house food for loaches...?

[lunasmile]

hey, I just would like to lnow, if it is ok to give some house food to my loaches, like cucumber, zuquini or things like that. I have a couple plecos, and i know that they would like it, but I am not sure about my clown loaches...thanks... victoria.

[Mike Ophir]

Hello,

from my experience adult Clown Loaches (Botia macracantha) do indeed enjoy raw (uncooked) cucumber and zucchini in their diet. You can use a rubber band to keep them from floating up to the surface. When I fed them some cucumber pieces, they were gone in about an hour or so.

It is a food highly appreciated by balitorid loaches as well.

Mike

[lunasmile]

should I put them in the microwave for a few seconds before, or just put the pieces in there? do you know any other food that I can give them? ok thanks for your info... victoria.

[Martin Thoene]

Victoria, read this for ideas..............

http://www.loaches.com/almanac/feeding.html

Martin.

[andyroo]

Related continuation to question:

Any thoughts on hard boiled egg, chicken liver, heart, gizzard?

Cut into little bits as these items can be messy with small particles.
My tank is underpopulated, overfiltered, with current and with a few filter-feeding shrimp, so i suppose i get away with a lot.

Are there any chemical dramas with hard boiled egg yolk? I know it's high in fats/energy. Once it dries a bit it's far less powdery and easier to handle.

Andyroo

[shari]

I've used hard boiled egg yolk in a pinch for angelfish fry. It is really gross, and fouls the water something awful

ONLY in case of emergency (as in something goes wrong with the batch of brine shrimp and the babies are STARVING) will I use it.