feeding and l number help

[andy75]

hi all, im new to the site and could do with your help with my plecos.
been keeping plecos now for about 4 or 5 years and grown to love them, at first it was just about keeping fish but eveytime i go to the fish shop i was only really interested in the plecos.

anyway i have been having a few teething problems with idying my plecs with the l numbers so help is needed, i have ided a few against the cat-elog and would love to know if there was anything else i could feed them, except wafers,prawns and a few peas.
i have an lo18,lo66 and thats all i can id.
any help with l numbers with the names i know would be great.
honeycomb plec?
chocolate zebra?
joseline?
im going to upload a few pics soon for plecs i dont know the names for, cheers for help

[Richard B]

choc zebra is

Hypancistrus sp(l270)

joseline might be

Pterygoplichthys joselimaianus

honeycomb ???

Hypostomus faveolus

???Not sure - pics will always help us

if you go to the species page in cat-e-log it will give plenty of food advice

[andy75]

excellent cheers for your help, any ideas on anything different i could feed them?

and will be uploading pics of the honeycomb as hes always out and about.

[Richard B]

L18 - "These fish are grazers, but not in the sense that they eat only vegetation. They actually sift and chew at the film of organic matter on hard surfaces in search of higher protein foods. In the wild this would constitute a variety of foods from small insect larvae and crustaceans to other animals eggs and possibly even recently dead animals. With this in mind, frozen foods such as bloodworm and blackworm should be offered along with frozen prawns. Algae and plants are avoided, but cucumber and courgette appear on the accepted menu. Accepted food morsel size changes with age in all of these fish"

L66 - Carnivore - feed with bloodworms, mussel, sinking prepared food (such as Tetra bits), carnivore wafers, shrimp pellets and so on.

If you mix a quantity of L numbers you need to be careful that the right diet is offered & that the right individuals eat the right stuff - the above 2 are ok but some others have more specialist requirements

[andy75]

cheers taken on board, i do feed bloodworm but all the other fish eat it before it can even get to the bottom, ive also tried live bloodworm but again the same happens, any ideas how i can get bloodworm to my lo66? cheers for your help much apreciated

[five]

For what I'll do is to get a PVC pipe with internal diameter enough for a cube of the frozen bloodworm to slip through.

I place this PVC pipe, with length enough to reach to bottom of the tank. Then I just slip the frozen bloodworm into the PVC pipes. The worms will sink to the bottom when it defrost, without other fishes disturbing it.

Of course, unless your other fishes will go to the bottom to snatch the worms, then you have a new teething issue...

[andy75]

that sounds like a good idea five, cheers