Sucker fish also should receive meaty sustenance, such as pieces of shrimp or fish fillets. When feeding your sucker fish flakes or tablets with other fish in the tank, make sure you feed enough.
Because they are nocturnal and often slower swimmers, they may not eat enough. Sucker fish also need wood -- typically driftwood -- in the tank to chew on, to get fiber.
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Give your suckerfish supplemental food every evening. Remove leftovers each morning to keep the water from getting murky. As long as you find a little left in the morning, you can be assured that your suckerfish is getting enough to eat. Cut back if a lot remains each morning. However, if he outgrows the tank and feels overcrowded, he may become aggressive. Let a suckerfish be the only burrowing fish in the tank; if he has to compete with others for his burrowing spot, he can become aggressive and fight fish such as knife fish, rope fish or eels.
Suckerfish are nocturnal. They dislike bright lights, so if you want to see your fish move around during the day, dim the aquarium lights a bit. Your suckerfish might eat the plants in your aquarium or dig them up when he makes trenches for hiding. For instance, if you have a gallon tank, you should have a filtration unit that can handle at least gallons of water per hour, or even better, gallons per hour.
This will ensure that the entirety of the tank is filtered at least 4 or 5 times per hour. Moreover, the filter needs to be a 3 stage mechanical, biological, and chemical filtration unit. While suckerfish are quite hardy and resilient, nobody and nothing likes to swim in dirty, smelly, and polluted water, so make sure that you stay on top of filtration and cleaning requirements.
Now it is time to set the actual tank up. In terms of the substrate, you absolutely need to have aquarium sand in the bottom, at least 2. You should not be using aquarium gravel unless it is extremely soft, fine, and smooth. This is because suckerfish like Plecos enjoy being at the bottom of the tank, often sliding their bellies right along the bottom.
Therefore, sand is the best option in order to prevent scratching and other injuries. They like to burrow too, so sand is great. When it comes to plants, unfortunately there are not many options to go with. Suckerfish, especially Plecos, really enjoy uprooting, eating, or just destroying plants. If you do want to have some plants in there with your suckerfish , you need to ensure that they are very well rooted, hardy, and quick growing.
That being said, some leafy plants they can hide under may be ideal, as they do like to hide and relax. In terms of decorations, you should have quite a bit of them in your suckerfish tank. Like we just said, these guys like to hide from other fish and relax, which means that they like decorations. Now, these bad boys are pretty big, so you will need to find decorations that match their size. Large pieces of hollow driftwood , large rock caves, and open castle-type things are all great.
You need to leave a fair amount of open space for swimming, but a lot of caves and hiding spots are necessary too. The lighting is not all that important as long as you have the aquarium water at the proper temperature. Just for a little pro tip, if you want to see your Pleco eat during the day, dim the lights so it comes out. Suckerfish are pretty convenient when it comes to feeding.
They are technically omnivores and will eat extremely small fish and insects, but their main source of food is algae and plant matter.
Many people love having suckerfish because they work wonders in terms of algae control. They will scour the tank in search of some delicious algae to eat. They also enjoy eating the discarded food from other fish, as well as plant matter too. Keep in mind that most aquariums out there, most likely all of them, simply do not produce nearly enough algae to keep a suckerfish well-fed, so you will need to supplement food for their diets.
Since they are mostly herbivores, giving them some algae wafers is a good idea , but some shrimp pellets will work too.
They will definitely enjoy things like fresh cucumber, lettuce, broccoli, zucchini, melon, and sweet potato. Feed them twice per day, but not too much.
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