Vegatables For Fish...

[CluelessScot]

Hello All,

I was wondering if someone could tell me some veg that fish eat and how to prepair it?

Things i know already are that:

1. Cucumbers for Corys - Dunno how to prepair?
2. Broccoli for Plecs - Dunno how to prepair, but i know if you stick a plant weight on the bottom it sinks lol...
3. Banana for Danios - Mushed up a little and they went nuts.
4. Peas for? - Shell them and much a bit i think?

I also have sissor tails and rams, anything i could feed them?

I would like my fish to have a great diet and i would think veg comes into it somewhere lol?

Kev

 

[WILDER]

http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/feed...egetables.shtml

 

[Inchworm]

Hi CluelessScot

I never feed my corys any vegetables except peas, and that's only for fun. If I'm cooking frozen ones for myself sometimes, when they are done, I'll take a few and cool them and squeeze their contents into the tank. The corys seem to enjoy them, but most of the vegetable matter in their diets is from spirulina discs or Hikari wafers.

 

[CluelessScot]

Exellent, Ill try that

 

[kris-b-]

If you try the search facility on this site and search for vegatables you will find plenty of threads with info. I do recall one where people listed the type of vegatable they fed to each fish and how they prepared them!

Good luck

 

[Briarmoor]

The brine shrimp I feed is spirulina enhanced although I don't know how much that adds of "green" to the diet. Someone recommended canned spinach and the gold gourami took in a mouthful of that and spit it out as hard as she could - disgusting evidently!

I do peas a few times week and all the fish will eat them. I also do the algae wafers. Freeze fresh sliced squash or cucumbers, this is supposed to soften them. Then thaw and warm to room temp. I hang the slices on the sides of the glass with suction cups or I weight them under a decoratoin at the bottom of the tank. The otto loves squash best as does the pleco who will suck onto the slice all day and eat most of it.

I too remember a thread on this topic, but never know how to go back and find anything.

 

[dwarfgourami]

I have recently tried broad beans (popular with the livebearers), carrots (which I don't think I cooked long enough, they liked the flavour but found them tough), lettuce (nobody seems to like that much), spinach (clearly tasted better)- but peas are the best. Just lightly boiled, deshelled and mushed up a bit. The corys love it.

Must remember to try them on sprouts one day.

 

[WILDER]

Mine can't stand lettuce or cucumba must be them telling us they have enough water in the tank, without having to eat it.

 

[CFC]

Slices of par boiled potatoe are great for plecs. Take an average sized potatoe add it to boiling water and cook for about 5 minutes, then slice off a piece about 1/2" thick and feed it to your fish.

Blanched lettuce for herbivoruous Characins and Cichlids. Rommaine or Cos lettuce is best, plunge a leaf into a bowl of boiling water, leave it for a few seconds and then remove it and run it under the cold tap, feed in a lettuce grip attached to the side of the tank.

Courgette (zuchini) is a good alternative to cucumber. Blanch it (same as for lettuce) and feed in a lettuce grip or weight it down with a stone.

 

[CluelessScot]

Wee, will try these out thanks

 

[Clairel]

I have heard some of you feed your fish bannanas? I think if so this is cool, and what do you do, just mush it up really small??

C x

 

[Clairel]

Ive just put some mushed up bannana into my tanks, and so far my silver dollars, angel fish, and mollies are all eating it

My zebra danios and 2 gouramis in my other tank, havnt touched theres yet though....

C x

 

[dwarfgourami]

I too was inspired to try the bananas. The corys weren't that impressed, but the livebearers gobbled it up. Got a bit of a shock afterwards when it all started coming out the other end; I thought they'd all got worms, it looked so pale.

 

[benzonar]

You should try sweet potato

My plecs love it and the Kribs have a good go at it as well. I just slice it and clean it and then par boil it enough so it sinks. It remains quite solid which allows the plecs to rasp on it