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Surfer
05-23-2006, 4:16 PM
Well I read something about fish eating zuchini and stuff so well I cut up some cucumber very small pieces and well my 8 inch columbian catfish started to gobble em up. My clown loaches are feeding on them as well. This isn't going to hurt em is it? Thanks a lot guys
Surfer
05-23-2006, 4:31 PM
now she just ate a whole raisin.....
Surfer
05-23-2006, 4:49 PM
I haven't seen his belly this swollen since he was about 4-6 inches! He's eaten two raisins and a bunch of pieces of cucumbers
Penfan66
05-23-2006, 4:49 PM
No shouldn't hurt at all. I feed cukes to my fish...they eat them, they just don't devour them like zucchini.
Surfer
05-23-2006, 4:51 PM
what are cukes?
dorkfish
05-23-2006, 4:52 PM
I try to feed my fish any veggie or fruit they'll eat, it's all good for them, they don't eat flake food in nature so you should definetly vary their diet a little.
EDIT: cukes are cucumbers.
Penfan66
05-23-2006, 4:54 PM
what are cukes?
Eh...short for cucumber...
:laugh:
InvaderJim
05-23-2006, 6:50 PM
What kinds of fruits and veggies could smaller fish eat? I don't think my fish could even do any harm to a cucumber. lol
dorkfish
05-23-2006, 6:51 PM
any fish can eat any fruit or veggie. you just gotta cut it up for them.
Roan Art
05-23-2006, 7:03 PM
When I put zucchini in my tank for the clown loaches and SAE, my rainbowfish hover over them. They won't pick at the zucchini at all, but snatch the little pieces that fly out of the loaches' mouths.
They keep the tank nice and clean :)
Roan
Surfer
05-23-2006, 7:23 PM
most of my tank is bottom feeders though. I mean ya know. The danios and tetra stay up top mostly so.....I think I'm at the peak of my tanks capacity so I don't think anymore fish are going to go in.
InvaderJim
05-23-2006, 8:10 PM
None of my fish are bottom dwellers so I think I would have a hard time feeding them anything that doesn't float.
onepawnup
05-24-2006, 2:52 AM
most of my tank is bottom feeders though. I mean ya know. The danios and tetra stay up top mostly so.....I think I'm at the peak of my tanks capacity so I don't think anymore fish are going to go in.
I think with the pictus and the clowns you are over your tanks capacity
at least thats consistant with the studying i have done
Onepawn