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I have danios and cories.... I just wanted to know in genaral just not for my fish i find this quite interesting..... I so far tried lettus and tuna fish (in water) Fish tore up the tuna fish the lettus they toke a poke at but didnt really enjoy it. Im going to try alittle orange next......

I tried a piece of steak last night my cories tore it up and my danios loved it also.....it was cooked

i tried earthworms once with my SA Cichlids... suprisingly they didn't really go for it. they are addicted to chicken nuggets i guess... nah, they mostly get Hikari Pellets and Frozen Bloodworms and Beefheart so yea... I guess they're happy with what they have. Oh well.

.mitch.

I tried the cabbage last night (as it was all that was left in the fridge) and I found my CAE looking very dead this morning.

Coincidence or some alien conspiracy?

brtaylor2000, mosquito and fly larvae are good. My goldfish in the pond feast on them in the summer and we even took some in to put in the tanks and they were a favourite. However, black flies larvae are not good because they have some sort of string (like a spider web) which the fish couldn't handle. Earth worms are good too and I don't know of any problems they might carry.

However, I would not recommend live tubifex worms. I only fed them once when my local store didn't have blood worm and it took me a couple of month (and the death of some fish) to reverse the effect of that one poor feeding...

Earth worms are excellent foods. I used to feed my predetors nightcrawlers. Now I mostly only use the red worms. The fish just cannot get them quick enough.

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There is always a bigger fish...

i've been meaning to try earth worms, are there any complications with using them live?

i guess anything ppl use as bait when fishing works... we always used to use lunchoen meat as kids and maggots...

have anyone tried house fly larva? I was thinking of that the other day I was just afraid to try it

Could I ask what my fish won't eat and what I haven't tried? I've fed small bits of salad shrimp, peas (a favorite), carrots, brocolli, cauliflower, boiled eggs (hardboiled, then some), spaghetti (this was a hoot to watch!!! They would slurp them up like we do when they are too long), oranges, ghost shrimp to the goldies (amusing as well, the shrimp would try to jump out, and the goldies go after them)...Like I said, what won't my eat??? Threw a moth in the other day just out of curiosity, well the guppies demolished that before I could turn around. Oh and when I'm doing something in the tank...my fingers, hands, and arms... That can't be good for them, can it?

Heidi



"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

SA Community tank:
All veggies are blanched in boiling water to soften them, I even wilt the lettuce:
carrot
PEAS
corn
zuchinni
cucumber
spinach
squash
sweet potato
apple
banana
orange
lettuce
brocolli
cabbage
brussel sprouts
swiss chard
various greens
pear

almost any vegetable I can think of, really. . . depends what I have in my fridge :%)

raw fish and seafood: shellfish, shrimp, salmon, tuna, etc.

weird stuff I catch or cultivate:
insuforia
mosquito larvae
green algae
chopped earthworm
shelled snail

There is probably more but that's all I can think of for now.

The bettas get a few of those foods but not all. I feed them a shelled pea once a week, mosquito larvae, chopped earthworm, shelled snail, small pieces of raw fish/seafood.

Be very careful if you go out collecting anything, as there may be pesticides in "wild" foods. I usually put any worms or anything else I find in dechlorinated water for a ay or so to flush anything out.

Peas, grapes, plain cooked rice (just cause I was having it and forgot to get food for them ).

The only one I feed on a regular basis however is the peas for the goldfish, barbs and danios. Surprisingly enough the white skirt tetras go for the peas as well :%).

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I was looking around and saw some pictures of someone feeding bananas, oranges, even pasta to their fish wow!!! Anyone else do this or any other foods you feed your fish. Maybe it can help me save money and fish can have a bigger scale on their food chain......

Last edited by brtaylor2000 at 12-Dec-2004 17:02

Last edited by brtaylor2000 at 12-Dec-2004 17:03

Zucchini, lettuce, fresh spinach, frozen peas and broccoli, pasta, banana, tomato...broccoli is by far the favorite with my fish.


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chicken nuggets i've given mine cooked salmon, was thinking about prawns too, the frozen type that you get in prawn cocktails, thawed obviously

my fish like chicken nuggets. i'm not sure how healthy that is for them. i've only done it once, simply out of curiosity. they loved it though.

.mitch.

Some people have tried string cheese. I've tried it cause i was really bored at the time and it worked ok. I will never do it again though.

Here is my feeding program


Other than the usual flakes, pellets and algae wafers, & frozen bloodworms three times a week there are many other also foods I use.

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

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

Vegetables Raw
Lettuce.
Tomato.
Zucchini.

Fruit.
Pear core
Banana. Small pieces.

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


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Hmmm...I was gonna say "Well there made with eggs..." but eggs are in the Meat and meat alternatives group, aren't they? Oh gosh I'm losing it...LoL.

Scrambled eggs aren't dairy food...

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I know goldfish will eat almost anything you give them...I've tried kiwi fruit, banana, lectuce, grape, apple, cucumber and scrambled eggs so far. Try not to feed dairy products to much though (like the scrambled eggs) Once a month or every 2 months as a treat is good. My goldies eat a different veggi/fruit about every week along with thier flakes, crumbles, pellets, freeze dried foods and frozen foods. Live food is prolly the best thing they can get but I don't feed it (Don't have the time to culture it)