you want to do WHAT with that cucumber!

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So I was wondering, can I feed my fish hunks of store bought cucumber?

in particular these fish -

malawi mbuna,
Jewel cichlids,
Angel fish,
Neons,
Glo-lites,
bettas,
black skirt tetras,
columbian tetras,
brilliant rasboras,
scissor tail rasboras,
upside down catfish (he probably wont come and take any though)
Hoplosternum catfish.

thanks in advance! :)
 
Yup. Clean the cucumber, slice it up, and weight it at the bottom. Leave it in there for several days--it takes fish a little bit of time to learn that it is food. Zucchini is also a good choice. Some people peel it first, but I find that many of my fish prefer the peel.
 
Cucumber is aquaria-safe and a favorite food for pl*co. That said, I'm not sure that any of your fish will be interested... I tried cucumber (and zucchini, and romaine lettuce, and sweet potato...) but couldn't get many ottos or hillstream loach to eat any of it, and the rest of my fish never paid the cucumber any attention.

You'll also want to keep the cucumber at the bottom. You can either blanch it (boil it in water for a couple minutes until it no longer floats), or use something to hold it down (veggie clip, thread it w/ fishing line connected to a weight).
 
My otos just love zucchini! I was actually getting a bit worried about them eating too much, but I guess they would stop when they are full (at least I hope so). I have noticed a slight film on my water since I started feeding cucs and zucchini, however. Do I need better filtration, or will it be fine? Its a 10 gal, I do a 2 gal waterchange every Saturday.
 
thats funny your otos and hillstream loach dont care for the cucumber locust, mine absolutely love it. the hillstream will just stay stuck to the side of it for hours munching away. even one of my female apisto cichlids has decided the cucumber is tasty. i almost allways have a chunk of cucumber in the tank becasue when i dont my otos seem to decide that my albino cories look like food and i dont want the little guys getting rasped.
 
Many more than plecos and algae eaters will enjoy veggies. My rainbow shark is the first one to go after it--he eats the rind, mostly. The gouramies will pick at it after it's been in there a day or two, as the fibers become more accessible to their mouth shape. I think the only fish I have not seen go after it are tetras and pure carnivores--though my puffers love the fact that veggies attract snails in hordes.
 
My mbuna went wild over it. Ditto cherry barbs (but then, is there anything they do not eat?).

Mine stays in ~24 hours, then is moved to the snail tanks, where it feeds the snails, which in turn feed the puffers, which live in the house that Jack, I mean Robert, built.
 
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