Feeding veggies

[jaws7777]

Guys I am trying to incorporate more veggies in my fishes diet. Do tou guys prepare them any special way ?
Right now I just wash of peas shell them and toss them in.

Romain lettuce and spinach (first time today) I just washed them in cool water and stuck them on a veggie clip. Any suggestions

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[Nigelk8485]

I've been trying to do the same mainly using cucumber and zucchini. I just wash, cut a couple of slices and stick the outer prongs of a fork through them and push the fork into the sand. Unfortunately my bichir seems to love zucchini and my severum, who I'm trying to give the vegetables to, seems to go for the bichir's massivore tablets.


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[jaws7777]

I have a similar problem trying to get my l200 to eat cucumber. My metae attakcs any veggie matter and guards it greedily.

So basically no prep besides washing ?

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[divemaster99]

I feed a lot of my fish veggies including Redside dace, Silverjaw minnows, creek chubs, green sunfish, yellow bullhead, striped raphael cat, and gibbiceps pleco. I cut a zucchini or squash into discs then freeze it for at least 24 hours to break down the cellulose, feeding zucchini without boiling or freezing it has no nutritional value for the fish and it's basically just something to chew if you feed it raw. The pleco gets whole discs to chew on but I cut up the discs into small pieces and thaw for the rest of the fish.

 

[xraycer]

I've just recently found out about NLS Alagemax and I'm really impressed with the ingredients:

Algae Chlorella, Ulva Seaweed, Red Seaweed, Kelp, Spirulina, Wakame Seaweed, Whole Artic Krill, Whole Fish, Eucheuma Cottontt, Spinosum Seaweed, Chondrus Crispus, Whole Wheat Flour, Omega-3 Fish Oil, Alfalfa, Astaxanthin, Capsanthin, Zeaxanthin, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Folic Acid, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Stable C), Choline Chloride, Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide, Cobalt Sulfate, Derrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate.

I've heavily mixed into my pellet rotation

 

[JakeH]

Veggies are tough cuz you have to have the right veggie at the right height, with a hungry fish that's trained to know what a veggie is. For example, Nigelk's severum probably needs a soft veggie like cucumber or spinach clipped close to the top of the tank--He's a tough fish, but he's still not going to hang out close to the bottom munching away on a hard zuchini chunk cuz in nature, that's a good way to get killed from behind by a bichir. Captive-bred fish rarely know what to do with veggies, unless they're natural herbivores, so my usual method is to let a drop of garlic extract soak into it before clipping. Garlic will raise the level of aggression in the tank very quickly, so make sure any dangerous fish have already gotten their fill.

 

[JakeH]

I've just recently found out about NLS Alagemax and I'm really impressed with the ingredients:

Algae Chlorella, Ulva Seaweed, Red Seaweed, Kelp, Spirulina, Wakame Seaweed, Whole Artic Krill, Whole Fish, Eucheuma Cottontt, Spinosum Seaweed, Chondrus Crispus, Whole Wheat Flour, Omega-3 Fish Oil, Alfalfa, Astaxanthin, Capsanthin, Zeaxanthin, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Folic Acid, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Stable C), Choline Chloride, Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide, Cobalt Sulfate, Derrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate.

I've heavily mixed into my pellet rotation

Heck yeah, if he's already a pellet eater, try a veggie pellet.

 

[jaws7777]

Mhhh garlic extract interesting is their a certain brand u use?

I mainly wanna get my vieja to start eating more veggies they are little and attack any pellet (nls and omega one) but seems they dont know what to do with the spinach or romain.

Dive in the wild they arent using freezers lol. but then again they probably arent eating zucchini
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[JakeH]

Brand shouldn't matter as long as its made for aquarium use. The Petco by me sells Kent brand, so that's what I've always used--A bottle will last years. They usually keep it in the saltwater section because those fish never want to eat for some reason...

 

[jaws7777]

How donyou apply it ? Say on a leaf of spinich just smother it on ?

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