The Big Pleco Mistake ~ L number diets in the aquarium

Pleco (Loricariidae) and L number diets and foods as tropical aquarium fishes are not meeting their care requirements within the aquarium. How can we improve our fishkeeping particularly for these fishes? Is it possible and are there brands that cater for these fishes? What are the issues with current brands?


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References:
Lujan, N.K., German, D.P. and Winemiller, K.O., 2011. Do wood‐grazing fishes partition their niche?: morphological and isotopic evidence for trophic segregation in Neotropical Loricariidae. Functional Ecology, 25(6), pp.1327-1338.
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German, D.P., Neuberger, D.T., Callahan, M.N., Lizardo, N.R. and Evans, D.H., 2010. Feast to famine: the effects of food quality and quantity on the gut structure and function of a detritivorous catfish (Teleostei: Loricariidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 155(3), pp.281-293.
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McCauley, M., German, D.P., Lujan, N.K. and Jackson, C.R., 2020. Gut microbiomes of sympatric Amazonian wood‐eating catfishes (Loricariidae) reflect host identity and little role in wood digestion. Ecology and evolution, 10(14), pp.7117-7128.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...


German, D.P., 2009. Inside the guts of wood-eating catfishes: can they digest wood?. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 179(8), pp.1011-1023.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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