Royal

[thefredpit]

he is doing great he hid for the 1st couple hours but afterwards he has been up front 90% of the time I love him. I named him king ralph

 

[Alexxxxsv14]

Managed a pic of this guy eating bloodworms today

 

[exodus1500]

Royals may take some time to settle in, but get pretty bold once they do. One of my L191s wouldn't come out of his corner for months and I had to target feed him. Now that he has put on some size he bulldozes all the others out of the way at feeding time.

I agree. I have a small, 3" one that I can only ever see its face once in a while, a 9" one who has a movement area of about a foot from what I can tell, and an 11" one that is crazy and as soon as any kind of food hits the water he is out bulldozing his way around. Not a very graceful species compared to my L095, or Rhino... or well, any other aquatic creature I have seen. hahaha

 

[BIG-G]

Im glad to here these guys will settle in. Mine is still very shy but I did find a food he loves. Repashy Morning wood. If you have a panaque you may want to give it a try. Took my guy a few times to find out where I feed but now he eats every bit of it.

 

[monkeybike]

Mine has recently taken to green beans and samples the shrimp/fish I put in for my Pseudacanthicus plecos. Lately they've all been enjoying watermelon rind as well. With 9 plecos in the tank I go thru a zucchini daily.

 

[Alexxxxsv14]

My royal shares a tank with a snowball and and a green phantom and they all love the driftwood but I feed cucumber zucchini blood worms and algae wafers they love it my phantom is the only one to really suck on algae on glass

 

[Dis]

Be careful with the blood worms. They can cause bloat.

Stick to the veggies and sinking pellets. Nice looking fish

 

[FishKing5]

This guy came out and got some nice pics

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Haha I really don't know what it is but everytime I get a new fish I come across posts that you have of the same fish haha. So weird. I just recently picked up a royal pleco.

 

[FishKing5]

I just got a Royal L191 and Green phantom L200. The Green phantom eats everything but the royal doesn't seem to be eating. What do you feed? if I may ask.
I have a few different pieces of drift wood in the tank and I have tried zucchini. and yellow squash. Potatoes and apples along with pleco waffers and shrimp pellets. Plus everything I feed the other fish.
Im starting to get concerned. Its been a week and I have yet to see him eat anything but maybe some algae on the back glass. I can see his tracks in the glass.

Royals eat wood and all the extra crud that builds up on wood. Thats basically their main diet

 

[Alexxxxsv14]

Be careful with the blood worms. They can cause bloat.

Stick to the veggies and sinking pellets. Nice looking fish

Yah bro I just feed my other fish the blood worms but sometimes I see it go down for the left overs I doubt he's consuming a lot of them