Feeding advice for my new fish

[jac]

Hello,

Finaly I have my precious pleco's at home
They are L134, L66 and L333. They are all breeding groups and are lent to me to learn about breeding these beautiful fish.
I have only got experience with corydoras and have much to learn about keeping pleco's.

For now my biggest question is how to feed them correctly. I read they are all carnivors, except maybe the L134, he will eat greens as well. I would like to give them home made food but I can't find any recepies. Could some one tell me how to prepare my own food or tell me were I can find recepies? Please

And I would like to know what is the best dried pellets to give them. I now have OSI shrimp pellets wich I use for my cory's. Is this also good for my pleco's?

Thanks!
Jacqueline

[MatsP]

Yes, L134 is more of an omnivore than the Hypancistrus species, which are carnivores in the main.

Have a look at my article (link on the right of this post) on feeding for ideas.

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Mats

[Richard B]

Whatever you decide - try & offer a variety of foods.

Mike_Noren has an excellent home made suggestion which is ideal for L Numbers- i'll see if i can find the link - or you could PM him

[Richard B]

http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/Proteinbomb_en.htm

here it is

[hotsauce48]

That was a cool recipe Richrd B, But do you think there is any thing else out there? What did you search to find it? I have 6 cories, and a bristlenose,willl that recipe work with my fish? I'm trying to get my cories to breed again,do you recomend the recipe?

[Richard B]

You can vary Mike's recipe to suit your own design - i have used powdered earthworm flakes, powdered crab & krill pellets & defrosted frozen peas in the egg mix for my synos. You can add whatever you want to suit your fishes requirements. Mike posted this in another thread somewhere - i think it was called "floating mushrooms". Loads of people have their own special home-made recipes but standard perpared products are also fine.

If you are trying to condition corys for breeding - i'd up the protein content of their diet - bloodworms, tetradelica, finely shredded earthworms, frozen live foods etc

[jac]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for all your reply's
Richard and Mats, I have read the articles. They have been a great help I've got lots of ideas and will make my own food.

I have fed them frozen chopped mussles last night and they loved it. It was all gone this morning

Greets Jacqueline