Pleco won't eat

[bkiggy]

Any advice or tricks to get apleco to eat? He is a blue Eyed lemon about two years old... His favorite things are zucchini, Thera-a pellets, normal catfish pellets, all of his food gets a little garlic guard from SECHEM soaked in
He's really not eating any of it, he could easily mowed down a piece of zucchini in one night there would be nothing left..... I put in a piece of zucchini every night for a week didn't touch it
---- he has to be eating something because he's not dead


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[Brookster123]

I never see mine eat either, it's growing and fat as John candy so it has to be eating something. . I think they just go full scavenger mode at night and eat whatever"s there for scraps.. i throw in shrimp or krill pellets at night once a week and a veggie wafer another night.

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[BBradbury]

Your Pleco

Hello bk...

Fish get tired of the same diet. Like we would. I have several of these guys, one that's an 8 inch small horse. He seems to thrive on frozen foods. I feed the rest of the fish a variety of frozen, cubed food from San Fran Bay. They have several kinds and even some for the vegetable eaters that like a little meat sometimes. My Plecos like a little flaked food from Cobalt along with the usual algae wafers and such from Akari and Tetra. Freeze dried tubifex is a treat. I also feed a little minced garlic from Spice World. It's high vitamin and has some natural antibiotics.

B

 

[Brookster123]

While I agree with b in theory... i feel there is no actual way to determine whether or not fish require variety. Can't hurt though..

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[anteatergoanna]

Mine love cucumber, doesn't matter what time I put it in, he's scoffing it along side the fish, also fresh crushed garlic, he will clean up what the fish leave.


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[bkiggy]

Mine have never eaten cuccumber -
I have New Era Pleco wafer too. Seems to like that. Well, I still haven't seen him eat. (I have literally watched him eat for 2 years)
I guess we'll see
I keep changing it up ........


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[Bloodroot]

garlic is good for plecos? like a small chunk?

I just got one two days ago and he is already showing his personality! Scared of me at the moment, even got to see him flare!!! Didn't know they did that!

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[bkiggy]

Garlic is a natural anti parasitic, antibiotic, antiviral -- but it just plain tastes good!! It stimulates fish sense of smell and they want to eat it.. Garlic Guard by Seachem is a great product. Just soak food it in for couple seconds.
You can use regular garlic just make sure it is WATER based in the jar
Thera-A pellets has garlic in it. One of my fish favorite food.


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