Rubber Lip Pleco Eating Habits?

I'm just curious at this point as I now have more plecos to compare him too. I have an orange seam, and rubberlip pleco. The orange seam will eat literally anything has since day one and is out and visible frequently. My older rubber lip pleco I have had probably 3+years I have seen him eat a wafer one time usually they just go untouched and start to gunk up the tank, he's not interested in pellets, or bug bites, doesn't like pepper, celery, lettuce, zucchinI or cucumber cooked or raw. And maybe twice ever I have seen him go for frozen brine shrimp. I don't have visible algae in the tank he's in, my live plants look unharmed, he does have a driftwood chunk. Obviously he's eating or he wouldn't be with me still. Any thoughts? He hides most if the day but I see him regularly especially in the evening.

 

Probably eating at night and also using the driftwood. Depending on the size of the tank it might not even need suppliments or you could reduce them to every few days or weekly

 

Probably eating at night and also using the driftwood. Depending on the size of the tank it might not even need supplisuppl or you could reduce them to every few days or weekly

Yeah this is what I figured I know he doesn't touch the food even at night because I remove it in the morning but he does have live plants that he seems to leave alone and the wood. I'm just curious what keeps him so fat and happy. I wouldn't think those are enough

 

In the wild, they live in cool, clear, fast-flowing rivers with lots of stones on the bottom. They usually eat the algae and aufwuchs that grow on those rocks.

 

Everything in the tank grows a bacteria that helps denitrify the tank. All the glass, ornaments, and especially the driftwood. That's what they eat.

 

they eat soft driftwood and blanched lettus and brine shrimp and micro wafers they will all so eat boild pumpkin they are night feeders

 

Sorry to say guys but that is a lot of in-/halfcorrect info in my experience

Mine is not a nightfeeder
Mine doesn't eat driftwood
Mine hardly eat vegs and is mainly carnivorious (info on the internet is mostly false). Some species are.more herbivorious btw
Aufwuchs (that they eat) is something completely different than the socalled beneficial bacteria (they don't feed on those).

 

Sorry to say guys but that is a lot of in-/halfcorrect info in my experience

Mine is not a nightfeeder
Mine doesn't eat driftwood
Mine hardly eat vegs and is mainly carnivorious (info on the internet is mostly false). Some species are.more herbivorious btw
Aufwuchs (that they eat) is something completely different than the socalled beneficial bacteria (they don't feed on those).

This is interesting (all the info is thanks everyone) the few times I have seen him eat are actually earlier in the day and the most interest I have seen from him is over frozen brine shrimp which I don't feed often. Mostly I was just curious because all the internet info I pull up is plecos go crazy for anything veggies he has not ever touched a veggie I put in over the years then I see my new pleco in a different tank go crazy over most anything morning or night. His new tank is not stones but eco complete that he aranges and mounds as he pleases. I will get him more rocks