ouch

yeah i have been thinking about how to vary the diet of my L260 as well, not just meat-based pellets and frozen foods. they show a little interest in zucchini, but maybe peas will do. i usually feed sweet peas to my BN plecs in the same tank.

wow that is one fat male. idk much about plecos yet but that looks like he is bloated.
hopefully just a really well fed male lol. i can tell someone overfeeds their zebras

they all feed at the same spot - right next to my pleco caves. it is the dark spot in the tank and all my plecos love hanging out here. On the left of my tank. I gave them zucchini last evening and the BNs ate it, even L260 were so hungry they were in the brawl over it as well - but maybe they were ...

died has a big impact but sun helps too

Those aren't ugly haha! nice fish

I have these guys (6 of the black-striped ones, and 2 albino bristlenoses)

yeah the problem is with just one albino bristlenose male that i raised from an egg, so I am attached to him. his counterpart is a female who is growing fast and is healthy, but this male not only slowed down in growth, now he got really fat in the last days. never happened to him before. if i starv...

my BNs do get zucchini often and sometimes peas, but i guess ever since i got L260 i have been feeding meaty foods a lot every night and that's what probably did him in. I'll try to feed more greens for the BNs while feeding the meaty stuff every other day for the L260. L260 don't get bloat from too...

I'll try to get some thanks!

i actually raised these guys from fry on a pea diet, so maybe that i havent fed them peas in a long time messed them up?

Hi, My albino BN pleco juvenile is getting very fat and has been like that for 3 days now. usually when he eats well he deflates overnight, but not anymore. i am afraid that this is bloat. he got it for no apparent reason. i do overfeed my tank a lot at night for my new L260, but am now going to fee...

maybe he got overworked and too much into breeding. then chemically something bad happened to him or internal damage somehow occurred in his attempts. just really bad luck i'd say. try again!

just hope for the best. males in breeding mood don't eat much anyway.

yeah i'd separate them completely

i have L260 and i know they dont come out in day at all yet so i feed at night and i see them out on the driftwood at night sometimes. but they hide fast. it's just their natural behavior reinforced by their genetics. if you feel that you can condition them to feed in day for viewing, then feel free...

from the ebay pics it looks like it might be a female but from your pics it looks like a male so it could be either one. I'd buy from aquabid and not ebay on more expensive plecs like this. i am almost 100% those are not green dragon as advertised. the blurry photos just dramatize the greenish color...

yeah the first pic is not a BN pleco. second pic is a female BN pleco and the last two pics are males. the third pic has bristles up in the face area so not female. just a later developing male. as mentioned they are not green dragons, just regular BNs. still really nice plecos. i used to breed them...

i believe that BN plecos also have glue on their eggs. they stick very well to rock and even glass surfaces and it is difficult to get them off w/o damaging a few.

there have been times when mine would eat only the inside, and times when they would eat only the outside.
BOOM

He spawns Laciancistrus, obviously
haha just kidding. very nice !

I do not believe there is anything wrong with feeding cucumber either. I do feed zucchini if i have it in my fridge though

be aware that cucumber has the least amount of calories of any vegetable. zucchini should have way more than cucumber.
i'd say zucchini is overall a better choice.

cool tank.
wow how do those neons survive in there?

also what species of plecs do you keep in here? i see one but idk what it is

are the sunnies food for the bigger fishes and at the same time display dither fish?
really cool tank!

just some update pictures. first one is an update on the L260. you can find 3 in that picture
second is the cory who is growing.

you have a variety of fish in there
but i thought i saw some Chinese algae eaters. you may not want to keep those permanently. they get vicious.
EDIT: nevermind, i thin kthey are in your QT tank now

Thanks for the tips. I'll see about the harlequin rasbora. if my store has either the diamonds or the harlequins i'll try to get some. but first i'll need to get $$

I got some new swords for my tank I am looking to get some Diamond tetras instead of my neons because they have been slowly dropping off due to neon tetra disease and it seems unavoidable at this point. my one cardinal tetras has outlived all neon tetras in my tank. he is really colorful and strong....

Yeah that struck me as odd too. i never see mine in daylight either.
the second pic might be a film now that i look at it again, or it could be overexposure in the photo, since none of the other photos show the film as clearly.

I didn't know plecos even got films up until you told me

Covered in a film? What?
Is there really a film over the fish in that picture, because what i see are the shiny spikes on the scales all over the body. Most plecos have this "shine"

how do you keep this tank so clean? the sand is so free of debris, and there are a lot of fish. also how do you keep this tank snail free?