In the Kitchen

What 'people food' do you give to your fish? It'd be interesting to know, 'cause I really wanna spoil my fish

Right now I use pieces of various seafood (so long as it isn't hecticly glazed or battered), chicken livers, and peas.

I used to use finely grated carrot, sliced cucumber, and kidney, but I don't really have that many vegetarian fish left... the kidneys I just stopped bothering with :blink:

What do you guys use? And do you think its of great benefit to use foods other than prepared frozen and dry foods?

 

Ummmmm the seaweed that you wrap your sushi in ummmmmmmmmm cant remember the the name NORI Thats it - brilliant for most of your fish

 

I feed them a slice of cucumber once a week. The vegie fish have a go at it for a day. The Ancistrus assists at night (I think) and the snails make the rest disappear the following day.

 

What! Share my Sushi?Never.

 

i once had this circulating urban myth email sent to me about a guy whose brain was eaten away by what the email claimed were parasites from sushi, so whenever i think of sushi, i auto-think of those photos, my skin starts to crawl and then i lose interest in sushi

i'll hapily part with the seaweed stuff if i got any...

 

Lol why so it can eat way at your fishes' brains?

Sounds interesting guys, I want to try the sushi thingy now.

 

If you check out the prices of the packaged fish food that looks like NORI, smells like NORI and tastes like NORI - then check out the cost of nori in the SPAR or wherever, and you will see that human nori is half the price of fish nori - strange hey, makes you wonder if the fish food people are trying to make a huge profit - Naahhh couldn't be (Sarcasm)

 

lol, i find that most stuff the lfs's sell, that can be found in normal stores, are cheaper in the normal stores...

 

Oh no you didn't....

 

Oh yea I did !!!!!!!!!!!!! - some fresh Tuna and hey presto - Sushi

 

Nori can be bought from any chinese/asian shop cheep cheep...

 

What foods do you use Rory?

 

At the moment I only feed omega one flakes... (only have 3 fish right now) Have a ton of nori lying around though.

 

I don't like eating anything fishie cooked or raw it just tastes gross to me. but hey every one to there own I guess...... I feed my Oscars Liver and heart, not to much other wise they mess most of it but there are pleco's in my tank to keep the bottom clean as best they can any way.

 

THREE fish and you run a FISH forum... tsk tsk

 

It's actually up quite a lot, I used to have just 1 fish, and the SO had 1 fish...

 

At least it was tuna and not an oscar or pleco that died of some misterious illness....LOL

 

Have you ever tasted your fish food???? Some of the Omega food tastes like those chinese shrimp chips you buy - or so I've been told

Yeah, we use the nori, zucchinis's, cucumber, peas and I've tried butternut as well.

 

Have found zucchinis make the water go milky/murky after about 9 hours

 

If I had to take food from the kitchen for my fish my finance would kill me. Chefs are so obsessive over how food is used.