Do I Need To Feed My Bn Every Day?

[benjoey]

Hi so far I have been putting a piece of cucumber in my tank about 2/3 days, and occasionaly feeding algae wafers. Is this enough for my BN? I have never actually seen it eat the cucumber! I'm not sure what else to try feeding?

 

[hillbilly]

I feed my loach and BN "catfish sinkers", and both seem to like them. I rarely see the BN feeding as it is very shy and hides when I am in the room!

 

[fluttermoth]

Try it on some sinking catfish pellets; all fish seem to love them (even the ones that aren't catfish, lol!) You could try different vegetables too; there's not much goodness in a cucumber, seeing as it's like 98% water. Lightly cooked carrot, sweet potato (NOT normal potato) or fruits like mango usually go down well with plecs of all kinds

 

[fishnovice]

Try it on some sinking catfish pellets; all fish seem to love them (even the ones that aren't catfish, lol!) You could try different vegetables too; there's not much goodness in a cucumber, seeing as it's like 98% water. Lightly cooked carrot, sweet potato (NOT normal potato) or fruits like mango usually go down well with plecs of all kinds

my BN eat cucumber and courgette. They also nibble on prebolied carrot and normal potato. If they were not used to being fed veg by previous owner /LFS it may take them a while a while to realise tht veg is food! Give them time and they will eat it -my common plec took weeks of persusion before she ate veg and only because she saw her tankmates eating it first.