SigEpRudy
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I recently came into a 75 gallon mixed cichlid tank with a 10" pleco. I am having trouble feeding the pleco. The cichlids devour everything I throw in there. I don't want to overfeed but also don't want that beautiful pleco to starve. There isn't much if any algae and the only thing I've seen him eat were a couple of the smaller fairy cichlids (brichardi).
I feed Aqueon floating pellets with NLS sinking pellets every 36-48 hours. These disappear in about 2 minutes. Sundays I feed shelled peas which they tear apart and give enough so that some are left on the bottom (assume pleco does get some of these). I throw in algae wafers at night sometimes but the cichlids eat them before the pleco even moves.
Ideas?
I feed Aqueon floating pellets with NLS sinking pellets every 36-48 hours. These disappear in about 2 minutes. Sundays I feed shelled peas which they tear apart and give enough so that some are left on the bottom (assume pleco does get some of these). I throw in algae wafers at night sometimes but the cichlids eat them before the pleco even moves.
Ideas?