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Am I starving my pleco? Advice from experience only, please. I’ve read everything I could find online.?
I have a pleco that looks like photos of Sailfins I have seen except he is almost entirely black.
I’ve read that they are bottom feeders, and need a variety of foods. I’ve also read that they are slow moving and usually only venture out at night.
My little (only 2″ right now) guy does NOT meet this description. He is constantly, almost frantically scraping the walls & floor, and he only stops to chew on the driftwood and eat.
Also – NOT a bottom feeder. He is as active during feeding as my Paradise fish. He eats flake, algae wafers (must have his own, or will fight for the one), bloodworms, brine shrimp. He swims freely and grabs whatever he can right out of the water.
I know I have been guilty of overfeeding… but he seems so HUNGRY! I thought these guys were supposed to wait for food to come their way. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some kind of special food I am missing?
I will be picking up cucumber as well, but if anyone has tips I could really use it.
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EEL question??
What do you feed a eel? My son-in-law bought a eel and 3 red tipped black sharks last night, and don’t know what they eat. He has tried frozen blood worms, frozen brine shrimp and regular flakes. So far he said the sharks eat but the eel hasn’t touched anything. What’s your advice? Thanks.
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we’re doing a sea monkey hatchery project…any advice/suggestions anyone? (btw we cant buy a hathery.)?
we cant buy the hatchery…gotta make it. HELP PLZZZZZZZ
sea anemone advice needed asap, found 1 in my salt water tank…?
I bought live rock for my salt water tank and I found a sea anemone on it. It is about 1.5-2″ big, green with white tips. I have no idea how to care for it or feed it. Does it need special light? How much light per day (hours)? What do I feed it? I saw stuff online that says zoo plankton but other stuff says phyto plankton. Which is it? Will they eat brine shrimp? Copepods? Amphipods? Rotifers? I am confused because I saw so many things online but most articles said food is different for different sea anemones & I have no clue what type this is. It looks like the kind I see often here in California tide pools. Also, I have brittle stars & turbo snails. Is this a problem (as I also saw online that some starfish & snails eat anemones)? The more info. the better as I am clueless how to keep him alive & well. Any supplements I should buy that are natural foods or minerals they need?
From what I have seen online it does not look like aiptasia.
This one has a golden beige base (which disappears into the rock) & face, pink raised spot in middle of the round “face”. Tentacles are very short (about just 1/4 inch) & bit fat. They are mint green color and have white on the very end of the tips.
I now believe it is a Anthopleura elegantissima Sea Anemone. How do I feed, care for it? Will it be a problem in my tank? What fish, inverts. will it kill? What kill it?
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