Feeding fish with veggies!!!!

Question

A couple of hours ago, i put some blanched zucchini in my fishtank for the farlowella catfish, pleco, snails, and ghost shrimp. How long can it be in there before it starts to contaminate the water? Also, will it start to fog my tank and require me to do a partial water change?

Answer 1

I have two lionheads (goldfish) that I will blanch and set under a rock in my tank. I will usually leave it in for 30 mins. Some say overnight but I know my fish would eat way too much if I did that. If your fish aren't intrested try frozen de shelled peas also I will cut a thin slice of cucumber and cut the skin and seeds out. they love it!  Hope I helped!

Answer 2

yes.

Answer 3

I would remove it because fishes don't eat vegetables. Vegetables do not apply to any living beings, though it say it does online, i tried to feed betta, flowerhorn, convict cichlids, guppies and black mollies, non of them liked it. Best to feed it seafood, any pellets contains fish meal, shrimp. If you eat fresh fishes bought from supermarket, they often have a bunch of eggs inside their stomach, steam it and feed to your aquarium fishes, they love it.

Answer 4

It will be fine for 12-24 hours, maybe longer. I usually leave it there overnight and remove the leftovers next day.

Many vege eating fish are nocturnal, and it's obviouly going to take a snail a few hours to find it. So if you only add it for a few minutes it's not going to get eaten.

Yes it will pollute the water if you leave it so long that it starts to rot, but thats going to take more than 12 hours.

BTW, most vege eaters will eat zuchini raw anyway. It takes longer to go mushy if you dont blanch it first.

If your fish have never seen it before they may not recognise it as food right away. So try it a few times + the overnight thing.

Ian

Answer 5

When I put a chunk of zucchini in my tank for my plecos I leave it in for a day or two.  If you've never fed it to them before, it may take the plecos a while to find it and figure out that it's good.  It doesn't ever cloud the water, it will just kind of fall apart into strings and start to float around if you leave it in too long.  If it's fresh it lasts longer and if it's frozen it falls apart faster.  I usually take it out before it does that.  Actually, I attach mine to a rock with a rubber band to make it stay on the bottom and usually the plecos will eat enough of it that it breaks away from the rubber band and the pieces that are left float up to the surface after a day and I just take those out.

Answer 6

I would take it out after 30 45 minutes and you shouldent have to change your water

Answer 7

Don't blanch it.  They like it raw.  It falls apart too fast if you cook it and makes a mess.  I cut slices then quarter them and just drop them in.  There's never anything left to remove.  Sucker fish are mostly nocturnal so you need to leave it overnight for them to find.

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