Food Suggestions for Royal Whiptails

[fishnet]

I've got 3 Royal Whiptail Catfish in a well planted 3ft tank. Between them, they're consuming a significant amount of plant matter to the point where some of the new plants are being destroyed.

Can anyone make some suggestions on things i could feed them to draw them away from my plants?

I put some cucumber and cabage in the tank. They didn't touch the cucumber, but almost devoured a full cabage leaf over a few days.

[aquaholic99]

They will benefit from a protein rich pellet. Sinking cichlid pellet or shrimp pellet (corydoras food). You could also use some sinking algae wafers. The  cabbage is a good idea.

[Alan Caboolture]

My Royals' absolute favourite food is thin slices of boiled or microwaved Kent or Jap pumpkin.  They are not keen on other sorts of pumpkin. They will also eat blanched zuchini.

A far as plants go, I know of no way to stop them chewing amazon sword plants.  They even chew through the roots of the toughest sword plants.

Barclaya longifolia is absolute caviar to Whips   :(

Alan