best foods for royal?

[cudamaster13]

i just bought a baby royal pleco and was wondering wat are the best foods i can feed him ?

 

[#1StuNNA]

these guys eat everything, so no need to worry. But make sure you have driftwood inside the tank, because that's their main diet. I have a variety of plecos in my tank, that includes royal also. I feed them hikari algae wafers, flake food, tetra bits, cucumber, lettuce, squash, etc...

 

[plecoking2010]

Lots of wood and sweet potatoes and cucumbers

 

[ElectricBlueSeanBurch]

Keep the protien down to a minimum. It will drasticly shorten his lifespan

 

[cudamaster13]

does it have to be organic cucumber with the skin on it or can i feed him any cucumber?

 

[Jer]

Mine love drift wood and zucchini which I think has more nutritional content than cucumber.

 

[plecoking2010]

They love the hole cucumber but I take the skin off of the sweet potatoe

 

[matubula]

You should provide lots of wood, preferably soft and aged, so that it has lots to rasp on and for algae and biofilm to grow on. Then feed a variety of fresh vegetables like carrot, broccoli, sweet potato, courgette (do not rely solely on cucumber) and experiment with lots of others. Also algae based wafers/pellets and other dried foods but keep animal based proteins to a minimum.

 

[cudamaster13]

i forgot to mention i have a small amazon swordplant in the tank will he eat that too?

 

[ElectricBlueSeanBurch]

mine never touched my live plants