Hey Enid,
Your pleco has lived a long life! And its huge! I know mine won't get that big as it doesn't seem like it hasn't grown any the last 1.5 yrs. At least I hope not or I'll have to invest in a bigger tank and hubby won't like that. lol
Thanks for the recipe. I'll have to make that next time I'm out shopping and see what he thinks of it.
Tatts
From: Enid Rodriguez
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:46 PM
To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AquaticLife] plecostomus
Hey!
I have had a pleco for the last 13 years. S/he loves zucchini. Mine is huge, over a foot long. The tank is overloaded with plants it wont eat and 2 large pieces of driftwood; they DO enjoy nibbling on the wood. His tankmates, at present are guppies. Before that I had platties and swordtails. His tankmates are temporary fish; I get a few and care for them until they die out. If you have a common pleco he doesn't need a same species tankmate; they are territorial and don't exactly like sharing, plus you would need a very large tank to deal with the waste.
It's diet consists of vegetables (zucchini, yellow squash) and homemade gel food that is mostly veggies, but I do add wild caught shrimp (shells and all) from the frozen food section of the supermarket.
What I use for my gel food is kale, packaged frozen mixed veggies and shrimp and of course the knox unflavored gelatin. Other people cook the food, I thaw it and process it raw then dissolve the 4 gelatin packs in about 3
2 cups of boiling water , mix and mold.
You can find many gel food recipes on the web. That, in a nutshell is what I use.
Enjoy your pleco! They are long lived and interesting fish on their own.
Enid
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