Bought a fantastic looking Gold Nugget plec, he is a bit quiet at the mo and seems very timid is this normal? He has had a suck on a potato slice (didnt seem too keen nor did the other plecs). Whats the best thing to feed him with????
Thanks all
Peace.
Gold Nugget Whats best to feed him? Please.
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Dave Rinaldo
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From the Cat-eLog
Feeding ____________ These fish are grazers, but not in the sense that they eat only vegetation. They actually sift and chew at the film of organic matter on hard surfaces in search of higher protein foods. In the wild this would constitute a variety of foods from small insect larvae and crustaceans to other animals eggs and possibly even recently dead animals. With this in mind, frozen foods such as bloodworm and blackworm should be offered along with frozen prawns. Algae and plants are avoided, but cucumber and courgette appear on the accepted menu. Accepted food morsel size changes with age in all of these fish.
Feeding ____________ These fish are grazers, but not in the sense that they eat only vegetation. They actually sift and chew at the film of organic matter on hard surfaces in search of higher protein foods. In the wild this would constitute a variety of foods from small insect larvae and crustaceans to other animals eggs and possibly even recently dead animals. With this in mind, frozen foods such as bloodworm and blackworm should be offered along with frozen prawns. Algae and plants are avoided, but cucumber and courgette appear on the accepted menu. Accepted food morsel size changes with age in all of these fish.
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I'm not going to say that I know better than the author of the Cat-eLog page [because I don't], but I believe that these fish should be fed more on a vegetarian diet than the Cat-eLog suggests, with a small addition of protein-rich foods such as blood-worms etc mentioned in the Cat-eLog.
I'm sure I saw a post where someone referred to Ingo Seidel and a picture of the intestine of a Gold Nugget, which was definitely very long. Long intestine suggests more vegetarian diet.
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Mats
I'm sure I saw a post where someone referred to Ingo Seidel and a picture of the intestine of a Gold Nugget, which was definitely very long. Long intestine suggests more vegetarian diet.
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Mats