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Posted by Gill Passman on January 3, 2006, 4:48 pm
Please log in for more thread options Big Dummy wrote:
> Ok I'll bite (sorry)
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> What the hell is a marrow?
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> DB
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>>probably starving ...
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>>i feed my plecs .... mine love blanched baby marrows. i half cook them so
>>they will sink all i do is buy couple of marrows .. peel them and cook
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> them
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>>for +- 10 min till they sink ...
>>strain the lot and chop them into 1" - 2" pieces .. freez the lot and
>>remember to seperate them when they start to freez otherwize they get to
>>hard to sepearate.
>>now all i do is every second night i drop a frozen cube in each of my
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> tanks
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>>..
>>the plecs love the stuph...
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>>you could try cucumber, carrots(blanced), pumpkins(blanched) or just about
>>any veg that sinks
>>Remember a fish that size will need more food than the algae can supply.
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>>most of the other stuph you mentiond will probably kill all your fish ....
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>>>I notice I have a really high death rate of plecos. I keep cichlids,
>>>usually moderatley aggressive south americans, haps and peacocks. I
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> have
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>>>several tanks. I try to keep at least one pleco in each tank to eat the
>>>algae. I have a problem though in that they are always dying
>>>mysteriously,
>>>particularly the small ones. I keep enough of an eye on them to know
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> it's
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>>>not ich and the cichlids pretty much leave them alone, so it's not
>>>persecution or being eaten or ripped apart (at least, very rarely)
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>>>They always seem to survive once they get about 4" -5" long, but until
>>>that
>>>point, it seems like about a 60% death rate, compared to maybe 2% for
>>>other
>>>new fish. What give here? Are they starving? Eating too many toxins?
>>>Don't like water quality, hardnesss, temperature?
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>>>Any advice would be appreciated.
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>>>BD
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A very large vegetable from the same family as cucumber and courgette
(sorry zuccini if you don't understand marrow). They grow to about a
foot plus long with much the same circumfrance - taste wonderful boiled
up with some runner beans or equally as nice stuffed....must be a
British thing....
Gill
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> usually moderatley aggressive south americans, haps and peacocks. I have
> several tanks. I try to keep at least one pleco in each tank to eat the
> algae. I have a problem though in that they are always dying
> mysteriously,
> particularly the small ones. I keep enough of an eye on them to know it's
> not ich and the cichlids pretty much leave them alone, so it's not
> persecution or being eaten or ripped apart (at least, very rarely)
>
> They always seem to survive once they get about 4" -5" long, but until
> that
> point, it seems like about a 60% death rate, compared to maybe 2% for
> other
> new fish. What give here? Are they starving? Eating too many toxins?
> Don't like water quality, hardnesss, temperature?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
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> BD
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