Need help with my plecos

[Claudia]

Hi all, i have a couple of plecos in a 20g tank with a gourami and 3 kribs (were 4 but one committed suicide about a week ago) I saw one of the plecos on the windows and he looks skinny, i have been feeding algae waffles and giving them zucchini 2 times per week. I don't know if they are not eating enough or they are not getting food at all.
I have an empty 20g that i will b moving them too to make sure they are the only ones eating but what can i feed them that will b nutritious for them and will help to gain their weight? Thanks in advance

[charles]

what type of plecos? How long you have it? water parameter?
20g of water can go wrong really quickly if you overfeed, or food got leftover.

[Claudia]

I have common one, silver tip and albino. I have the same problem with a Leopard pleco i have in a 72g tank, just saw him not long ago and he is skinny too

[CRS Fan]

Claudia, it almost sounds like internal parasites of some sort. Just an observation...

JMHO,

Stuart

[Claudia]

They seem fine other then skinny

[charles]

how about a reading of your water parameter. I am not surprise if you have a ph crashed.

[plantedinvertz]

Lots of spinach is good (:

[Claudia]

Seems like my plecos are doing much better, they dont look as skinny anymore. I did move them to a tank just for the 3 of them and i have been feeding them zucchini more often, i think they were not getting enough food but i am still checking and hopefully they are not sick

[2wheelsx2]

From recent research that I've done, Ancistrus and other awfuchs feeders actually like to feed constantly instead of sporadically, so unless you have a lot of algae in your tanks, you're better off feeding them a little every day rather than 2 or 3 times a week.

So you might try giving them a wafer every night after lights out and fresh veggies in smaller portions more often. I've taken to giving my smaller plecos a leaf of Bok Choy every night and taking it out in the morning. Mostly nothing left to take out by morning though.

[Claudia]

They eat every day but i was feeding zucchini 2 times per week, now that i have seen them skinny and i was afraid of loosing them i am feeding zucchini every other day and they still get fed everyday on flakes or algae waffles etc There is no really a lot of algae in the tank and i guess the other fish were eating more and not leaving the plecos enough food, well i hope that was the case cause i dont want to loose them.

I am still checking tho, they seem ok so far but hopefully there is not anything else wrong with them