eat your vegetables

[jacktheknife]

what veggies do you feed different fish? should i give eggplant to my neons?

 

[fearlessfisch]

i have fed blanched broccoli, spinach, zucchini, romaine lettuce, and apples. they eat them all, but devour the broccoli and zucchini first. i boil all veggies for a minute or two before serving.

the otos and pleco appreciate them the most, but gold severum also partake quite often. i haven't seen neons eating the veggies, but maybe they wait until i'm not looking. they do eat frozen veggies that come in cubes from the lfs.

 

[mayreee]

I feed mine peas and they love them. Mostly the live bearers. I tried feeding them zucchini but they wouldn't tuch it for some reason. I have cucumber that I need to feed them but I am not sure how to prepare it.

 

[FawnN]

Cut in half, remove the seeds and then put your cucumber and zuchinni in the microwave for 10-20 seconds. If it's too hot, let it cool for a sec and then attach to a vegie clip.

 

[mayreee]

Thanks Fawn

 

[FawnN]

I do that just to soften it up. It makes it easier for them to eat. You could also throw them in raw too.

 

[jacktheknife]

what is this veggie clip you speak of?

 

[jacktheknife]

did you mean veggie dip?

i like a good chipolte dip...

 

[FawnN]

It's a clip you attach your vegie to so that it doesn't float back up. It attaches to the side of your tank so that your bottom dwellers can get to it.

 

[jacktheknife]

you mean an anchor then?

 

[FawnN]

This is similar to the one I have.

 

[jacktheknife]

would a bag clip work? it look like those magnetic ones you find on trailer park refridgerators

 

[FawnN]

No, because there is a magnetic part with the clip that goes in the tank and the other part that goes on the outside to keep it in place.

Works just like those magnetic algae scrapers.

 

[jacktheknife]

what is the other peice made out of--is it a oppositely charged magnet or a peice of iron perhaps?