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What kind of fruits and vegtables can i give my fish as a treat?

What do you give your fish?


Thanks,

Kelly

It seems you can feed whatever they'll eat, pretty much.
Avoid juicy or crumbly things as they'll tend to foul the water.
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It is not a treat it is a main part of their diet.

I feed just about every sort of vegetable and many fruits that we eat.

Raw: Softest things like melon, strawberry, orange, cucumber and leaf lettuce

Blanch: Slightly firmer things like most green leaves (kale, romaine...) zucchini and other summer squash. Most frozen foods.
Peas: pop them out of their skin.
Green Beans: Slice lengthwise. Most fish will eat the tender inside first.

Longer cooking: Yam, sweet potato, harder squash like butternut, pumpkin. Dry cooking such as baking in the oven, or microwaving with just a little water will keep these firm enough not to fall apart in the tank. Boiling seems to make these mushy, they do not hold together well.

Thanks Diana well tell me one thing is it good for the fish probably i think that fishes wont digest these things there should be some specific feed for them????

For cucumber and melons I scoop out seeds first, so I am not fishing them from the tank. The fish love the fruits and veggies. My plecos have to eat zucchini. THey are much too big for algae wafers, although I throw in a few of those two. I go through a kilo of Hikari algae wafers in 3 months. I go through about 2 zucchinis a week.

I am raising a horde of BN (Bristlenose) babies, and I am going through copius ammounts of algae wafers and zucchini. I have about 75 babies.

I think for specific fish and what they like, it depends on the fish and the species. It took a while for my fish to get used to zucchini and they are still not sure about beans. My plecos practically beg for zucchini.

Bersh,
Marine fish have trouble with a lot of terrestrial foods such as starches and root veggies as these things don't occur in the ocean.
Fresh-water fish eat seeds & fruit & grasses and all sorts of terrestrial stuff as the land is so close to (and often flooded by) the water, though things like breads are probably still to be avoided.
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