Pleco Foods?

[bUcky]

i have:
1 common
3 rubbernose
2 bristlenose
1 clown
2 albino chocolate
2 gold nuggets

they are all juviniles i just recently bought them all within the last 2 weeks.
i added them to a few different tanks. and ive been feeding them hikari sinking pellets.
but ive been wanting to get them on to fresh fruits. so i went out and bought them zucchini, yellow squast, cucumbers, and romain lettuce. i read they can all eat these?

my q are?

how do i serve? the vegies to the pleacs. i know my cichlids eat cucumbers and squash floating, but how do i get thevegis to sink? or will the plecos swim up to get them? and since i have a few different plecos are there any that i have that need special needs? i read that clown plecos need wood to eat so i have him in my small 10 gallon with drift wood in it.

thanks

 

[pieman]

I need help with this also, my Medusa Pleco (1.75") never seems to eat any flake food which floats from the top when I feed my other fish, and he never touches the algae wafers which my neons seem to enjoy. I did give him some cucumber and lettace once but he never touched that either. I suppose my tank is full of brown spot algae, but he doesn't seem to be eating much of that either.

 

[sven_sol]

I've found that if you want a piece of cucumber to stay sunk, then use and elastic band and flat stone/slate.

Works a treat, and they don't seem to mind the elastic band being in the way either!

 

[ghent_3rd]

Just get some of that stuff that you can use to weight plants down and put it through the cucumber or whatever.
Alternatively, get one of these from eBay

Screwcumber

 

[bUcky]

well i got the problem with sinking the food fixed, but there not eating. since the original post ive moved all the plecos into the same tank. droped a cucumber chuck, zuccini, and some shelled peas. and none of the pleacos touched them. i even turned all the lights out and gave then hikari waffers and nothing. are there any tricks to get them to eat?

 

[Phoenixfish]

garlic powder is ment to be a great food stimulater

 

[bUcky]

just regular cooking seasoning? have u used it or anyone? how much?

 

[fish mad]

I need help with this also, my Medusa Pleco (1.75") never seems to eat any flake food which floats from the top when I feed my other fish, and he never touches the algae wafers which my neons seem to enjoy. I did give him some cucumber and lettace once but he never touched that either. I suppose my tank is full of brown spot algae, but he doesn't seem to be eating much of that either.

Mine love the pellets they sink to the bottom and he gets there first .