L134 diet

[Dayvos]

I recently just got 3 L134 at about 5cm each in a 4 foot tank with some cherry shrimps. There are caves and some wood.

I been feeding them Hirari Carnivore pellets and shrimp pellets before i go to be at night. I leave it in a small terracotta dish. But by morning time it looks untouched. the food had been dispersed all over the tank.

How can I tell if they're eating or not? At least with vege eaters you can tell by looking at the vege. Any advice will be greatly appreciated:hi:

 

[bigbird]

how does their stomach look like. It could be that you are overfeeding and thus food is left over. I usually feed one pellet per fish per day or at most two but no more. cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[Dayday]

guess I'll have to try and fish them out or something. They're always hiding. can barely see them.

Never knew they eat so little. My pepps eat like half a small zucchini, so I thought the L134's would eat a lot as well

 

[Dayvos]

The stomachs were very rounded when I got them. So rounded to the point where when they swim it looks like they were swimming on their bellies.

I've have them for about 5 days now. From what I can see their stomachs dont look sunken, I am so tempted to take them out to have a look but don't want to stress them. As like all my other plecs I have in the past they are constantly hiding, so its hard to really tell.

I've even tried algae disks and a bit of cucumber but it remains untouched. I feed them overnight and by morning there are food left. It's hard to really know how much they're eating as with dried pellets they expand a lot. But I'm constantly having to remove left over food. They're not touching the Carnivore pellets as by morning it's still the same shape as when I put it in the night before. Oh, one thing i do notice is their poo is of similar color to the shrimp sticks feed them like a light grayish brown

Running out of ideas

 

[bigbird]

too much protein when they are bloated is also not a good think.
I would change your feeding schedulle.
Do you ever also just feed a zuchinni ?
I only use Hikari algae wafers and shrimp pellets.
Maybe for 2-3 days just feed them zuchinni and peas( blanch the peas and remove the skin ) add two per fish. Some people overfeed their fish so much when they wish to sell and in my view that is also not good. I am not saying that the seller did this, but i have noticed this practise when I buy fish. I also have one day where I do not feed any of my Ls. cheers jk :thumbup: