Fruit And Vegetables

[Drew1901]

Hi guys,
as the title suggests this post is about fruit and vegetables you feed your fish
I heard lettuce and cucumber are good but how do you stop it floating?
any tips/recipes that you find effective?

 

[fluttermoth]

You can buy posh things called 'screwcumbers', but I just use a stainless steel teaspoon.
 
Lettuce really needs blanching (boiling water poured over it and left to stand for a few minutes), as do things like peas (deshell them afterwards). Fish do seem to like cucumber, but there's not much goodness in it, being mostly water. Courgette/zuccini is better.
 
You can also try melon rinds, sweet potato and apple. Bear in mind that if your fish aren't used to being fed veggies, it might take them a while to realise it's food.

 

[EllieJellyEllie]

You can feed pea to swimming fish, but those are the only I know. Cucumber has no nutritional value, so its no good. Iceberg lettuce is also no good.
 
You can feed romaine lettuce and zuchinni to bottom dwellers like plecos. Yoiu just put them until a rock with a part showing.