How often ?

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akoh
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How often ?

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How often do you guys feed your's plecos and is there a specific time of the day ?
I feed mine on alternate days and usually at night, cheers ! :)

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Plec0maniac
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thats the proper thing to do :)
Too many gorgeous loricariids
So hard to obtain! Grrr....
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Post by Manix »

I do the same. They get really mad if I'm more than an hour late too...
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Re: How often ?

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akoh wrote:How often do you guys feed your's pl*cos and is there a specific time of the day ?
I feed mine on alternate days and usually at night, cheers ! :)

Safe Diving !
akoh
Same as you!!!! :twisted:
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Agreed. :D Hey we are in agrement!! What's up! :shock:







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Post by catdoc »

Is this for all plecos or just adults? I feed mine daily. Is that TOO much?? I do weekly water changes, nitrate/nitrite kept at/near zero.

edited to add that mine are all juveniles (<1 year)
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Post by Allivymar »

I have an 8 inch liposarcus in with a few angels and a couple of loaches. I *specifically* feed the lipo 3-4 times a week, usually Hikari algae wafers although I will alternate those with Hikari Tropical Sinking wafers. I throw in 3; two for the lipo, one for everyone else cause they think its for them ;)

The reason I don't feed him more, is he has gotten a real taste for the angel's food. I use Spectrum pellets (yep, they contain spirulina), and within 2 minutes of me feeding the angels he's hoovering up the bottom. Between the driftwood, the different foods and the wee bit of algae on the tank walls I don't think his mouth ever stops LOL
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Post by Kostas »

Hi,
I feed my liposarcus dailly one Tetra Plecomin tablet on my hand.I have trained him to eat from my hand from the size of one inch. :D I feed the rest of my plecos on alternate days half a tabtet, but at noon.
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Post by Plec0maniac »

hi u can feed your plec everyday.. but try to strve them for a day.. since in the wild they basically dnt eat everyday :)
Too many gorgeous loricariids
So hard to obtain! Grrr....
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