
I will try fruit before a water change, based on the the above posts.
I have ancistrus cats.
I will try fruit before a water change, based on the the above posts.
I haven't tried cabbage.... or even lettuce for that matter. Every time I put a piece of lettuce in there, it just floats and it drives me crazy! How do you anchor it down.. Or do you just let it float?
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I bought a big basket of mixed yellow squash/zucchinis. I sliced them into ~ 1/4" thick discs and froze 'em.
I use one of those tacky 'clownfish' suction cup clips.
I just clip a slice in the tank every couple days and remove it the next day. plec and goldfish all eat it. Sometimes I add some lettuce or cabbage if I have extra. watermelon rind with just a hint of red left on it is a nice treat....we've seen the pleco dragging it all over the tank when it came loose from the clip.
pleco will eat the algae wafers too...but so will the Goldfish! I bought some "King British" brand pleco tablets while in the UK last week. They're heavier than the algae wafers and sink faster. Plec was slapping the GF with his tail to keep them away from his treat.:hitting:
I use one of those tacky 'clownfish' suction cup clips.
I just clip a slice in the tank every couple days and remove it the next day. plec and goldfish all eat it. Sometimes I add some lettuce or cabbage if I have extra. watermelon rind with just a hint of red left on it is a nice treat....we've seen the pleco dragging it all over the tank when it came loose from the clip.
pleco will eat the algae wafers too...but so will the Goldfish! I bought some "King British" brand pleco tablets while in the UK last week. They're heavier than the algae wafers and sink faster. Plec was slapping the GF with his tail to keep them away from his treat.:hitting:
I have tried about every vegie their is and his favorite seems to be zuchinni & Mango. He loves Spirulina wafers. He grabs it from where ever it lands when I throw it in and takes it under a big rock. If any other fish tries to go under their when he is eating it they get run off.
Every single Pleco before this one used to LOVE algae wafers.. But this one won't touch them. He's the only fish in the whole aquarium who doesn't like them!