... This for the moment is the ranking of the favorite foods of my group of L128

zuchinis
peas
green beans
sweet pepper
They don't like potatoes and fruit

I will try more in the next few days.

However for now only one specimen goes out to eat without problems in broad daylight, here is a photo of it ...

... pellets and occasionally bloodworm. They also seem to graze the oak bogwood as there is decent amount of sawdust in the tank.

I used to feed fruit and veg to them but found that clogged up the filtration way too quickly, their favourite was Papaya!

As mentioned denser things like sweet potato ...

... caves in the USA.


I found a down and dead alder tree in the woods behind the house and just used a saw to cut sections. You could do the same with oak, maple, or fruit trees. I used 1in and 1.25in diameter spade bits to drill the caves. I am considering a redue and will drill .75 and 1in caves.

I have three L-128 and one L200. They both love zucchini, watermelon, cantaloupe, bell-peppers for fruit/veg. I also feed Kelp wafers, carnivore pellets, bug bites, and repashy (Igapo Explorer and Bottom Scratcher).

... use Bottom Scratcher, Super Green, Spawn & Grow, and Morning Wood(for my 204's). Are there any others I should consider?

My fish really love Repashy Igapo Explorer, the main ingredients of which are black soldier fly larva, fruit, and squid. I think it’s only available from Swiss Tropicals.

... the water all the time. So more frequent water changes are in order. It will have much less effect on the water quality than you might imagine, the fruit is mainly water. This is one reason for trying to add some protein to the vegetables with "pressed in" pellet food etc. The same idea as Eric's ...

... option. If you can get them eating that you have more chance of long term success with them.

There isn't a huge amount of nutrients in cucurbit fruit, so I add some pellet food. I do this by putting some pellets on a plate, and then pressing the cucumber/courgette slice onto them.

Once the fish ...

... to be about 4 inches plus to breed.

Maybe try varying the diet and use some repashy foods if you don't already. My young are between 3-4 inches total length and are about 2 years old. Their staple diet is repashy fruit luups, with some bottom scratcher mixed with soilent green.

Hope this helps.

And does someone feed his plecs with banana fruit ? I think is very nutritious but dont know is it safe for them ?

... use the formula Repashy created for Swiss Tropicals called Fruut Luups.

FRUUT-LUUPS is composed of Papaya, Mango, Organic Banana, and Fig. The fruit is complemented with easily digestible Black Soldier Fly, Krill, and Squid that attract even the finickiest feeders. These top-shelf ingredients ...

... no interest.

Jobro has suggested carrot in a few threads but none of my fish seemed to like it.

I think most fish need a few nights with the fruit or vegetable in the tank to recognise it as food, but now I know they go so crazy for courgette skin, I just add that and sweet potato occasionally ...

They would also like the fruit, not just the rinds

Nice input there, Addicted. Thanks.

Papaya seems like another tropical fruit. Too bad I don't like to eat papaya myself

Papaya is quite soft, right? I feel that the softer the food, the better they like it.

It would seem to me that the majority of fruits that fish might eat need to end up in the water rather than the fish going after them "on the vine." I think that for the most part these are fairly ripe fruits that fall off on their own. Most of the best fruits probably get eaten by animals before ...

... time ago but they weren't to keen, maybe I just didn't give them enough time to see it as food.

However they really like the Fruut Luups Repashy formula, that's always gone in the morning.

There must be fruit falling into the rivers they inhabit, so I assume it would form part of their natural diet.

... chewed on them a little, but not with the enthusiasm of other veggies.

Keep in mind that technically cucumber and zucchini (courgette) are both fruits.

Have you tried searching the forums using the search term fruit?

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/search.php?keywords=fruit&fid%5B0%5D=5

I ...

Not too familiar with feeding raw fruit to fish, but I feed Repashy Fruut-Luups all the time to my plecos and Corydoras and they all love it. Great formula.

... cabbage, Chinese cabbage, carrot bits, and similar things (hardboiled eggwhite, an amputated cricket leg, and mushroom were some rarer ones), and fruit (mostly tiny bitesize banana bits and orange bits). Unfortunately, due to personal overfeeding-related problems, I have given them nearly none of ...

Believe it or not there is a bunch of research available into the properties and uses of orange peel as well as other citrus fruit peels. I have not been able to find any that deals specifically with fish, but there is plenty of information on animal and human subjects. What I saw were two things ...

... reading what you said about plecos rasping algae and getting protein at the same time makes a lot of sense. As does plecos eating the occasional fruit or nut that falls into the river. If anyone has had a lot of success, I'd say you were someone I should aspire to emulate. I have not been active ...

... be well informed on this topic. I also know that fish eat a lot of things that we may not realize. In the wild many things fall into the water from fruits and nuts to insects and animals etc. It makes sense that some fish take advantage of this. I know that fish eat crustaceans and insects and larva ...

... them out and move them to a tank with other larger fish. Then, in the tank with the smaller fish left over, typically one or two will again race ahead in growth, and I'll repeat the process a few weeks later - almost like harvesting early fruit and leaving immature fruit to ripen.

Good luck!
Eric

... L397 are hungry buggers and some are darn-right mean. These guys (along with the Peckoltia compta ) are eating an entire (4-5 inch long) zucchini fruit (peeled) in less than 48 hours, not to mention about 1/3 of a medium-sized (5-6 inch long) sweet potato and a steamed clam on the half shell in the ...

... new tank)
are abot 8cm, in tank there some smaller ancistrus triradiatus and 3 slightly bigger squaliforma emarginata

i feed pleco tablet and vegetables or fruit and small amount of cichlid granules, try even piece of fish
everything are eaten but cant see directly doing so only the pseudancistrus

... ready to go straight into the tank, I went to Maidenhead Aquatics to get a load of wood, for the price it was though i did look at and consider the fruit trees for sale in the garden centre next door :)) . As collecting it drying it out preparing it woud be a bit of a long process. I do plan to go ...

2013 paths to buy, is now bearing fruit

... Mine is only 3inch so how often should i feed algae waffers and shrimp pellets etc each week. It seems algae waffers each night removing left over the next day. Then shrimp etc 2 times a week with an occasional treat of fruit or veg. Is that about right. Just want to make sure of a routine. Thanks.

Hi all,
Can fruit-trees be used maybe? Plum, apple, pear.... If so, I can use the roots from some cut down last year. I guess I might use oak as well, but oak isn't the easiest to get hold of.

The plan is to build a setup from wood, with carved/drilled out caves in it, where they can chew out and ...

Anyone who knows for sure what types of tree/wood from the nature I can use in the tanks....
Mainly to panaque and panaqolus..

Can fruit-trees be used maybe? Plum, apple, pear.... If so, I can use the roots from some cut down last year.
I guess I micht use oak as well, but oak isn't the easiest to ...

I don't know about that. A lot of fruit growers use astonishing amounts of insecticides. Don't think I'd want to but anything but organic apple peels in the tank