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Feeding meaty foods to my pl*co
Posted: 25 Sep 2003, 01:18
by pmnovak1
I have a leopard pl*co and I'm told that he will like more meaty foods. I'm quite new to this and trying to figure out how to feed him these.
I bought some frozen shrimp and bloodworms but they all float. I have some bottom dweller pellets but he doesn't seem to like them.
How do you get frozen food down there for him to eat? Or am I missing something obvious.
Thanks,
Paul
Posted: 25 Sep 2003, 01:23
by BIGblue
It will eventually sink. You could also try putting the bloodworms/brine shrimp in your net, running it through some water, and then put it in your tank. It should sink right away.
Posted: 25 Sep 2003, 01:32
by Barbie
Most regular fish flakes, and pellets or crumbles are meat based, so you really don't need to go to the special effort of bloodworms and the like for him, unless its something you want to try 
Barbie
Posted: 25 Sep 2003, 01:34
by Silurus
The best (and easiest) way to direct frozen food to where you want is to use a dropper. Details of the method I use in
this post.
Posted: 25 Sep 2003, 09:14
by Plec0maniac
give your plec some time.. After he is very well conditioned it should eat anything.. My 10inches pseudas tend to devour anything even veggies
Posted: 25 Sep 2003, 09:42
by S. Allen
yeah, once you get them eating, they'll widen their horizons, I've got a baby juruense catfish that loves tetra's crisps and spirulina flakes, the latter more, for some reason.
Some plecos are so secretive you'll never see them unless it's feeding time, and even then it's rare. if you see him and he's got a good pudgy stomach I wouldn't worry much.
Posted: 29 Sep 2003, 00:44
by Loric
Try him with some prawns, not the most nutritional food but good to bulk up its diet- my plecos love them, and you can stop them floating by attaching them to a stone or bogwood with rubber bands.
