Cucumber.. Watermelon..?

[fishmad135]

I have seen people on the forum say they feed their plec water melon or cucumber.. Is it safe to feed cucumber or any other veg to cory? Just to give a bit of flavour to there diet.. and fun!

cheers,
Imogen

 

[redbug]

I feed my plecos fruit and cucs all the time and my corys will munch on it also they all seem to be doing well

 

[SensesFail]

I put abit in for my African cichlids but they didn't really look interested in it l

 

[raptorrex]

I have seen people on the forum say they feed their plec water melon or cucumber.. Is it safe to feed cucumber or any other veg to cory? Just to give a bit of flavour to there diet.. and fun!

cheers,
Imogen

many do.

 

[Ethan040]

ive got blacks, sterbai, melinistus, bronze, agasizi and trilineatus and ive not seen any of them ever eat the veg i put in for my BN.. they must be picky lol.

 

[Coryologist]

I feed all of my livebearers very, very soft zucchini and most of the Cory species I keep will eat it - but only if it's mushy and falls apart. Then they tear it up. - Frank

 

[mussels]

just one to watch with mellon, i used honey due, most of the fish especially the bn plecs loved it, but then i knottiest the ehiem wasn't running right
cut a long story short as the fish were eating the melon small particles (less than half a mm) got broken off into the water, they then clumped together as they went up the suction pipes of the ehiem pro 3 and blocked both suction pipes to the filter, took me an hour to figure out why the ehiem wasn't pumping any water, both were reduced from a flow to a trickle until i had to blow all the melon particles out into a bucket
have to admit i had given them half a mellon to munch on over a couple of days.

 

[raptorrex]

just one to watch with mellon, i used honey due, most of the fish especially the bn plecs loved it, but then i knottiest the ehiem wasn't running right
cut a long story short as the fish were eating the melon small particles (less than half a mm) got broken off into the water, they then clumped together as they went up the suction pipes of the ehiem pro 3 and blocked both suction pipes to the filter, took me an hour to figure out why the ehiem wasn't pumping any water, both were reduced from a flow to a trickle until i had to blow all the melon particles out into a bucket
have to admit i had given them half a mellon to munch on over a couple of days.

i think the moral here is, dont over feed! (no offence to the poster) only use small amounts until you have found your fish's appetite.