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when feeding your fish cucumber or zucchini do you have to do anything special to it. do you have to wash it? with tap water? just throw it in as is? can they eat the skin? what else is good to throw in there for them? i have silver dollars and some lace catfish i would like to give vegetables to. thanks.

Can anyone help me out?

jaloco
Here is my feeding program, also
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This is always done just after the tank light go on early in the morning
Other than the usual flakes, pellets and algae wafers, & frozen bloodworms three times a week there are many other also foods I use.
I mix and rotate the different types of sinking food each day when I do not feed them with the frozen Blood Worms.
The mixture is always Flakes, sinking pellets, and algae wafers broken up. With the Worms they also get the algae wafers broken up.

The different foods I use are many and varied, never at any specific time or day. All this started not long after viewing FP. I am always willing to try something different. I believe that is the reason why my fish are so healthy as they get a good variety of foods.
Heavy fishing line suspends the pear core & the fish frame. The tomato & the zucchini are held to a flat rock by an elastic band. Two small river pebbles hold down the lettuce leaf.

When feeding with the fish frame, pear core, and the lettuce I do not leave it too long, one hour at the most. I would only feed the fish frame the day before I do my 50 Lt weekly water change.
Once I found a tomato seed that had started to sprout in the internal filter I was using at the time.

Fish all fresh & uncooked
SW fish frame.
Various SW fish mashed
Prawns/Shrimp
Roe FW & SW

Meat
Raw lambs liver mashed very fine about 1/2 tea spoon.

Vegetables Cooked all mashed
Beans.
Broccoli
Carrot.
Celery.
Corn
Diced
Peas.
Spinach

Vegetables Raw
Lettuce.
Tomato.
Zucchini.

Fruit.
Pear core
Banana. Small pieces.

Keith

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thanks keith but if i put a piece of cucumber in do i need to wash it?

jaloco

Just to be on the safe side it would not hurt at all.

Keith

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You can wash the cucumber under tap water & then you can feed it to your fish. It's better to be safe than sorry.


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