A interview nearly feed fish vegetables?
or those of you who cook veg for there fish to eat how do u go roughly doing this wot veg do u cook what to you do when it cooked like mash it or leave it unharmed can someone explain
This depends on the fish. You aren't going to nurture 1" cubes of zuchini to guppies so in terms of the size of the vegetables either evacuate the vegetable large so the fish can pick at them or mash them in your fingers or cut them small to get together the appropriate size for the fish you have.
In terms of what vegetable and how I prepare them:
Zuchini: Cut it into quarters lengthwise, blanch within boiling water and place in the aquarium. Most fish will pick at this. For larger fish I cut all but the skin into appropriate sizes and they devour them whole and love it.
Peas: Buy frozen, put a handful into warm water for a few second then pinch the shell with your thumb nail and squeeze actual pea out. For small fish a short time ago squeeze this between your fingers as you put this into the aquarium. All fish love peas.
Leafy greens: Romain, Spinich, Seaweed, Kale, etc. different fish have different ideas about these vegetables. Some fish I own love these and some won't touch them. Boil water and place the leafy vegetable in the water to blanch, not cook basically blanch and put in aquarium. I hand the leaf over the top so it's pinched by the top of the aquarium and the fish that approaching it will come and eat it and this way it doesn't go to the filter and it's assured to remove in an hour of so.
Spirulina: This is the best dried vegetable you can feed your fish. It comes in pellet and flakes though read the ingredients because everyone like to say it's spirulina when it only have a small percentage in it. Don't be fooled.
I make my own frozen food mixes for the different fish and use all of the above and of late put everything through a meat grinder twice with the animal products in the proper amount for the type of fish I'm feeding. When I do it that method I don't cook any of the foods though I know others that cook everything. If it's ground small enough to eat raw I reckon it's better for them.
If you use of do any of the above your fish's color, life and vitality will noticable impove. A lot of vegetables are lost in the cooking process used for flakes and pellet and the fish don't get the proper nutrician. Try some of the above and you will be very happy beside the results. Don't forget the same attitude with animal products does wonders as well. Shrimp, non-oily fish of the contrasting water environment, squid, beef heart, daphnia, BABY brine shrimp (not adult), cyclops, mosquito larvae, glass worms, earthworms from a no pesticide garden indistinguishable is true of other insects if no pesticides are used in the area, etc.
I set aside the odd bit of lettuce (not iceberg), courgette and cucumber to my shrimps and spixi apple snail occasionally. My method is to take a small leaf or small slice, pop it contained by a mug, boil the kettle, pour the boiling water over it, leave it for a few minutes, then use reservoir water to cool it back down again, then sink it surrounded by the tank (it'll float so you'll need to pin it down).
This is kind of similar to blanching vegetables, just my own haphazard lack-of-cooking-skills way of doing it, it will verbs the vegetable and boil off any nasties too. Make sure the vegetable of choice is washed beforehand.
Answers: I feed my fish cooked broccoli, mostly my Goldfish, but my guppies like it too. Small enough pieces that can fit contained by their mouths. I also feed my fish the occasional cooked shrimp, as a treat, once a month. You can experiment with all kind of vegetables, like green peppers, and lettuce, and spinach, even some carrots, but since respectively fish is different, it is possible that only one of them will like certain vegetables.
