How To Get Live Food To Plec.

[LolaLouie]

I have had an L168 for about 3 weeks and he's doing really well, he's out all day and eating really well (cucumber, courgette, algae wafers and fish food pellets) but the thing is I'm not sure how to feed him live food as he lives in a tank with a bunch of S. American Cichlids.

He's really nervous so I couldn't squirt food with a pipette next to him or anything because he just swims away. So how do I get him foods such as bloodworm?

Does he need bloodworm or can he live just on the veg and fish pellets?

Thanks

 

[connorsbala]

For my Caecillian Worm and my plec, i drain a portion of bloodworm out, wash it under cold water to get it all wiggly and stuff, put it in a coffee jar lid or something then slowly fill with water, and then slowly lower it into the tank, and bury in the substrate.
Withing 60 seconds the plce comes along and hogs it all I put soem of the worms in free swimming so the fish get some, then they arent as likely to get soem from the dish...but they still do...pigs!
I do this with loadsa fish and my axolotls too

 

[Colin_T]

The pleco doesn't really need it. They are primarily vegetarian and eat plants and wood. They will eat other things as well including meat foods but you have to be careful they don't get too much. Otherwise it can take a long time to go through their digestive tract and they can develop internal infections from the rotting meat.

If you really want to feed it bloodworms, etc, try feeding it an hour after lights out.

 

[LolaLouie]

The pleco doesn't really need it. They are primarily vegetarian and eat plants and wood. They will eat other things as well including meat foods but you have to be careful they don't get too much. Otherwise it can take a long time to go through their digestive tract and they can develop internal infections from the rotting meat.

If you really want to feed it bloodworms, etc, try feeding it an hour after lights out.

I don't really want to feed it bloodworm because it's more effort than it's worth because I don't want my other fish to over eat. I just thought plecs needed some meat. Well I wont feed him them then. Thanks to you both for your replies!