And i need suggetsions on food they are gonna eat-especially veg-SO, if u know what veg plecs like and how to feed it to them, pls reply and tell me!Any help would be amazing.
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Maybe it was lost in the translation, but none of my fish like to eat the skin of the potato. I remove the skin before adding the raw sweet potato (usually as 3-4mm thick slices) to my tank.shrimpkeeper222 wrote:Sweet Potato Skin(Raw)
Yes, try out a variety of fresh veggies. But if you want to be purposeful about it, I would treat the fish like human parents treat newborn babies: Introduce only one vegetable at a time and see if they get used to it. As mentioned above, I would keep feeding them the same vegetable for at least several days because they may not "like it" the first time they see it or taste it. My plecos have sometimes needed a week or more of exposure to a vegetable to decide that they like it, and once they like it, they really LIKE it!shrimpkeeper222 wrote:So maybe I should try out different foods?
Well, I don't know what they CANNOT eat, but I can tell you what they SHOULD NOT eat, and that is TOO MUCH of high-protein meaty foods. It's not that meats (e.g., shrimp or "carnivore" pellets) are bad automatically; in fact many plecos need some meaty foods when they are conditioning to be ready to breed (the extra protein helps mothers during egg production). But if the plecos are always fed a diet of high-protein foods like these, some plecos will overeat these foods and become swollen or bloated, and may actually die from this diet which is too rich compared to their normal vegetarian diet.shrimpkeeper222 wrote:So, does anyone know what Plecs CANNOT eat?
I've been thinking on this, and came to the conclusion that fish probably can't taste spice. Bare with me on this one.bekateen wrote:I've used raw sweet potato, raw celery, raw bell pepper (but remove the seeds first, they are probably TOO SPICY),
So, no fish with fiery flavors? interesting-will pursue that further. But, as bekateen said-better safe than spicy-or non-spicy!SuperSic wrote:I've been thinking on this, and came to the conclusion that fish probably can't taste spice. Bare with me on this one.bekateen wrote:I've used raw sweet potato, raw celery, raw bell pepper (but remove the seeds first, they are probably TOO SPICY),
Peppers and Chilli's are relatively recent additions to the flora of this planet (within the last 10,000 years we believe), because of this, animals such as parrots who have existed for longer than the plant never developed the taste buds that pick up the spicyness, which is why you find tasty chilli's in parrot food.
Well Plec's have been around for an estimated 300,000 years or longer, meaning that there is very little probability that they can even taste anything spicy.
(not that this means they'll like/eat the seeds of course, just pondering)