How Do You View Your Nocturnal Fish?

[Super Dude]

I would like to see my pitbull plecos doing their thing more often. Unfortunately, this only happens in the dark, which is to my disadvantage. (lol) Even the room lights scare them away from their algae wafers.

Any cheap ideas on how to see them without scaring them? I was thinking maybe a dimmer switch on the room light. They leave from my cell phone screen 5' away from the tank!

 

[helterskelter]

put some courgette in and they will come out, most will even come out in full light to eat that stuff

 

[Spishkey]

try getting some blue led 'moonlights'?

 

[england]

I find setting up a tank accordingly works for me, ok in my 5 foot tank the 13+inch gibbicep has nowhere really to hide but one spot where you think oh hes left the tank.....

In my other tank since ive added the floating plant they will come out now for alot of the day, basically the duckweed has covered the surface which makes it dull lighting which the fish seem much happier about

however they are noctural fish which means your not really going to see much action until evening time

 

[Super Dude]

i do the zucchini (cougrette in britain, right?) think once in a while, as a treat (for me & the fish LOL). i'd like to see them more when they're eating their staple wafers.

i sleep in the same room, so the leds are kinda impractical.

 

[saltynay]

I have caves made from clear shot glasses stuck to the side and front glass so that you can see in, then covered with substrate so that they remain dark and cavernous. My khulis and ADFs love them even more then the darkest spot behind the filter seemingly. Think I have some pics somewhere although I am not in the UK so can't take new ones of the tank.

 

[MiB1986]

however crazy this is going to sound,

convert them, change night into day and day into night.

I personally work, so i dont see them during the day, so thats their nighttime and when i get home it becomes day time to them, to do this simply slowly move the way you light their tank. ie lights on and off one hour later per day and eventurally your of moved enough to of swapped them round, if you go too fast they will relise and all will be wasted. just be patient and eventurally they will come out when its our day time.

hope this helps any more questions please ask.

PS:
Worked on my plecos. and i have adonis, candy, BN, commons etc.. lol too many

 

[Super Dude]

the only problem is that i sleep in the same room, and the light would really bother me.

 

[JMatthew]

That's funny how different fish can be. I have a pleco in one tank that I neve get to see, while the pleco is my main tank is crazy - he seems to never stand still sometimes and LOVES swimming against the bubbles from the air rocks!

 

[Super Dude]

That's funny how different fish can be. I have a pleco in one tank that I neve get to see, while the pleco is my main tank is crazy - he seems to never stand still sometimes and LOVES swimming against the bubbles from the air rocks!

lol yeah. my pitbull plecos (1m, 1f) are a different too. the female sits around in plain sight all day, while the male always hides until night.