What Should I Feed My BN Plecos?

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Hi! I am fairly new to pleco owning/breeding. but I was wondering if anyone knows what I should feed my BN plecos on a day-to-day weekly basis?-
I am not rlly sure what to feed them rn. besides cucumbers, zucchini, and some algae wafers. If anyone knows what is good for them, pls lmk ^^.
 

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In addition to what’s already been mentioned, Repashy foods are also great if you can get them - bottom scratcher, soilent green, and morning wood are all good varieties. My BN also go nuts for sheets of seaweed (I buy Omega One brand), though I don’t feed it that often.
 
In addition to what’s already been mentioned, Repashy foods are also great if you can get them - bottom scratcher, soilent green, and morning wood are all good varieties. My BN also go nuts for sheets of seaweed (I buy Omega One brand), though I don’t feed it that often.
I can second repashy the plecos like them. Each pleco is different so you have to find what they like with trial and error. Mine dont touch spinach. They really like green beans(french cut from the can). Broccoli, peas, i also feed ebo fish foods, a german brand i think, also you could try pleco ceramics diy paste. They also seem to do well on north fin kelp wafers. You could try ultra fresh wafers, heard good things about xtreme scrapers.
 
Ultrafresh vegie wafers are great, Its call vegetables shrimp pie. A lot of Algae wafers have poor ingredients though, and not worth your money, or the fishes energy digesting it.
The earlier mentioned repashy are great,
mustard greens pack a lot of vitamins! Dandelion weeds growing in your garden are gold, as long as you dont use chemicals in your yard

I just finished making food for my fish, mostly for my pleco who is growing, but has tattered fins for some reason. If you want the recipie let me know.

So, I went a little overboard, because I had a lot of this stuff in the house already,
Also, if its for a snail you may want to add pulverized tums, or calcium powder.

this is what I used to make omnivore fish food-
the veggies -
Bok choy
green beans and some of the water from the can
chick peas and can water
3 Nori sheets
1 Garlic clove = raw garlic may not be good for snails!
Carrots
Spirulina
Mushrooms
Dandelion greens
After food processing this, it filled up a 32 oz container.

Then i Added meat to the food processer, which you probably don't need for herbivore snails.
steamed - shrimp, scallops, salmon and tilapia filete,
I boiled egg,
cricket flour,
Zoo meds Can O Cyclops.
And that was more like 20 oz. after going through the food processor

mix it all together, then pore or spoon it onto a glass pan in a thin, maybe quarter inch layer, Put it in the oven on 250 until it is dry as a bone, unfortunately Im not sure how long it took, because a I kept stopping to check it and opening the oven, and I even turned to oven off so I could take a nap. but maybe 4 hours?

Then when the pan is cool enough, use a butter knife or spatula to peel it off, It was easy, it was not terribly stuck! Break it up, store in jars or freezer bags.

Yes, it takes a minute to sink, and they bop it around, then when it does sink, evan the middle dwelling rainbow fish are at the bottom of the tank eating it. More importantly I have seen the pleco go for it.
 

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In a nut shell a mix of meat and greens; doesn't really matter if the greens come from algae, zuc or simliar fresh veggie, algae wafer, rasph food, ... the wood is required and it should be soft not hardwood which is bad for their teeth.

I mostly let mine fend for themselves but do toss in some algae wafer now and then; one of these days i need to catch em and give them away as they are kind of annoying with constant breeding and such.
 
Canned French cut green beans are popular with breeders.
Noted. Mine are notorious nerds when it comes to mating lol. Perfect conditions? Nah. Back in the community tank? LETS PARTY!!!
lol
 

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Ultrafresh vegie wafers are great, Its call vegetables shrimp pie. A lot of Algae wafers have poor ingredients though, and not worth your money, or the fishes energy digesting it.
The earlier mentioned repashy are great,
mustard greens pack a lot of vitamins! Dandelion weeds growing in your garden are gold, as long as you dont use chemicals in your yard

I just finished making food for my fish, mostly for my pleco who is growing, but has tattered fins for some reason. If you want the recipie let me know.

So, I went a little overboard, because I had a lot of this stuff in the house already,
Also, if its for a snail you may want to add pulverized tums, or calcium powder.

this is what I used to make omnivore fish food-
the veggies -
Bok choy
green beans and some of the water from the can
chick peas and can water
3 Nori sheets
1 Garlic clove = raw garlic may not be good for snails!
Carrots
Spirulina
Mushrooms
Dandelion greens
After food processing this, it filled up a 32 oz container.

Then i Added meat to the food processer, which you probably don't need for herbivore snails.
steamed - shrimp, scallops, salmon and tilapia filete,
I boiled egg,
cricket flour,
Zoo meds Can O Cyclops.
And that was more like 20 oz. after going through the food processor

mix it all together, then pore or spoon it onto a glass pan in a thin, maybe quarter inch layer, Put it in the oven on 250 until it is dry as a bone, unfortunately Im not sure how long it took, because a I kept stopping to check it and opening the oven, and I even turned to oven off so I could take a nap. but maybe 4 hours?

Then when the pan is cool enough, use a butter knife or spatula to peel it off, It was easy, it was not terribly stuck! Break it up, store in jars or freezer bags.

Yes, it takes a minute to sink, and they bop it around, then when it does sink, evan the middle dwelling rainbow fish are at the bottom of the tank eating it. More importantly I have seen the pleco go for it.
Do you put water in this after you take it out of the food processor? Prolly a dumb question. Do you put something in it to bind it together?
 
None of my fish will touch fresh or canned veggies. So they get Xtreme foods instead. Mix of flakes, pellets, and wafers.

Considering my son's albino sailfin pleco is over a foot long, he was only a few inches when we bought him, I'd say we're doing something right.
 
Do you put water in this after you take it out of the food processor? Prolly a dumb question. Do you put something in it to bind it together?
Not a dumb question at all.
I Added some water from a can of green beens, and there was already water from the ingrediants, I used a Zoo meds can o cyclops, and a Zoo meds can o worms, and the consistancy was like thick pancake mix. But the majority of the water comes later. If your gelitine mix says, "mix the powder into one cup of boiling water, then add one cup of cold water," You simply skip the cold water, and add up to one cup of the ground food mix instead, and stir it pour it, it will take a little longer to set in the fridge, because it will take longer to get cold, but it will work.
 
None of my fish will touch fresh or canned veggies. So they get Xtreme foods instead. Mix of flakes, pellets, and wafers.

Considering my son's albino sailfin pleco is over a foot long, he was only a few inches when we bought him, I'd say we're doing something right.
I might have to try some more xtreme foods i just have the fry food and its one of the most received by all my fish.
 
Not a dumb question at all.
I Added some water from a can of green beens, and there was already water from the ingrediants, I used a Zoo meds can o cyclops, and a Zoo meds can o worms, and the consistancy was like thick pancake mix. But the majority of the water comes later. If your gelitine mix says, "mix the powder into one cup of boiling water, then add one cup of cold water," You simply skip the cold water, and add up to one cup of the ground food mix instead, and stir it pour it, it will take a little longer to set in the fridge, because it will take longer to get cold, but it will work.
So bake it then put it in gelatin?
 
If you are making gel food,
put the veggies in the food processor, you can steam harder food like carrot or cabadge, but you dont need to, the food processor makes it so small and easy to eat.
If you are adding meat like fish, I lightly steam it in food steamer, then put it in the food processor. I added some vita chem fish vitamins, then made the boiling gelatine, then mixed the two. one cup of the food mix and one cup of boiled gelitine, stir it and pour it were you want it. candy molds ae one option, but a dish makes one solid gel that you can slice,

If you want to make Make dry fish food,

Procees the food, the vitamens...
Pour that into a glass baking pan, "It should be a very thing layer", "I did not line it or grease it".
Bake on low heat 160 degrees or so, It takes hours, but when its bone dry, you have the best fish food money can buy. if you have a food dehydrator, use that!
 

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