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I have to add algae wafers for my plecos but my chinese algae eater has pretty much stopped eating agae.

Thanx for all the good ideas given, looks like i’ve been feeding them too much ,their stomachs always bulge like balloons yet they still go on picking food from the bottom.I’m cutting down the feeding time and also reducing the amount of blood worms.Like they say, a hungry fish is a […]

I have several different semi-agressive fish in a 60 gal. tank that eat 3-4 different kinds of food depending on the day. I know everyone feeds their fish differently but for mine we use sinking pellets for the noc fish and catfish, rainbows and balas, wafers for the pleco, brine […]

I got my first common pleco when I adopted a severely overstocked 10G tank back in 2005 and I did a ton of research and forum posting in PlecoFanatics to figure out what kind I had and what he needed… which is how I learned so much about them.
He was in that 10G tank for […]

I am not sure what foods cory’s enjoy.
Hi Paula:
My Cory’s eat anything that hits the bottom of the tank aside from algae wafers they eat blood worms, beef heart, zuchinni etc. In my tanks when there are at least four or five they will lay eggs. If you have […]

I recently bought six cory cats (of two different varieties) for two different tanks. I have been feeding them algae wafers and shrimp pellets along with the fish flakes that the fish in the tanks fish eat. Just wondering if there is anything else I should be giving them? I put peas […]

Sounds like that would be best addressed to each food manufacturer.
If it’s Chinese made, algae meal could be melamine. LOL
I’m looking at my pack of Hikari Algae Wafers and there’s lots of “meals” (fish meal, dehydrated alfalfa meal, wheat germ meal, dried seaweeds meal, krill meal) and lots of other non-meal goodies but no algae […]

I believe, traditionally, “meal” refers to a ground up or finely grained product…usually grains…
From the Miriam Webster dictionary…
Main Entry: fish meal Function: noun Date: 1854
: ground dried fish and fish waste used as fertilizer and animal food
(big ewww)
Main Entry: […]

All of my fish including the plecos and chinese algae eater love the algae wafers..the only one that doesnt touch it is my swordtail. The platies, mollies, guppies and even the danios (sometimes) all go for the wafers as soon as they are dropped in at night.

That seems to be exactly whats going on. Its rather funny watching my two huge tinfoils run (swim very fast) away from the little worm of a CAE. The CAE is quite the character. I put him in with the tinfoils because they are the larger of all my fish and I assumed they could […]