Weighting Down Foods

[KnaveTO]

So, having a variety of plecs to feed I need to feed a rather varied diet. With veggies it is easy... I have some stainless steel knives and some screwcumbers to weight them down with. However with the hypans I need to feed them meat... which means a variety of sinking carnivore pellets, dried krill and tubifex, as well as frozen mysis & brine shrimp as well as blood worm. So when it comes to the dried stuff... how do you deal with it? Most dried product once it is reconstituted will flot... how do you keep it at the bottom of the tank?

[Katalyst]

Try hikari's carnivore pellets or Meat wafers from www.kensfish.com, they are both favorites and both sink.

[KnaveTO]

I do use carnivore pellets... but alternate with other meats

[Katalyst]

How are the screwcumbers?

[KnaveTO]

For veggies they are great. Good weight to them and will hold down most veggies... except for mushrooms... defintely recomend them for anyone thinking of buying them.

[blossom112]

I like his menu but most have copper in them ?
I wont buy anything with copper in it lol
cant we make our own ?
I use nutrafin max and it seems to have all the same ingredients - the copper , was hard to find but i can get them now .
is their a way to sink non sinking foods for meat eaters?

lol I was thinking buying a coconut (idea from a post)and dremmel a hole ,but then need to weigh it down was thinking to then that would mean the pleco would have to eat upside down .

I have never kept a strictly meat eating pleco so this will be interesting ,and thinking maybe i could come up with a recipe then use a dehydrator .

any ideas or info on meat eater and weighing the food down would be great .
Going to get food tonight and try and figure it out in a bowl of water lol
and hope the new ones will be as easy as the vegie eaters to train on an eating spot!!!!!!!

anyone know where to get spacific diet requirements ?