Da Heck is eating my plants??

[Potluck]

So I went down to trim off the transplant shock where I planted the new plants and noticed there's something turning my plants into a buffet, I have no snails anymore and no fish I'm aware of that eats plants and turns them into what looks like a serrated steak knife

My stock
6 lemon tetras
3 candy cane tetras
2 adolescent clown loaches
1 Turquoise rainbow
2 Buenos Aires tetra
1 black phantom tetra
1 calico BN

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[Brookster123]

Pleco

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[flchamp89]

I concur.

 

[Potluck]

Son of a beep.... How do I get him to stop he eats algae wafers and once every 2 weeks blanched zucchini...

 

[coralbandit]

My clowns no longer allow plants in tank.
They must be eaten within 24 hours!
If you even think there could be snails in the tank, on plants I bet the clowns....

 

[Potluck]

Looks like something with teeth lol, I'm like da heck a Plecos can make those marks?

 

[Potluck]

My clowns no longer allow plants in tank.
They must be eaten within 24 hours!
If you even think there could be snails in the tank, on plants I bet the clowns....

I do notice the clowns in my plants constantly but the ones they hide in don't have chew marks

 

[Potluck]

I have seen my BN hanging off my fake tree but not my plants, im gonna turn my lights off and sit back with some popcorn and watch for the culprit

Then I'm throwing him in fishing jail

 

[Potluck]

I'm stealth Mode

 

[Potluck]

Couldn't find the culprit I guess I'll know when I see one poops sagitaria lol, but there's also a fish digging holes lol I'm pretty sure I know it's the clowns on that

 

[joem6376]

My bristlenose digs when the lights are off, it could be him and the clowns could be nipping at the plants

 

[jessipanda]

My BN eats plants. Started giving him more veggies during the week and he stopped eating my plants. He gets a brussel sprout, a piece of spinach, and a slice of zucchini every week. Took him destroying all my stem plants to realize once a week + wafers weren't enough.

 

[Potluck]

Still haven't seen him eating the plants but I'm not watching the tank 24-7 either, but I will try veggies a couple times a week all my fish eat them

 

[grattu]

I used to have a sailfin pleco and that guy would shred everything when I wasn't looking

 

[Potluck]

I used to have a sailfin pleco and that guy would shred everything when I wasn't looking

I have a calico BN