Can I feed my Parrot fruits and veggies?
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I know of a few people that would slice lemon and oranges up and float a circle in each tank. The fish would eat the center out and leave the ring of rind to be retrieved out of the tank later. It was kind of messy and I wondered how bad the acid in the fruit was on the water condition.
I prefer sticking with peas, zuc, cucumber, and frozen pellets.
Frozen pellets = you take the pellet fish food you like and add about 10 pellets to a standard sized ice cube section in the ice cube tray after the ice cube begins to form in the tray and the center is still water. Use fish tank water for so you don't have to dechlorinate it and all. I have a dedicated fish tray for this stuff of course. You can also add cucumber, zuc, and peas to the ice mix. After 24 hours it's solid and you can drop one cube at a time in the tank and it melts in about 10 minutes unless your fish really picks at it.
I prefer sticking with peas, zuc, cucumber, and frozen pellets.
Frozen pellets = you take the pellet fish food you like and add about 10 pellets to a standard sized ice cube section in the ice cube tray after the ice cube begins to form in the tray and the center is still water. Use fish tank water for so you don't have to dechlorinate it and all. I have a dedicated fish tray for this stuff of course. You can also add cucumber, zuc, and peas to the ice mix. After 24 hours it's solid and you can drop one cube at a time in the tank and it melts in about 10 minutes unless your fish really picks at it.
Whats the purpose of freezing the pellets in an ice cube?
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Am I missing something here? Lol I keep my pellets under my tank how would they get freezer burn
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I offered mine zucchini today, well, more for the snails but the parrot was taking a gander, problem I see is how on earth is the parrot going to get chunks of zucchini into its mouth since it can't really bite at it lol, though perhaps he will wait till someone makes a mess of it and he'll nab the floating bits
He's right Chris - frozen pellets. My flowerhorn likes picking at his food, so if I take 10 pellets and freeze them, it takes awhile for a pellet to melt out. So as he pushes the ice cube around a pellet melts and he eats it, he also will try to tear them out of ice too. Since the tank is 80+ degrees it takes only about 10 minutes before it's gone though. He's not very smart and if the NLS sinks to the bottom he doesn't really find it before it's mush, and then he wont' eat it, since the ice floats it keeps his attention.
