My Royal Panaque

[idlefingers]

I've had my Royal Panaque for a month or so now but have struggled to get good pics. He spends a lot of time out and about and will let me walk past the tank, but if I stop in front of the tank, he runs. He's been slowly getting more used to me and has finally let me get a few pictures of him not blurry!!

 

[Maximus]

Wow, nice pics

What's that he's eating?


Cheers,

Maximus

 

[idlefingers]

Thanks. He's eating a chunk of sweet potato.. seems to be his favorite.

 

[Maximus]

A "chunk"

Thats one huge-ass potato!

Do the silver dollars go for it?



Cheers,

Maximus

 

[three-fingers]

Lovely plec and a great tank overall .


On a sidenote:

Woah, you have silver dollars, and they aren't eating your vallis!

 

[idlefingers]

yeah, it is a little large. I leave it in for a couple of days as it softens. The plec eats it right from the word go, but the dollars wait 'till it's softer and then slowly pic little bits hanging off from the plec's chewing! The plec eats and poos it out so fast its like sweet potato sausage which my silver dollars seem to love

*edit* ohhh they do eat the vallis.. in the middle pic, the green to the right hand side is whats left of the old plant. They much it until it's about 1" long and keep it at that, which then causes it to branch out into a bit of a carpet (until oscar decides he's not happy with it!)

 

[paul_219]

Very nice pics. WOnderful fish and nice tank.

 

[SMAUG]

love the photos

 

[kewskills]

lovely photos

 

[PRW1988]

Awsome fish and awsome tank, how many gallons is it?

 

[idlefingers]

Cheers for the kind comments, everyone.

The tank's 135g (6ft x 2ft x 1.5ft)

 

[Chuka1212]

Beautiful pics, pleco, and tank! When I first saw the pics I thought the pleco was muching on a chunk of cheese!

 

[Naughtygirlrlw]

^^^^
Me too!

 

[stang1]

Beautiful!!!!

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

Nice! At my pet store we sell smaller ones for about 85 USD. How much did you pick that one up for?