Feeding whole fish

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dparks87

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Hey all,

I keep my pleco with cichlids and I have a hard time assuring that they are getting some of the meatier items I try to feed. I was reading the most recent issue of Amazonas and I noticed that the author in the preview article was feeding his green phantoms whole fish. I wanted to know if anyone here feeds fish this way? If not what are other good protein rich sources that would last overnight and allow the pleco a good opportunity to feed in a tank with aggressive feeding species.
 
My plecos mostly ignore a dead fish in their tank. This includes many large L234, L155, L25, etc. in my 580G. I wish they would eat it so I wouldn't have to dig it out. Perhaps with training they would eat whole fish. I just must not have enough random deaths to train them.
 
If your set on getting him more protein, give him his own space like this:

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This worked out to be the plecos favorite spot. Even the new plecos I have hide in there. It's a flat-bottomed sandstone propped up on one side with other stones. You just have to make sure the cave is big enough for the entire pleco, or two, to fit. <br />
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They won't stay in there all the time; mine usually free roam for most of the night, and sometimes cruise around during the day. But this large safety zone will serve as a retreat when the piranha get crazy.
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You can get some carnivorous pellets to slide in there and he'll be the only one able to get to them. But he may also ignore them and go on his normal regimen of looking for... Whatever his current diet is.

The bottom line is, if you want to train him on his own specific diet, he needs to have someplace that is inaccessible to everyone else.


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Worms are not an option as they are eaten by my cichlids in no time at all. The same can be said about market prawns, krill, plankton. I have also tried dehydrated products like Repashy but the cichlids also devour this. I am looking for a fish that I can purchase frozen and thaw out or something along those lines and sink and feed to my pleco.
 
I tried it with my L114's and L240's with cut up anchovy fish at night. Just spoiled the water too fast for me. They seem to eat it best the night of a WC. I was having to do WC's everyother day. Didn't really try other types of wholefish other than the anchovies. Others types might have different results. High protien pellets and mysis shrimp works gd for me during night hours
 
dparks87 said:
Worms are not an option as they are eaten by my cichlids in no time at all. The same can be said about market prawns, krill, plankton. I have also tried dehydrated products like Repashy but the cichlids also devour this. I am looking for a fish that I can purchase frozen and thaw out or something along those lines and sink and feed to my pleco.
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I mentioned fish that you can feed it in my post above. All of it was bought frozen and cut up when I fed them. those are the ones I found to be the cheapest and easiest to find in the grocery stores.




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Thanks Jackson. I suppose any time that I feed talapia and such I always cut it up but I could just as easily put a large portion of it in the tank that the cichlids could not just gulp down.
 
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