sick (?) pleco slowly starving to death

[fishorama]

Wow Bethany! A very, very nice offer, so generous! You rock! (my sister is Bethany too)

 

[Srenaeb]

Dear all, thank you for the many suggestions and most important of all, opening my eyes to the concept of "stunting". It's amazing to me how many websites and ***********s (like me) just assume that it's true, and when their fish dies accept it as "fact of life".

I've not got a much longer list of "Pleco Cuisine",
and just this morning picked up a much bigger tank =)
Most importantly, just now his tummy is looking like normal again~!!

I hope Leopard lives long enough to enjoy his new digs =D

** special thanks to Bethany again =3

 

[mel_20_20]

dear Melody, Leopard's stopped eating those expensive hikari flakes >..>
I think that started this "slow starvation"

Well, I wasn't going to send you flakes, I was meaning the sinking wafers, the algae wafers, and they also have some with higher protein in them. Have you tried them yet? They look like little flat disks that sink and lay on the bottom. My bottom feeders just love them.

Let me know if you'd like some. However, sounds like he's really into zuchinni, lol. I'm so glad he's getting his tummy back.

 

[Cory Keeper]

Try Kensfish.com.

He offers some nice food including an algae and meat mix. Plecs are omnivores so he would love that. Shipping is reasonable. I need to get some myself. My betta's, cory cats, shrimp and everything else would love that stuff.