wyld fya since you have given me lots of useful and knowledgable help and hints in the past im going to as you a simple question...do h. plecostomos grow pretty slow...my chocolate has only grown about an inch in 2months...and how big do albino sail fins get...thanks for any answers wyldfya and others...
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H. plecostomus can be a slow grower, or a lightning fast grower. I've had chocolates grow at around 1" per 6 months, and I've had them gain 1" per month. Albino sailfins, assuming for and L083 g. gibbiceps albino, expect around 18".
cool...is there anything i can feed these guys to help grow and keep healthy...as you can tell im starting to really get into plecos more then the cichlids i keep...i feed them zucchini,broccoli,algae waffers, and left over cichlid food that sinks to the gravel...
mine loved shrimp and mussel, which has a high protein lvl so makes them grow faster. Must be careful not to feed them too much protein when young tho. The bigger they get, the more they can handle.
Feed an algae/veggie disk that is high in protein. HBH veggie wafers are great as they lead out the ingredients with spirulina. Make sure to give a wide variety still.
David is correct. Oft marketed spirulina discs are often as high, if not higher, in crude protein than even carnivore flakes (more ash in the latter). The addition of spirulina is minimal. People, however, tend to underestimate the amount of food necessitated by limnivores such as hypostomus (h. plecostomus is exceedingly rare these days, as imports have shied away from the surinam area), which forage almost 24 hours of the day, rasping away at decaying vegetation and biofilm. Thus, for optimal growing speeds, feeding at least twice day with vegetable flakes/ spectrum vegetable pellets (whatever is suitble for tropheus, for example), with teh inclusion of vegetable shrimp mixes, frozen/live foods and carnivore pellets will boost that suck er to at least 8"by the end of a year's worth of administration.