mixing diets

[Charney]

So I am soon going to combine my L14s and L200s -barys, gold nugget, mango, vampire pleco, and maybe chubby plecos into my 125g. Half of these guys are meat eaters and the other half are not. If I provide a mixture of both with each feeding do I have to worry about the baryancistrus getting too much protein? Do I have to worry about them bloating?

 

[Linus_Cello]

Yes, I would worry about bloating with too much protein. Herbivorous plecos will relish meaty foods when offered, and if they eat too much can suffer from bloat (L134 make excellent fish with discus, but if they eat too much beef heart, will die from bloat). But it may be ok to feed more vegetables (and general wafers/pellets) to the meat eaters; not sure if anyone can speak to that.

 

[strollo22]

If you were to use one pellet for all of them such as the New life spectrum h20 stable wafers. They contain both meats and plant matter but none in too high of a content to have a negative reaction towards carnivores or herbivores.

 

[David R]

I'd suggest going with the NLS as well, I'm feeding mainly the Mega Fish formula to my mix (Baryancistrus, Scobinancistrus, Hemiancistrus, Panaque) along with hikari wafers (switching to NLS as soon as I've used them up!), and offer veges 1-2 times weekly.

 

[Charney]

so I contacted NLS they no longer make the mega formula. Think I will pick up the jumbo and h2o stable. The jumbo pellets are only 4.5 mm, which really doesn't seem to jumbo. Think those are too small for my group of 8 to 11 inch L14s?