Feeding Fish Groceries

I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
eat. Here are some results:

I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found that
mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini were
eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp and
threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The swords
and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't keep
more than one per tank.

I will probably try feeding them some beef next. Any suggestion on
what else to try?

"ManWorld42" wrote in message
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|I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
| eat. Here are some results:
|
| I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found
that
| mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini
were
| eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp
and
| threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The
swords
| and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
| picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't
keep
| more than one per tank.
|
| I will probably try feeding them some beef next. Any suggestion on
| what else to try?

Take care with store-bought meat. You can introduce diseases to your
tank.


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Billy wrote:

"ManWorld42" wrote in message
m...
|I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
| eat. Here are some results:
|
| I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found
that
| mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini
were
| eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp
and
| threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The
swords
| and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
| picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't
keep
| more than one per tank.
|
| I will probably try feeding them some beef next. Any suggestion on
| what else to try?

Take care with store-bought meat. You can introduce diseases to your
tank.

Not if its cooked properly

What about crab meat?

Kay

I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
eat. Here are some results:

I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found that
mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini were
eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp and
threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The swords
and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't keep
more than one per tank.

I will probably try feeding them some beef next. Any suggestion on
what else to try?

ManWorld42 wrote:

I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
eat. Here are some results:

I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found that
mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini were
eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp and
threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The swords
and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't keep
more than one per tank.

If it took your fish 2days to eat it you fed them too much. In water at
25C that is teeming with bacteria and funghi by what magic did you stop
the stuff from rotting?

Peter
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The only people food I feed my fish is frozen peas. My festivums can't
get enough of them. I just drop in a couple frozen and they are gone in
5 min. If one does happen to get past the festivums, the pleco gets it.

Vicki


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Peter Ashby wrote:
ManWorld42 wrote:


I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
eat. Here are some results:

I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found that
mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini were
eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp and
threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The swords
and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't keep
more than one per tank.


If it took your fish 2days to eat it you fed them too much. In water at
25C that is teeming with bacteria and funghi by what magic did you stop
the stuff from rotting?


You know I just re read that post, If I fed them food like that, I would
only leave it in the tank a few mins.

Kay

Every now and then I feed my Zebra Danios and the Angel Fish that they
share a 20 gallon tank with, a wee bit of oatmeal flakes, which they
quickly gobble up. Other than that, I only feed the fish in my care
standard fish food, and occasionally very small crickets [Acheta
domestica] which I raise myself, to my Bettas splendens/Siamese Fighting
fish. ~Dean.

(Peter Ashby) wrote in message . ruk...
ManWorld42 wrote:

I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
eat. Here are some results:

I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found that
mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini were
eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp and
threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The swords
and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't keep
more than one per tank.

If it took your fish 2days to eat it you fed them too much. In water at
25C that is teeming with bacteria and funghi by what magic did you stop
the stuff from rotting?

You over-estimated the speed at which food decompose. 2 days is not
enough for purification to take full effect. Besides, the food was
cooked and not raw to start with. It takes a while for the
decomposition to take full effect. You can perform simple experiments
to verify my theory, but of course I doubt if you have the intellect
to do so.

Oh, do you also know that fish have immune system? I doubt that was a
recent discovery.

Peter

(Peter Ashby) wrote in message . ruk...
ManWorld42 wrote:

I have being experimenting with feeding my fish some of the stuffs I
eat. Here are some results:

I have Danios, Platies, Swordtails, Gouramis and others. I found that
mushed peas were surprising well received. Broccoli and zucchini were
eaten but without much enthusiasm. I shredded a mid-sized shrimp and
threw it in my 2 tanks and it was consumed within 2 days. The swords
and platies loved the shrimp. My 2 Blue Gouramis seem to the least
picky of my fishes. I really love my Gouramis, too bad I can't keep
more than one per tank.

If it took your fish 2days to eat it you fed them too much. In water at
25C that is teeming with bacteria and funghi by what magic did you stop
the stuff from rotting?

It took a while for the fish to pick apart the shrimp tissue. It is
not flake food, it does not disintegrate. I leave vegetable in the
tank for 3 days. It takes a while for the vegetable matter to loosen
up. If you throw a piece of broccoli or zucchini into the tank and
remove them within 25 minutes, it is likely none of it will be eaten.
This is especially true if you are feeding Plecos. It takes them a
while to discover the food, and they really only feed at night. So,
if I were to remove the vegetabe after 20 mins, my plecos will starve
to death. To answer your question, there is no magic. The stuffs do
rot, but they don't rot instantaneously. If they do, people will die
if they take more then 10 minutes for dinner. Is that clear yet? Oh
btw, do you know that the air is teeming with bacteria and mold an
fungus spores too? Do you see people dropping dead like flies around
you? Think about that a little will you? Once again, there is no
magic. Sorry to disappoint you.