Clown pleco protein problems...

[catfishchaos]

Hello everybody!

I am running into a some trouble in 55 gallon tank where my P.compta and P.maccuss live happily. The problem is that the P.compta prefer meaty foods (mine get hikari carnivore pellets, fluval sinking pellets, and lots of meaty frozed foods and nibble on the P.maccuss algae disc every know and then. However my P.maccus seem to be taking a shine to the meaty foods which I ignored at first but know it seems after every P.compta feeding the little clowns are very bloated! I see them eat all the meaty food with gusto and they do eat the kikari algae wafers i put in but I'm just curoius if theres anything i can do to prevent my plecos from turning into balloons? is this bad for the P.maccus?

All bloating sees to disappear after a day or two.

Regards
James

[Coldhands]

Placing the P. Maccus in a separate tank seems ideal.