I have tried blanched and non blanched zucchini, romaine and other things trying to expand his diet and he shows no interest in them, They aren't even touched the next day. What can I do about this to get him to start being more interested in these things?
Getting my pleco to eat his veggies
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Assuming it is a pleco that does eat veggies (not a carnivorous hyphan or pseuda, etc), you could try:
(1) rubbing cut garlic or applying garlic extract to the piece of vegetable. Garlic supposedly acts as an appetite stimulant.
(2) sticking some pellet food in to the veggy; the pleco will be attracted to the prepared food, and hopefully learn that the veggy is also food
(combining suggestsion 1&2, a type of food you may want to try is New Life Spectrum Thera A+ which contains garlic).
(1) rubbing cut garlic or applying garlic extract to the piece of vegetable. Garlic supposedly acts as an appetite stimulant.
(2) sticking some pellet food in to the veggy; the pleco will be attracted to the prepared food, and hopefully learn that the veggy is also food
(combining suggestsion 1&2, a type of food you may want to try is New Life Spectrum Thera A+ which contains garlic).
He's just a common pleco. The most he will do is just lay across the cucumbers and zucchini but I will defintely try sticking the pellets into the food and see if maybe he will start realizing then. I tried again with some fresh cucumber out of our garden. Fingers crossed he will realize tonight.
not mine but that is how is coloring is. maybe you guys can identify what kind he actually is instead of just a "common pleco"
May need a pic of yours as there are 3 kinds of common plecos
The picture you gave looks like two of them: Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus or a Pterygoplichthys pardalis. A belly shot can tell these two apart.
The picture you gave looks like two of them: Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus or a Pterygoplichthys pardalis. A belly shot can tell these two apart.
He's still pretty small but looks like a Pterygoplichthys pardalis as they have a circle/dotted like pattern on the belly
Yeah, he's about 5 inches long, he's growing like a weed though. He was about 3 inches when I got him a little over a month ago.