phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Not sure if this should be in the catfish section or here. I suppose here it reaches a wider audience. Now sit down lads and lasses while I take you through a fascinating tale of how you can feed your bottom feeders like cories, loaches, and best of all those plecos we all love so much. Step 1: You have to get a fresh courgette (you do not have to extravagantly display it for the camera) Step 2: Take a sharp knife to said courgette and make a lateral incision slicing said vegetable in half :lol: Step 3: Take an assortment of bottom feeder pellets and poke them into the courgette. I have used Hikari bottom feeder pleco tabs, tetra min bottom feeder tabs, and nutrafin pleco logs (new food). Don't forget to put some food in the skin, as some fish eat the green bit too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Step 4: Take a tweezer or similar and tie some fishing line to it. Step 5: Skewer said vege food like so: Step 6: Submerse the vegetable like so: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 And now we observe said inquisitive, nosey fish eat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 And that ends our tutorial Enjoy! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 I prefer to just cut up the courgette, boil it for about 5 minutes in the microwave(Realistically, put in microwave, set for 5 minutes and then remember it half an hour later). No need to worry about weighting it down, no fluffing around trying to poke pellets into it, just throw them straight in the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 I prefer to just cut up the courgette, boil it for about 5 minutes in the microwave(Realistically, put in microwave, set for 5 minutes and then remember it half an hour later). No need to worry about weighting it down, no fluffing around trying to poke pellets into it, just throw them straight in the tank. but that's no fun! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Phoenix, your method definitely looks like fun! I prefer to stick a teaspoon in the courgette because I don't like the idea of fishies poking themselves with sharp things like tweezers (and I don't let them run with scissors either :lol: ) But I have never tried sticking other food in there - might be an extra bit of fun for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 every time i drop a piece of hikari in the tank the big clown loach takes it and swims all around the tank until it dissolves. least this way they all can eat their hikari! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 every time i drop a piece of hikari in the tank the big clown loach takes it and swims all around the tank until it dissolves. least this way they all can eat their hikari! :lol: My biggest loach takes it and hides in her cave with it. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N1CK Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Im going to have to try this when i get my loaches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfur Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 spoiled fish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcooze Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 One question; do you find that the courgette dissolves into soft soggy bits, if not eaten, and clogs up your filter at all? Any solutions or tips to avoid this? Perhaps more BNs?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketman Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 my plec gets carrot (which he leaves till last) cucumber, and courgette. i love watchinghim try to eat the cucumber when he makes a ring out of it, he goes round in circles (the cucumber floats slightly) trying to eat the middle, or he takes it into his cave and you just see his tail swishing as e forces it up against the back glass. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morcs Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 I dont need to feed my bottom feeder as hes awesome. He goes around eating sand and cleaning it Good ol eartheaters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketman Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 nice photo! yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcooze Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 We have two distinct circus rides that happen with smaller slices of courgette floating on the surface. 1. The merry-go-round where 2 or 3 little Bristlenoses all latch onto it and end up spinning round in the water like a carousel. If it was me in there I'd get dizzy and throw up! 2. The rising/sinking tide. Depending on variables the carousel will start to slowly sink when more BNs join in. The downwards drift reverses when one decides to go elsewhere. Up and down. I have had my 77 year old father sit in front of the tank and count the number of up-downs in a rowfor us (he was loving it). 12 cycles before the teenagers enthusiasm diminished and some of them went looking for algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 I usually have all my plecos eat the courgette, along with the 30or so e. yellows and the 20 dems. then megatron (big bn) come along and sits on the entire courgette and eats the whole thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 that's a stunning tank makes me want to try cichlids have you got a full front pic of it? good idea too, i'll have to try it out with my bristlenoses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 that's a stunning tank makes me want to try cichlids have you got a full front pic of it? good idea too, i'll have to try it out with my bristlenoses yeh I have lots of pics! :lol: there is only a 22page thread about this tank, but here is another 2 pics I just took. Thanks for the complement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted November 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Bump for henward - read this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscnz Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 i love how your dragging up old threads P44 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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