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FISH!!!
All the fish that was in the fishtank downstairs has officially moved in with Serra. All of Orange juice's platy friends, 2 elderly red-eyed tetras, and 1 bulldog pleco.

Also, what do you feed the pleco?
He probably can't live off of algae alone, there's too little of it.

Do I give him lettuce? I'll have to give it to him at night when Serra's asleep so she doesn't hog it all...lol

Also, I read that Plecos need driftwood in their tanks? Last time Serra almost got stuck under it so I took it out...

You can buy sinking algae pellets for the pleco, but I bet he'd eat whatever the other fish leave behind too.

thats what i said about my algae eater

But the algae tablets have spinach in them and Serra would eat it...hmm

Small amounts of spinach probably wouldn't be bad. You can also get spirulina pellets too. I have also heard that plecos require wood too, but I'm not sure why or how necessary it is.

Tenodera, I just poked through your flikr album a bit, do you own that venus fly trap? I've been trying to find one and haven't had any luck!

yup! During the summer I'm a succesful VFT breeder...lol

They all died now.

Well mine is spirulina and I checked the ingredients. It has spinach..

you can get really cool carnivorous plants including VFT's at this place...
http://www.blackjungle.com

I got a VFT, a sundew and some pitcher plants from there and they're doing really well going on their second year now. The tropical pitcher plants are difficult to grow though.

My VFTs never make it into hibernation...

i had a VFT and when it went into hibernation my mom thought it was dead so she threw it away

then of course i wanted another one and it went into hibernation and my mom threw it away again

LOL, nice. My mom got me a bonsai once when I went off to college, and it died but stayed very green, so I didn't realize it was dead until I touched it and all the leaves fell off! I didn't know plants could hibernate!

yea, they dry out FAST.

Ooh that blackjungle website has airplants...I have an airplant!
It drinks all its water and nutrients from the air through its leaves.

Now will Serra eat those fish when shes bigger? Id love to get some fish, espcially a Pleco, for my turtles (the babies or the adults) but i dont want the turtles eating them, or worse just taking bites out of them.

haha mybrosteve, ive seen ur turtles nip at drops of water on the outside of their tank let alone something else living in there with em. i think adding any fish to the adult turtles' tank would end in a massacre of biblical proportions.