I've heard of people giving their fish cheese, but just wanna make sure it won't kill them before giving any to my swordtails. Anyone ever tried before?

I wouldn't advise it. You have not explained why you want to? out of curiosity?

http://www.msscuba.com/forum/index.php/topic,389.0.html

well, I thought if they like it, it would make a good occasional treat, that's all.

wow, that's an interesting article

This post has been edited by Eines: Jun 23 2008, 12:30 PM

i put some cucumber in for my pleco, and the corys made a bit of a fuss over it!

Mice are live bearing and they thrive on it

I tried cucumber and lettuce and my swordtails nibbled on it a bit. I'm hoping they'll eat it more readily once they get used to it.

chicken balti and nam bread went down well, though they do need room in the tank afterwards when they fart.......only joking!!!!!!!

My fish get a weekly treat of deshelled peas and diced prawns as well as the odd chunk of cucumber

do you use frozen peas or raw?

do all fish eat the peas?? ive often heard thats good for them but never believed it! how do you deshell a pea without it falling apart?

this is what i usually do

boil the kettle and add about an inch of boiling water to a cup,
then i add about 5-6 frozen peas and the prawns and leave them there until the peas have all sunk
then i tip away the water and tip the contents onto a chopping board,
here i deshell the peas, (just squeeze it slightly and the inside pops out) and dice the prawns thinly
and pop into the tank a few bits at a time, (i usually add the peas first because most of my fish will go for the prawn over the pea if i add them together

oh, okay, thanks. I think I'll try that tonight, actually!

*goes off to raid the freezer for frozen peas*

they absolutely LOVED the peas it always makes me happy when my fishies like a new food that I try on them, plus, greens are supposed to be especially good for swordtails and I've been quite upset, because I haven't been able to get them to eat any frozen algae.

This post has been edited by Eines: Jun 23 2008, 08:02 PM

frozen algae? do u not defrost it 1st??

This post has been edited by dave1987: Jun 23 2008, 08:06 PM

nope, but I chop it up before and it melts pretty quickly. I never defrost any of my other food and they love that stuff...

there fry should like the algae

I sure hope so. I bought a pretty large package of the stuff, so I have more than enough to go around. lol.

All much better ideas than cheese

Just remember with prawns, don't feed too much and make sure that you syphon any extra, uneaten food quite quickly and don't let it pollute the water.

yeah, I've found with a lot of frozen foods, especially the stuff that comes in bigger chunks like beef heart, often drops into the gravel. ick, I hate having to remove it when they don't eat it. I've never tried prawns though, so I'll give it a shot next time I go shopping for fish food.