Help with feeding royal pleco

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Jack Dempsey
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HI, I picked up a royal pleco a few days ago and he is cool. Im pretty sure he's a L-190. I went into a fish store and the guy told me to feed him zuccini and romanian lettuce. This morning, I cut off some zuccini and stuck it under the rocks, 3/4 of it is above the rocks. Now, how thin should it be. Im trying to get him to eat but all he's eating is the small amount of algae in my tank and I mean small amount. Plus, I want him to get big :)
 
My royals tore up quite a bit of driftwood. They derive nutrients from the simple sugars generated by bacteria flourishing in the surfaces of driftwood. My titanic panaque could go through several pounds of driftwood a week.
Mine receive frozen peas, corn, beans, bloodworms, mysis shrimp, sinking sticks, meat wafers with spirulina, coconut husk, kiwi, zucchini, massivore, and pumpkin.
 
Mine eats driftwood zuchinni and whatever prepared foods he can get.Not shy about competing with other fish for food.Yours may just need some time to settle in.
 
He needs to start eating soon, this morning I went to go look at him and I thought he was dead. He is very light in color on his tail and turned a light green on his head. I threw a piece in of romana lettuce, and still have the zuccini in there. I left an algae wafer in overnight, he didnt touch it. Idk what to do, in my experience, they eat the wafers.
 
The most important thing for a new fish is to get it feeding as soon as possible. So try any food you have, don't worry about the right sort of food at the beginning, just try to get it eating. I always over feed new fish to make sure they can find food and get familiar with new your new foods. Try and find out what it was eating before you got it.

I wouldn't bother with lettuce. Try other vegetables like carrot, sweet potato, swede, broccoli. Mine always like melon rind as well. Also try some meaty foods like prawn/shrimp and bloodworm etc.

Remember to keep up tank and water maintenance to help keep the tank and fish healthy.
 
hope it starts eating! matubula and oddball are both info factories..
mine are on sinking cichlid gold, algae tabs and wood.

for whatever reason there be, ive not bothered to get them on zucchini yet..grr.

when theyre small, they can be difficult. my very first one refused to eat and died. had some kind of internal infection i assumed.
 
Alright. Yeah, the romain lettuce didnt work. I also bought omega one veggie rounds today, threw in some and nothing. So im going to throw in like 6 tonight and leave them in overnight. What i did this morning, is that I put the light on the hood, so now its on and hopefully have some algae for him to eat seeing as he likes to stick on the glass and not so much on the ground.
 
Alright, i'll keep the light off at night. I found out its a L-191. I tried the omega one veggie disks. He didnt touch them. When I looked at him, he was a light green so I put him in a bag and went back to my store to exchange him. Maybe I just got a bad one, Idk. BUt i've tried different things with him and had no luck, I didnt want him to die in my tank. And the other fish arent bullying him or anything so I dont know what the problem was. Hopefully, the new one will turn out better. The water is at 81 degrees.
 
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