Sabi

I just missed taking a shot of algy sucking marrow.

Trpimp147

hmms i seen that the other night almost 10000, and you still have the time to attend to you fish heheh

COBettaCouple

my clone handles the fish.

Allie

Cute pix guys....this is one topic I cannot add a pix. My plecos are barely out.. :

armadillo

Pfff, you think you've got it bad. We bought a leopard pleco like 3 months ago, and we've seen him 3 times. not the hole of him either!

neverendingninja

Since getting my ottos and BN, I've been feeding cucumber and brocolli, and let me tell you guys, everyone loves it! My blue and bolivian rams, keyhole cichlid and guppies all get in on the action too, and then the corys clean up whatever ends up on the bottom!

Tonight I dropped in a few peas, and they were quickly and voraciously gobbled up.

I put in a 10" long, 1/2" thick slice of cucumber the other day, and within 5 hours, all but about a 1/4" ring near the peel was gone.

So, kudos to whoever came up with feeding cucumber, and other veggies for that matter!

armadillo

No idea who did, but I looooove trying new food on my fish! It's so much fun.

Allie

I heard that someplecos like green & yellow beans...canned, fresh or frozen. My apples snails devour them.

armadillo

Oh beans. Good ideas. I haven't tried that yet.

Butterfly

yep they like green beans also.
Carol

PPK9110

just a quick question: a cucumber like that, being uncut, how can pleco eat it? even mollies...do you chop it?

Butterfly

Cut it in half long ways or across in a slice, weight it down and feed it to your plecos. go back and look at some of the pics and you will see what I mean
Carol

Beeboy

Can you feed:

1. Lettuce
2. Corn
3. Potatoes
4. Asperagus
5. Pumkin
6. Banana
7. Apple
8. Grape
9. Carrot
10. Beet


I don't have a veggie clip, can I tie my vegetables to a rock with a bit of fishing line?

Beeboy

armadillo

It's really funny, I pretty much alwyas leave a fresh slice in my tanks, so they can snack between meals. And I always know when the pleco had anything to do with the demise of the cucumber: it's stripped clean. Completely. There's just this ominous ring left. It's really funny how thorough a job plecos do on it.

With my mollies, it takes way longer, and there's always at least bits of flesh left.

Callum The Cat

armadillo

You can either:
- parboil it: boil it in very little water. That's not worked so great for me (still floated)
- weight it down with a plant weight. they sell aquarium-safe metal clips used to hold plants down at most fish stores.
- weigh it down under something heavier like a decoration. That's not worked so good for me as it gets all mushy and leaves goo on the decoration.
- put it in a food clip. it's called veggie clip in fish stores I think. it's got a sucker pad on one end, and a plastic clip on the other. I just put my cucumber slice in the clip et voila! That's my fave method.

COBettaCouple

you could also hire a small child to stand there and hold it all day long.

gremlin

My pleco and two chinese algae eaters are out in my pond so I don't get to watch them eat too much. I have a couple of large flat rocks sitting on brick to make caves for them and my goldfish to swim in. The top of the rocks are about 1/4" to 3" below the surface so they grow LOTS of moss. My mom used to scrub them off every week or so. Last Sunday I told her not to scrub them and I put them down in the bottom of the pond. There was a good 1" of moss on a rock about 15" by 9". It was stripped clean the next morning. Looked like the rock had never had moss on it. I'll have to try the cucumber/squash thing too.

Callum The Cat

COBettaCouple

great pics!

Callum The Cat

armadillo

I wish my fish ate lettuce. They don't seem to take to it.

COBettaCouple

perhaps, it's not the kind of lettuce they like.. they have refined tastes, you know..

armadillo

Well, kidding aside, you might be right, Dave. What kind of lettuce do you give them, Callum? Like iceberg, or (don't know any lettuce names, lol)

P.S. My fish still don't like garlic.

Callum The Cat

COBettaCouple

yea, i was kidding, but you're right LA - there's a big difference between iceburg and romaine lettuce for our diets and our taste. perhaps they do prefer particular types of lettuce and another type would be accepted?

callum - is your lettuce light green or dark green?

neverendingninja

Here's a sample of what 12 hours in the tank gets you



And even with that little bit being all thats left, he's still chowing down!(excuse the finger print...thats what 16 month olds do to aquariums )

armadillo

he he he. And another happy customer. The only sinister thing about that cucumber thing is that I wish my BN ate some algae, LOL.

COBettaCouple

very cool pics of your BN. he sure took care of that slice!

leximommy

ok i dont know whats safe and whats not, but i just stick the veggie to the side of the tank above the water line then slide it down...it stays and the pleco will eventually find it....lol