fighting over a carrot…

[Magnum Man49 163]

back in the dark ages I trained a large pacu to eat whole carrots, like a rabbit…

Mrs. was making soup today, a dicing up a couple carrots, one piece fell on the floor in the kitchen… I rinsed it off, and plopped it into the silver dollar tank, and they all attacked it like piranha's on a wounded fish… I have been thinking about doing this for a while, but just haven’t gotten around to actually doing it, with them eating the pothos roots… looks like diced carrots are on the menu starting tomorrow… this is a mid sized tiger… there are bigger silver dollars in this tank, but this one is fastest…

carrots are very good for them, and help them keep their color, as they grow…

 

[fishorama44 19]

I would have though slightly cooked carrot was the way to go. Obviously, I was wrong!

 

[Magnum Man49 163]

I would guess blanched would be easier to eat , but raw more natural…

 

[jaylach48 164]

Many of our aquatic beasties like things we do. Like pumpkin? So do fresh water scuds.... well, to be honest, they pretty much like everything.

All plants, fungi and animals are organic units which means that they all have specific, but varied, nutritional needs. The main common need is glucose but it varies as to how it can be taken. Take an avocado; for a human, it is a good food but it would kill my cockatiel in a heartbeat.

BTW, If you have a bird, especially a hook-bill. don't ever give apple seeds. The white apple meat is fine but the seeds contain traces of cyanide.

Everyone pretty much knows that you can't give dogs chocolate but who would guess that grapes are also toxic to dogs?

 

[GaryE9 7]

If you tossed a carrot in with my insect eating killies, they would just think a guy with a spray tan had fallen off a boat. They wouldn't touch it. Drop it in with my Ancistrus, and they'd give it a try. I'd blanch a carrot if I fed one to fish, just to soften it. They used to be an ingredient in my paste foods when I fed a lot of mollies and Goodeids. For plant eaters that can get beyond the hard fibre, they're good food.

It seems I'm keeping fewer and fewer plant eating fish, but I used to grow zucchini in the summer for the fish (it freezes in coins), and a lot of people use various vegetables (ones that don't foul the water) for their fish.

 

[gwand48 164]

I puréed some cooked carrot and then blended it in Repashy Community Plus. It provides them with some extra beta carotene. Good for their health and may improve color.