Catfish food

[vanimal]

If anybody has any kind of catfish/bottom feeder could you please tell me what you feed them and what their favorite kind of food is? Thanks any advice would be appreciated!

 

[librarygirl]

You mean like Plecos or Corys? I have Corys; they pretty much eat anything I feed the fish that falls to the bottom. I also supplement by giving them shrimp pellets or an algae wafer after lights out 2-3 times per week. Plecos also like veggies (cucumber, zucchini, etc).

 

[vanimal]

I have a pleco and an eclipse catfish. How should I give it cucumber? Should I just put a tooth pick through it into the sand so it stays at the bottom or what??

 

[Maxkolbe]

I bought a suction cup veggie clip at petco for a couple bucks. I don't know if it's very safe bit I have seen pictures of people just impaling it with a fork and letting it sink.

 

[vanimal]

Ok ill try the fork. Thanks!

 

[vanimal]

I put some cucumber in and my pleco likes it

 

[Coursair]

Ok ill try the fork. Thanks!

Stainless Steel only !

 

[Coursair]

I have a pleco and an eclipse catfish. How should I give it cucumber? Should I just put a tooth pick through it into the sand so it stays at the bottom or what??

Veggies for the Pleco. Driftwood also, many Plecos need wood.

Catfish needs meat. Fresh or frozen. Worms, shrimp, sinking pellets ( meat based ).

They will eat each others food, which is ok, BUT make sure you offer both their proper diet. All veg would starve the Catfish.

 

[vanimal]

Is it ok to feed my catfish bottom feeder tablets and shrimp pellets? Also if I find a worm outside could I give it that? And I have mopani drift wood for my pleco is that ok for him to eat? I also feed him algae thins and cucumber is all this ok and is there anything I should add to their diets? Thanks!

 

[vanimal]

Also I have blood worms but they won't sink even if soaked in water. So my catfish wont eat them

 

[Scott F]

I put some cucumber in and my pleco likes it

How well ? I've seen people here say it, and a couple vids of them eating it. i'd like to hear what you did to prep it, if anything, first hand.

My Pleco loves blood worms. My paradise tried to get in his food and got smacked with his tail nice and hard.

 

[vanimal]

Prep what?

 

[Scott F]

Did you just peel the cucumber and put it in, or was there more involved?

 

[vanimal]

Oh I just cut a thin slice off, wash it and pin it to the bottom of my tank using a tooth pick. Make sure you dull the side that sticks up and if you have a pleco he'll find it