Ok well as I promised. This is what I do to anchor my plecos food. Simple and effective. I went and bout a pack of 4 stainless steel (well suppost to be) BBQ skewers. I broke two of them in half, so I had 4 long pieces.
Then the first thing I do is unthaw the seafood pieces in a bowl of hot water. Then while that's thawing I move onto cutting the veggies. I use broccoli, zucchini, and yams for the veggie portion. I've found these are their favorite, and the least messy. In my opinion. I cut them to this size first. These are going to be the portions.
Then I cut them down to smaller bits. For the broccoli, I remove the tops leaving only the stem. I do this, because the tops are messy as can be. Next I skin the yams, because I found that most of my plecos won't eat it.
Now it's time to take out the seafood bits. when I take them out I squeeze the bits in my hand to remove the most of the water inside. This is usually what clouds my tank a little. That's why I remove the juices. Now I cut down some of the larger pieces.
After that's done it's time to put them on the skwer. I like to alternate the meat and veggies.
Once the kabobs are done, I spread them out evenly across the tank.
Then I put in my dry foods. They consist of home brewed pellets (on left), Hbh flakes (center), wardley pleco disc, and hikiri carnivore pellets. These are the all exact portions I use.
Then about 45 seconds later the plecos come out of the woodworks. Just like I said, like a bunch of pigs hitting the feed troughs. The long spread out food allows them to all get in and eat. Their is occasional posturing, but never fights. The only plecos that I've had fight are my two big panques. Now their seperated. I still don't know for sure if the panques are males or females. I'm assuming their the same sex, and that's why they were fighting. Got to the point where one panque chewed the stripes right off the other. Both are healed and fine, except the one has a black patch where the stripes used to be. You can also see that even the rainbows like to hit the buffett. Very happy and healthy plecos.
Then the first thing I do is unthaw the seafood pieces in a bowl of hot water. Then while that's thawing I move onto cutting the veggies. I use broccoli, zucchini, and yams for the veggie portion. I've found these are their favorite, and the least messy. In my opinion. I cut them to this size first. These are going to be the portions.
Then I cut them down to smaller bits. For the broccoli, I remove the tops leaving only the stem. I do this, because the tops are messy as can be. Next I skin the yams, because I found that most of my plecos won't eat it.
Now it's time to take out the seafood bits. when I take them out I squeeze the bits in my hand to remove the most of the water inside. This is usually what clouds my tank a little. That's why I remove the juices. Now I cut down some of the larger pieces.
After that's done it's time to put them on the skwer. I like to alternate the meat and veggies.
Once the kabobs are done, I spread them out evenly across the tank.
Then I put in my dry foods. They consist of home brewed pellets (on left), Hbh flakes (center), wardley pleco disc, and hikiri carnivore pellets. These are the all exact portions I use.
Then about 45 seconds later the plecos come out of the woodworks. Just like I said, like a bunch of pigs hitting the feed troughs. The long spread out food allows them to all get in and eat. Their is occasional posturing, but never fights. The only plecos that I've had fight are my two big panques. Now their seperated. I still don't know for sure if the panques are males or females. I'm assuming their the same sex, and that's why they were fighting. Got to the point where one panque chewed the stripes right off the other. Both are healed and fine, except the one has a black patch where the stripes used to be. You can also see that even the rainbows like to hit the buffett. Very happy and healthy plecos.
