Is Bogwood Enough?, For my Clown Plec |
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Is Bogwood Enough?, For my Clown Plec |
Apr 13 2006, 12:49 AM
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![]() Fishaholic Group: Members Posts: 347 Joined: 14-August 05 From: Northwest England. Member No.: 15237 |
My Clown Plec lives in my community tank and has done for 6 months now, there is a large lump of bogwood but is that enough fot the clown plec? Is there other wood i should be addin to the tank for it? Thanks.
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Apr 13 2006, 08:14 AM
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![]() Fish Crazy Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 6-January 05 From: Bradford, UK Member No.: 10978 |
Bogwood is ideal for them but you can supplement their diet with vegetables, cucumber, courgette etc
Tom |
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Apr 13 2006, 02:07 PM
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A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles Group: Members Posts: 3647 Joined: 16-July 05 From: Berkhamsted, UK Member No.: 14678 |
I agree with Tom.
Assuming that your catfish is a species of Panaque, Panque maccus, then its diet should be primarily wood. Vegetables can be offered, but meaty foods must be fed only very sparingly. I communicated with a scientist working on Panaque spp. and learned that premature deaths of these fish are associated with fat deposits on the internal organs caused by high protein diets. My Panaque nigrolienatus is over 10 years old and has been fed primarily on wood, lettuce, zucchini, and cucumber. You don't need to soften or boil anything, these catfish have strong teeth and if they can digest wood raw lettuce is nothing! My catfish gets catfish pellets maybe once a month. http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/loric...naque/734_F.PHP http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/aquaria/panaque.html Cheers, Neale QUOTE(tomsteer @ Apr 13 2006, 02:14 AM) [snapback]1149236[/snapback] Bogwood is ideal for them but you can supplement their diet with vegetables, cucumber, courgette etc |
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Apr 13 2006, 08:31 PM
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![]() Fishaholic Group: Members Posts: 347 Joined: 14-August 05 From: Northwest England. Member No.: 15237 |
As mine is in a large community tank most of the food is gone before he comes out of hiding even when feeding with lighs out, so it feeds mostly on cucumber, peas and letuce.
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