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L-200 Pleco ravaging my swords
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My L-200 "Green Phantom" Pleco is doing serious and unsightly damage to virtually all my sword varieties except the Amazon (naturally the most common one). I've tried fresh zucchini which worked for Plecos in the past but he's totally uninterested. Does anyone have more suggestions, besides getting rid of him? We really like the fish but we love the plants. Robert -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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L-200 Pleco ravaging my swords
"Robert" wrote in message ... Group: My L-200 "Green Phantom" Pleco is doing serious and unsightly damage to virtually all my sword varieties except the Amazon (naturally the most common one). I've tried fresh zucchini which worked for Plecos in the past but he's totally uninterested. Does anyone have more suggestions, besides getting rid of him? We really like the fish but we love the plants. Robert It's trade in time. If he likes swords there isn't much else you can do except buy the pleco it's own tank. It's like my trying to get my wife's cat to stop bringing mice and crayfish into the living room. At least the mice are dead and returning the crayfish to the creek is a short walk. I traded my destructive pleco for some stripped rubber noses. My plants are appreciative:-) Bob |
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L-200 Pleco ravaging my swords
It's trade in time. If he likes swords there isn't much else you can do
except buy the pleco it's own tank. It's like my trying to get my wife's cat to stop bringing mice and crayfish into the living room. At least the mice are dead and returning the crayfish to the creek is a short walk. I traded my destructive pleco for some stripped rubber noses. My plants are appreciative:-) Bob Bob, I have a special passion for the great varieties of Plecos available now and don't want to get rid of him. I'll give him a different tank with some Cory breeders but it won't be planted. Anyone have suggestions if he won't eat zucchini? Bob -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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L-200 Pleco ravaging my swords
"Robert" wrote in
: I have a special passion for the great varieties of Plecos available now and don't want to get rid of him. I'll give him a different tank with some Cory breeders but it won't be planted. Anyone have suggestions if he won't eat zucchini? Prune your swords a lot? ~Empty -- 'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.' Spike |
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L-200 Pleco ravaging my swords
Bob, I have a special passion for the great varieties of Plecos available now and don't want to get rid of him. I'll give him a different tank with some Cory breeders but it won't be planted. Anyone have suggestions if he won't eat zucchini? Bob I understand that, broke my heart to trade George in. Someday I'll have a tank I can keep a 12+ inch monster in. Till then I'll go with my rubber noses and some of the other small versions. As for food, years ago I grew one (a George too) to over 12 inches in a 55 stocked with duckweed, elodea and hornwort. Algae was always trying to grow but couldn't keep up with him. He'd vacuum up any left over flake...plowed the tank from one end to the other every night. He refused all "treats" like zucchini. Recently I had one growing an inch a month on Nutrafin sinking complete food tablets and algae tabs. He was also fond of shrimp pellets and my swords. Some plecos chew on wood and most are omnivores to be health they need more than zucchini and algae wafers. When they are hungry, they will eat anything even dead fish. Bob |
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L-200 Pleco ravaging my swords
"Robert Flory" wrote in message gy.com... I understand that, broke my heart to trade George in. Someday I'll have a tank I can keep a 12+ inch monster in. Till then I'll go with my rubber noses and some of the other small versions. As for food, years ago I grew one (a George too) to over 12 inches in a 55 stocked with duckweed, elodea and hornwort. Algae was always trying to grow but couldn't keep up with him. He'd vacuum up any left over flake...plowed the tank from one end to the other every night. He refused all "treats" like zucchini. Recently I had one growing an inch a month on Nutrafin sinking complete food tablets and algae tabs. He was also fond of shrimp pellets and my swords. Some plecos chew on wood and most are omnivores to be health they need more than zucchini and algae wafers. When they are hungry, they will eat anything even dead fish. Bob I'm ashamed to say that I haven't thought this through very well, the key word being "omnivore". I'll try some Shrimpellets at lights out and bring some algae wafers from the office and try to temp him with those as well. BTW, I bought a 20 today, just in case... (Buck a gallon sale at the almost Local FS--such a deal). Negotiations are under way right now as to the location of the new tank. So far she ain't buyin' the "you could make it your tank and I'll just offer advice when asked" routine. Bob -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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