Regular Member d_golem Posted September 2, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 2, 2005 Just bought some algae wafer for my plecos yesterday. put one in, goldies went crazy and the plecos got almost no chance to nibble on it. "ok then, i'll just put the wafer in when the goldies are asleep", i thought. tonite i turned off the lights, waited for an hour, made sure the goldies were asleep (or looked like it), put the wafer in as far away as possible from the goldies, and in an instant my pearlscale darted for the wafer and soon all 5 goldies were on it like ravenous wolves how am i suppose to feed the plecos hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Fish_Fanatic Posted September 2, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 2, 2005 Well...when I had plecos, I got little pleco tablets by Nutrafin, and my goldies would sometimes pick at them , but not too often. The plecos seemed to really like them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Tazz Knight Posted September 2, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 2, 2005 wow, I have no idea...do you have any algea growing in your tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member d_golem Posted September 3, 2005 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 3, 2005 got some hair algae growing though. just noticed my black moor got a scale knocked off most likely from the feeding frenzy last nite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member LuvMuhFred Posted September 3, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 3, 2005 Maybe you can get a divider to use at feeding time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member d_golem Posted September 3, 2005 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 3, 2005 the divider wont do much good though. the plecos wont eat the whole wafer in one go. i think it's meant for them to nibble on it from time to time. hmm got a real dilemma here....goldies love pleco food more than the plecos do *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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