Feeding Vegetables

[Lesley]

Hi again...


This might seem like a pretty dumb question. I notice a lot of you mention feeding peas to your fish. Are these frozen? Do you cook them? How do you serve them? What other vegetables do you feed raw / cooked?

Want to make sure I get this right.

Thanks

 

[RoyalGrammaPrincessHannah]

I think people only feed peas to stop constipation in fish, at least thats all ive ever read about it.

 

[Fella]

Hi again...


This might seem like a pretty dumb question. I notice a lot of you mention feeding peas to your fish. Are these frozen? Do you cook them? How do you serve them? What other vegetables do you feed raw / cooked?

Want to make sure I get this right.

Thanks

Peas don't have to be fed just when a fish is constipated. Simply thaw frozen peas, and squeeze them a little until the skin comes off, and feed them the pea inside.

 

[PlecMama]

We sometimes give the plecs peas, they hoover them up. They also like cucumber but not courgette or carrot. I have seen them in pics chowing down on a piece of potato but ours wouldn't even look at it. Today Dan found a pic of someone feeding squash to their plecs, there were 5 stuck to it so we're off tomorrow in search of some.

 

[fishing4exotics]

Some fish will eat Romaine lettuce and blanched vegetables.

 

[dwarfgourami]

I boil frozen peas slightly, take of the skin and mush them up a bit. I feed this once a week to my livebearers, not just when they're constipated (actually, they never are constipated, but that might be why). They love it and I think they benefit from a change in their diet. I also feed spinach, broad beans and sprouts from time to time. And jellied bloodworm, daphnia and brine shrimp.

But obviously it depends on the fish. Some are carnivores, or piscivores, so they won't have the same requirements as omnivores (like guppies) or herbivores.

 

[jimbooo]

what ever veg i have with my dinner also goes in the tank.

over the last week i've had prawn coctail (each tank got a leaf of lettuce) roast chicken (fish had broccoli and peas), chineese takeaway (fish got some leftover cucumber from the duck pancakes) and so on.

if it's green the fish will eat it.

one thing though the fish wont touch it till it goes a little squidgy. the lettuce for example was in for 3 days. on day 1 and 2 it wasn't touched on day 3 they were swarming all over it.

dont forget to add the meat side though, i generally feed some kind of frozen food (tubiflex, bloodword, cyclops, artemia) 2 days per week. they need their protein like all of us.