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[Jules]

So I scored a nice sailfin pleco on the weekend between 17-20cm.

And the thing craps heaps! and I mean heaps, more then stingrays. Now is it because it has eaten all the algae from the back of my tank or do they just make a lot of mess in general?

Never really kept them before (past the 10cm mark) so not much experience with them.

[DavidK]

From my experience, they just crap heaps lol
Mine was just a pooing machine

[Androo]

Big long ropes all over the tank floor.

[werdna]

Yup, they crap ALOT.

 

Mine managed to get one poo string from one end of my 8ft all the way to the other. Its quite impressive really.

If you have a background they hang it up like tinsel on all the outcrops.

[Jules]

dirty fish......

theres a fair bit of tank flow with the 2 cannisters but my otto 2000 just has brown spaghetti looking turds all over it.

[Westie]

I found that the big gold spot plecos are worse, but I had a sailfin that poo pooed everywhere. I first thought it was cool, but got really sick of vacuuming it all the time

Edited by Jason82, 31 July 2013 - 03:25 PM.

[scottyhooton]

Yup, they crap ALOT.
 
Mine managed to get one poo string from one end of my 8ft all the way to the other. Its quite impressive really.
If you have a background they hang it up like tinsel on all the outcrops.

Can vouch for this , the bloody thing is a rope spinning monster , it's currently on tropical vacation in my tank ( his winter home ) and I have seen turds I can hardly believe , it's seem to amuse itself by hanging as many and as long a turds as possible all over the 3d background or weaving a tapestry through the driftwood

[bigjohnnofish]

in proportion to their size they poop just as much as bristlenose... bigger mouth = more food = more poop = more cleanup = more water changes

[Jules]

none the less cool fish, and semms to have encouraged my little lima shovel nose out of his cave more.

now what is a good food to compensate when theres no algae for the plec, algae wafers, zucchini?

[DavidK]

I feed mine zucchini, cucumber, wafers, sweet potato etc

[werdna]

My one that Scotty has the privilege of housing will go through a whole zucchini in about 2 days.

Also try blanched lettuce leaves.

 

However they will eat everything, so any food on the tank bottom will get scoffed

[Mattymak]

They like a bit of driftwood to snack on here and there haha

[Westie]

HBH algae grazer discs are awesome

[becc2012]

I feed mine zucchini, cucumber, wafers, sweet potato etc

hiw much cucumber and do u have to cook it? Cheers

[Androo]

Don't have to cook the cucumber or zucchini if you weigh it down so it dosnt float. I do around 1cm slices and my bn fry finish a few slices in around 36 hours. Gibbys and bigger bn iv found that depending on number it is gone in an hour

[AXIS]

I find cucumber clouds the water slightly myself as it gets chomped, I find zucchini doesn't do that as much.

 

I just slice them in half, and stick a fork in them to weight it down and my bristlenose get stuck right into it.

Edited by AXIS, 28 August 2013 - 05:22 PM.