Ever offer your fish people food?

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I have kept a number of primarily vegetarian fish over the years, which in nature often eat fruit from over hanging branches of trees, and also eat leaves and other foliage. True goramys, the Central American bocourti and pearsei, and Etroplus suratensus from India, have all have done very well on salad greens, thawed peas, and even broccoli (although feeding broccoli can make an entire fishroom smell like a giant fart). I also discovered these fish love dandelion leaves as well.

 
My giant gourami gets daily terrestrial fruits and veggies along with pellets. Once in awhile my CA gets nori. Besides that, I don't share people food.
 
My bullhead and occasionally my green sunfish will get thawed cocktail shrimp. I plan on feeding it to my pumpkinseed as well once it's large enough to eat it. And pretty much all my predators go nuts when I get some walleye or steelhead out of the freezer to cook and I throw in a small piece or two of the filet for them.
 
Betta132 said:
It was actually gluten-free bread due to celiac (wheat intolerance- makes the immune system go whacko) in the family. Wheat bread isn't allowed anywhere near the house. This particular bread uses a blend of tapioca, potato starch, and brown rice instead of wheat flour. Which I'm sure nobody here was particularly interested in hearing.
Anyway, I don't think it has any bleach in it. I found the recipe online. I won't make it a regular part of their diet, anyway, even if they do like it.

I'll have to try feeding them peas, I'm sure they'll love it. Enthusiastic little boogers. They're like piranha when they see food they like.
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Wouldn't bleach be baked out....?
....anyway...bleach aside, where would one procure said non-wheat bread?
 
Please, do your fish a favor and DO NOT feed them bread. The vast majority of fish cannot assimilate bread, or for that matter any large amount of terrestrial based carbs. Of course they WILL eat it, they are fish and aren't supposed to be more intelligent than their owners. A LOT of foods designed for humans should not be fed to fish, dogs, cats, monkeys, gerbils, etc. Common sense stuff .....
 
Surprised no one's mentioned feeding their fish hot dogs yet.
 
When I still had my jardini, I fed it beef heart, shrimp, squid, fillets. Feed my plecos peas, zucchini.
 
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