Thx everyone for the advice, will try to update with pics.
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Got my 1st pleco: L25 scarlet
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nice pleco ! 
this is the first time u have ever keep a pleco before and it is the most beautiful ive ever seen, especially those fins. it's the first time ive seen this before actually. btw, good luck with it. it helps clean ure tank though. 
this is the first time u have ever keep a pleco before and it is the most beautiful ive ever seen, especially those fins. it's the first time ive seen this before actually. btw, good luck with it. it helps clean ure tank though. 
There no way the l25 going to compete with geos, loaches, and prochilodus. Get your self a long thin PVC pipe and target feed. I got just one flagtail that I'm going to get rid of soon because of this reason.
nice pleco !
Plecos don't clean tanks, my friend
In fact they tend to create a lot of waste. And this particular pleco is more on the carnivorous side, so won't be eating much tank algae either. And to the OP, beautiful pleco! Granted my Pseuda is much larger, I have him in with a school of clown loaches and just recently got rid of a 10" flagtail. I do basically just as several have already said. I feed my whole tank and get the rest of the fish occupied. Then throw in pellets near the pleco's cave. I do all of this shortly before I shut the light off. It has worked for about two years now.Sent from my SCH-I535 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App
really? well they help clean mine. hahah.
a carnivorous pleco? how is tht? nver seen or heard a carnivorous one before. O.O
a carnivorous pleco? how is tht? nver seen or heard a carnivorous one before. O.O
I appreciate all the advice. Well, the 4" Scarlet selected his "home" within the driftwood, monitored it for a week to ensure it was eating as I dropped massivore pellets nxt to him. I dimmed the lights as well, but I never could never confirm it ate. So, I separated it into a 6.5" wide x 12" tall "breeder container" inside the tank. It's been about 1 week now, and eats 2-3 whole massivore pellets each night. I'll keep him there til it's nice, fat, and comfortable. Then I'll let it loose again in the 170g.
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Try rubbing cut garlic, using garlic extract on the massivore pellet, or feed with Thera A+ (with garlic); the garlic is an appetite stimulant, and the pleco may try eating it.
Pseudacanthicus plecos, like 888fish's L25 scarlet, L24, l114, L600, pretty much most pseudacanthicus are carnivorous. Zebra plecos are primarily carnivorous as well. L14 goldies are mostly meat eaters, L18 golden nuggets may appear to chew on veggies, but it's just grazing on a thin film of organic matter on top of them.
It's very simple, other than panaques and few others, put a few pieces of lettuces and a few pieces of cut shrimp, which do you think most plecos will go after?
There's even a simpler but very expensive test.. buy a L25 and only feed veggies, remember, don't scrap off algae so it can have another source of food. After a few weeks, you'll end up with a dead L25 in a very dirty, algae filled tank!
but i usually just put floating pellets in my tank as it will go to the top of the tank and feed . yup, it does eats the algae in my tank.
my pleco is just like this. (picture from google) kept an albino pleco once but it didnt make it to adulthood.
yup, it does eats the algae in my tank. my pleco is just like this. (picture from google) kept an albino pleco once but it didnt make it to adulthood.
