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Albino common Pleco eating wood?
Posted: 16 Jan 2009, 19:14
by metalface2
I just got a albino pleco, hes about 3 inches. Ive set him up with his own tank (20 gallon long) with an Ehiem pro 2 filter made for 92 gallon aqauriums. He just chills inside my huge driftwood caves and I think hes eating the wood cause his crap is the same color. Hes never on the glass or any where else, And he never goes for algea or spirulina disks so he must be eating in there right? Do commons do that? And I knew these guys crap alot but god damn...
Re: Albino common pl*co eating wood?
Posted: 16 Jan 2009, 19:52
by MatsP
It probably finds a bit of rotting wood, algae and other "goodness" on the wood.
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Mats
Re: Albino common pl*co eating wood?
Posted: 21 Jan 2009, 01:30
by hotsauce48
It could be normal because...
:scaping algae
igesting food
:stressed
r just likes to chew and squash
Re: Albino common pl*co eating wood?
Posted: 21 Jan 2009, 04:46
by Birger
I just got a albino pl*co, hes about 3 inches. Ive set him up with his own tank (20 gallon long) with an Ehiem pro 2 filter made for 92 gallon aqauriums. He just chills inside my huge driftwood caves and I think hes eating the wood cause his crap is the same color. Hes never on the glass or any where else, And he never goes for algea or spirulina disks so he must be eating in there right? Do commons do that? And I knew these guys crap alot but god damn...
If you just got it it will be shy for awhile.
Sounds like you have it housed in a nice space, keep offering a variety of different things a little at a time and eventually it will figure out the food source, it will get tired of the wood and soon you will be looking for that next larger tank when it puts on a growth spurt.
Birger