Feeding Fish Real Food

[mhancock]

Hi,

I was wondering of the food that gets put in the bin, how much could be used as fish food? I believe that they like peas, and beef heart, but are other types of meat or veg good for them?

Thanks,



M

 

[Crossfire]

Hi,

I was wondering of the food that gets put in the bin, how much could be used as fish food? I believe that they like peas, and beef heart, but are other types of meat or veg good for them?

Thanks,



M

I feed my kuhli loaches spaghetti with marinara sauce with parmesan, but it seems a little cannibalistic to me.




Seriously now, you can feed fish blanched lettuce, and zuchini

 

[Erisna]

My Betta fish love boiled chicken. Don't know how good it is for them, but they love it as an occasional treat.

 

[mhancock]

Is there anything that they should not be fed?

 

[FishBlast]

I feed my hoplo tiny salad bits, he seems to like boiled carrot but I didn't let him eat it (it was too big for his mouth anyway), same with cucumber rolls, I only gave those two vegs to the snails. None of my fish like peas. Boiled or otherwise.

I would not give meat to the fish or anything salty.
The salty meat's for my turtle, lol! She loves fried, boiled, baked chicken wings / drumsticks... basically any part of chicken. She occasionally eats fried / baked fish, but it's annoying that she mostly scatters it and needs it in huge amounts to be full. She doesn't like raw fish (odd for her, being a pond turtle...)
I've read that Emys Orbicularis should be eating vegetables as they grow. Well... not this one. She hates vegetables. -.-

 

[FishBlast]

What about bread?

 

[Crossfire]

What about bread?

No, people feed fish bread all the time. Like sprinkling crumbs on a pond to feed koi.



Shouldn't feed fish filet mignon

 

[FishBlast]

What about bread?

No, people feed fish bread all the time. Like sprinkling crumbs on a pond to feed koi.



Shouldn't feed fish filet mignon

My mom always said not to feed bread to fish because it 1) contains salt 2) may get so inflated in the fish that it bursts its guts.

 

[ShinySideUp]

Hi,

I was wondering of the food that gets put in the bin, how much could be used as fish food? I believe that they like peas, and beef heart, but are other types of meat or veg good for them?

Thanks,



M

Cucumber, especially for Clown Loaches. A piece that is about a quarter of an inch thick with the skin left on. CL's will eat the middle bit within a few minutes as it is the softest part. As the hole in the middle gets larger the next bit will get softer until after two days you will be left with a ring of green skin. Take that out and drop in a new bit, they never get bored with it.

 

[tomtomtom1230]

What about bread?

No, people feed fish bread all the time. Like sprinkling crumbs on a pond to feed koi.



Shouldn't feed fish filet mignon

My mom always said not to feed bread to fish because it 1) contains salt 2) may get so inflated in the fish that it bursts its guts.

Minute amounts of salt yes. If you bought a 'free from' or a low salt bread it'd be OK. If you made your own bread but made it without salt then it'd be better for your piece of mind I imagine. Bread doesn't swell up very much in the water at all. It gets heavier but most things do when they get wet. Bread wouldn't hurt larger fish at all but to feed smaller fish anything like that you'd need bread crumbs. I can't imagine it has very much nutritional value to a fish, though.

 

[Cupster]

Mine go nuts for squished peas, then the pleco guards the sunken shells lol