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duckweed and plecos
Plecos certainly love green stuff. Anyone know, from experience, whether
they'll eat duckweek? |
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duckweed and plecos
It never occurred to me to wonder but, now that you mention it, I have
duckweed in all my tanks except the two that have pl*cos in them. Usually, the duckweed and riccia grow all mixed up together but, in the high-light tank with the royal pl*co in it, there is only riccia. I'm not sure how to check since they never even move, let alone eat, if they think I might be looking at them. neilmn wrote in message te.net... Plecos certainly love green stuff. Anyone know, from experience, whether they'll eat duckweek? |
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:14:30 -0600, "neilmn"
wrote: Plecos certainly love green stuff. Anyone know, from experience, whether they'll eat duckweek? I doubt it, since their mouths point down, and duckweed is always up. Chuck Gadd http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua |
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duckweed and plecos
Yes, but float a cucumber slice on the water, and a pleco will be glad to
turn itself on its back so it can suck on the underside of the slice. "Chuck Gadd" wrote in message ... On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:14:30 -0600, "neilmn" wrote: Plecos certainly love green stuff. Anyone know, from experience, whether they'll eat duckweek? I doubt it, since their mouths point down, and duckweed is always up. Chuck Gadd http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua |
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duckweed and plecos
In article , Chuck Gadd
writes: From: Chuck Gadd Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:03:15 -0700 On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:14:30 -0600, "neilmn" wrote: Plecos certainly love green stuff. Anyone know, from experience, whether they'll eat duckweek? I doubt it, since their mouths point down, and duckweed is always up. Mine will catch food pellets floating on the surface with his mouth. It's quite a sight to see; he'll float suspended at an odd angle with his belly pointed up while he works on sucking the pellet. It's as if he doesn't realize the food is free floating and not stuck to a substrate like algae. Erica http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/mitoem/mitoem/index.htm |
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duckweed and plecos
Hehe chuck you underestimate the abilities of the pl*co
my sailfin would dangle from the roots of the water lettuce chewing his way up to the top of the plant. not much of leap to think he wouldn't eat the leaves if I didn't spook him. Chuck Gadd wrote in : On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:14:30 -0600, "neilmn" wrote: Plecos certainly love green stuff. Anyone know, from experience, whether they'll eat duckweek? I doubt it, since their mouths point down, and duckweed is always up. Chuck Gadd http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua |
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