
Just had a concern. I have three plecos. A leopard sailfin, a clown, and a gold nugget. Until about 5 days ago I had the gold nugget and sailfin in my 55 gallon cichlid tank. The gold nugget is fine, nice plump belly, and as active as can be. (For a gold nugget that is). The clown is in my 20 gallon tropical community tank, also fat and happy. The sailfin, I thought, was just getting beaten up by the cichlids. Fins frayed and rather skinny. So I moved him into the 20 gallon for him to recuperate. But after 5 days, his fins are still frayed and he is still rather skinny, also seems to be getting slowly worse in his condition.
My question is, should I over feed the crap out of the 20 gallon tank to get him back up to his fighting weight? Or what should I do? He's like 7-8 months old and still only no more than 3.5 inches long (which seems small for him). It seems odd that the gold nugget isn't struggling at all but the sailfin seems on his last leg. HALP.
Thank you for your help.
-Brad