do blue phantom plecos and royal plecos have somewat the same food requirements?i currently feed my phantom spirluna wafers and flakes and very rarely(maybe once a month)one massivore pellet and zucchini. also both eat bogwood right?i was looking into maybe getting a small royal
feeding simularities between phantoms and royals
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L128 (blue phantom) is more omnivore while "Royal Pleco" are more vegetarian. If fed mostly vegetarian diet, both will do fine. L128 will do fine with the veggies for both also picking up after other fish. Consider using something more nutritious and taking longer time to break down than zucchini, like pumpkin and sweet potatos.
Driftwood is much more important to "royal pleco" than L128. If you do add a "royal pleco", keep your eyes on the filter material to see if there are wood shavings/dust on them. If not, change to a different type. Some "royal pleco" may consider monapi driftwood a little too hard.
Do keep in mind, pretty much all types of "royal pleco" will reach 18" easy, some will go well over 24"
Driftwood is much more important to "royal pleco" than L128. If you do add a "royal pleco", keep your eyes on the filter material to see if there are wood shavings/dust on them. If not, change to a different type. Some "royal pleco" may consider monapi driftwood a little too hard.
Do keep in mind, pretty much all types of "royal pleco" will reach 18" easy, some will go well over 24"
I agree with the above, and successfully keep L190 and L128 together, along with L14 much to the dismay of the purists! I feed mostly NLS Mega Fish Formula, substituted with Hikari wafers, pumpkin/kumara/zucchini, plus some of them come out and graze on the other NLS and flake food I feed my Geophagus.
They'll be fine together as mentioned just try to lean more towards the royals diet requirements to avoid issues.
I only feed mine NLS mega fish been a few years now and it's great. All my royals love it.
As for veggies it don't feed them mostly hard veggies like carrots, sweet and white/yellow potato, turnips and their favorites bell peppers and mushrooms
Mopani is said to be too hard by some but that's just bull. I have had mine in with Mopani for years and they are not toothless. In fact these fish grow teeth back.
For scobis like 14's who IME lose teeth like crazy you can collect them off the bottom of the tank they look like little hooks.
If stay away from hikari foods with plecos it's known to cause bloat or constipation especially when it comes to royals.
They're all the same when it comes to care but pickiest eaters IME are 418 and 203
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I only feed mine NLS mega fish been a few years now and it's great. All my royals love it.
As for veggies it don't feed them mostly hard veggies like carrots, sweet and white/yellow potato, turnips and their favorites bell peppers and mushrooms
Mopani is said to be too hard by some but that's just bull. I have had mine in with Mopani for years and they are not toothless. In fact these fish grow teeth back.
For scobis like 14's who IME lose teeth like crazy you can collect them off the bottom of the tank they look like little hooks.
If stay away from hikari foods with plecos it's known to cause bloat or constipation especially when it comes to royals.
They're all the same when it comes to care but pickiest eaters IME are 418 and 203
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I'm nearly out of the Hikari wafers Jackson, been thinking of trying these; http://www.kensfish.com/aquarium-supplies/fish-food-feeders/spectrum-h2o-stable-wafers.html
Have you used them or just the mega fish formula?
Have you used them or just the mega fish formula?
I have successfully kept green royal plecs in tanks with mopani, and standard bogwood. However I do keep the juvenile with the softer wood.
I am a big believer in feeding vegetables, mines eat - carrot, courgette, potato, butternut squash, seasonal squash, pumpkin, cucumber.
Nothing special, washed raw veg, cut a nice thick slice, stick it on a fork (as most veg floats) drop it in, remove the next morning
I am a big believer in feeding vegetables, mines eat - carrot, courgette, potato, butternut squash, seasonal squash, pumpkin, cucumber.
Nothing special, washed raw veg, cut a nice thick slice, stick it on a fork (as most veg floats) drop it in, remove the next morning
I didn't have a good response to those from the plecs.
They pretty much ignored it and didn't eat it at all.
When my hypostomus ignore foods I don't waste my time trying.
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In my first reply I meant to say I mostly feed them hard veggies.
I also meant to say I stay away from hikari foods I've had bad results using their foods.
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