Do You Have Difficulty Keeping Plecos Alive?
A lot of people are under the common misconception that they do not have to provide any food for
their algae-eating crew.
Unfortunately, this is very far from the truth and results in a lot of fish casualties...
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Do You Have Difficulty Keeping Plecos Alive?
A lot of people are under the common misconception that they do not have to provide any food for
their algae-eating crew.
Unfortunately, this is very far from the truth and results in a lot of fish casualties
along the way.
Here are a few tips that may help you keep your next pleco alive.
1.
Offer them a varied diet of fresh greens and veggies.
There are many different types of algae
that grow in the aquarium, and not all plecos will eat every single kind.
In fact, you would be
hard pressed to find an algae-eating fish that will show interest in species of algae outside of
their specialty.
For this reason, it is important to supplement their diet with various greens and
veggies to keep them from starving.
This also applies to snails, otocinclus, and any other algaeeating critter you’ve got in your tank.
2.
Don’t keep multiple algae eating fish together.
Make sure that you don’t go overboard on fish
and invertebrates that specializ
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