Small Algae Eating Plec?

[JenCliBee]

I went for the Bristlenose and bought one at the weekend. What a cool fish She wasted no time at all in clearing what small algae I had overnight. It was weird to switch on the light this morning to see it all gone! Whats the best food to feed these, algae wafers?

Congrats on the new addition mate .... feeding wise, yep a good quality algae wafer with a good varied diet of veg.. things like, cucumber, courgette, butternut squash, sweet potato... well pretty much anything. Put it at night and remove the next afternoon, this way it prevents it going bad and messing your tank up.

Also...

Give frozen/live foods as treats once or twice a week.

 

[Sausage]

Great, cheers for the info, very helpful.

 

[Sausage]

Do BN's like to hide in caves for hours/days? I ask as ive only had mine a few days and he has gone from constantly being out in the open sucking up all he can find to now hiding in a cave and not appearing. Is this natural or might he be sick?

 

[kiriyama]

Do BN's like to hide in caves for hours/days? I ask as ive only had mine a few days and he has gone from constantly being out in the open sucking up all he can find to now hiding in a cave and not appearing. Is this natural or might he be sick?

Completely natural, nothing to worry about, they are more active in the evening, even more so after lights out

 

[Sausage]

Do BN's like to hide in caves for hours/days? I ask as ive only had mine a few days and he has gone from constantly being out in the open sucking up all he can find to now hiding in a cave and not appearing. Is this natural or might he be sick?

Completely natural, nothing to worry about, they are more active in the evening, even more so after lights out

Cool, thanks for that This BN has quickly become one of my favourite fish.

 

[the biffster]

Do BN's like to hide in caves for hours/days? I ask as ive only had mine a few days and he has gone from constantly being out in the open sucking up all he can find to now hiding in a cave and not appearing. Is this natural or might he be sick?

Completely natural, nothing to worry about, they are more active in the evening, even more so after lights out

Cool, thanks for that This BN has quickly become one of my favourite fish.

they breed relatively easy as well mine
used to like laying there eggs in a air powered
filter right in the flow of the bubbles and water