Improving Their Diet

[finalfantay85]

Ok guys i have some guppies, flame tetra and copper harlequin rasboras and i was just wondering what sort of fruit or veg would be good to add into their diets?
They usually get fed on flake but i've got them some frozen daphnia as a treat as well now. I know people have suggested cucumber and boiled shelled peas but can you suggest anything else they would enjoy?
Thanks guys

 

[fishnovice]

Ok guys i have some guppies, flame tetra and copper harlequin rasboras and i was just wondering what sort of fruit or veg would be good to add into their diets?
They usually get fed on flake but i've got them some frozen daphnia as a treat as well now. I know people have suggested cucumber and boiled shelled peas but can you suggest anything else they would enjoy?
Thanks guys

My guppies an dmollies love cucumber. They also eat sliced courgettes and small pieces of potato, both need to be microwaved for 1 min to soften slightly. If you couldn't be bothered cooking, sinking algae pellets are also popular with my fish

 

[finalfantay85]

Yeah my guppies are eating machines. They used to eat the algae pellets I put in but I find them really messy with the gravel and bits tend to end up rotting where i can't get at them.
Will try them with some cucumber definately. They like peas too. What about some blanched lettuce and other things?

 

[OldMan47]

If you can eat it and you can soften it enough for the fish to eat, they will eat it. I feed mine almost anything in the form of vegetables from my dinner plate. They like some things better than others but food is food. Mollies and guppies especially like their veggies.

 

[finalfantay85]

Thanks, i'll try them on a few things, see what they like. Would it be ok to chop a load up, freeze it then just defrost it when i need it?

 

[OldMan47]

Frozen veggies are fine as long as they are ones that take well to freezing. Things like lettuce just dissolve into nothing if you freeze and then try to thaw but other things freeze quite well.

 

[finalfantay85]

Thanks for the advice again, will try it and see what happens and what they like, but to be honest i think my guppies would eat anything that goes in there be it food or a tyre lol.
I got some peas and courgette, a bit of cucumber, and will soak some dried bloodworm to soften it up to give them too. Hopefully they'll like it, otherwise i'll be attempting some tricky maneuvers with a gravel vac later lol.
Oh well i was planning on doing a water change anyway

 

[finalfantay85]

Well it doesn't look like the ungreatful so and so's appreciated my efforts, they seem to be playing a game of chase the pea fragment with one piece of pea and the brocolli, cucumber and courgette seems to be largely ignored. Guess i'll have to vac it out later!