How do I prepare vevetables to feed to my aquarium catfish?

Answer 1

Pleco's are mainly vegetarians or omnivores, so it is important that there be a fair amount of vegetable matter in their diets, this is easilly provided with pleco tabs or spirulina (A type of blue green algae) discs. There is evidenece that for some plecos bog wood is also an important part of their diet, so be sure to have some drift wood in your tank if you plan to keep anything other than the common plecos.



My staple foods, Pleco Chips, Spirulina Discs (I have to break these up for them to fit through my feeder), and shrimp pellets mixed with flakes. I have all these available for online purchase at mikesaquatics








A neat trick a got from sue and craigs pleco site is when feeding vegetables, stick a teaspoon through the vegetable and it will sink quickly to the bottom. Vegetables eaten include Courgette, Brussel Sprouts, Silver Beet, Cabbage. I grow courgettes in the summer and all my plecos seem to like them especially the Anscistrus who like to eat away all the skin befoire starting on the middle. As allways be sure to remover any uneaten food as it will quickly foul the water. Uneaten corgette tends to float to the surface making removal easy.


Other foods taken include frozen blood worms, frozen shrimps, frozen prawns, beef or chicken hearts. When feeding protein based foods like these allways be sure and remove any excess from the tank as there is great potential to foul the water quality.





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Answer 2

The smallest Corydoras, in accordance to Dr. Baensch, is C. pygmaeus, the dwarf catfish, at 2.5 cm or a million inch. those are uncommon in spite of the indisputable fact that. extra probable seen are C. hastatus, the pygmy cory, at 3 cm or a million.2 inches. Oto catfish, Otocinclus vittatus, or sucker catfish, are small, 4 cm or a million.6 inches, yet not as minute as C. pygmaeus. Regards, David

Answer 3

I assume you are talking about vegetables? It is easiest to use frozen type ones like peas. Microwave them for a few seconds, remove skin and depending upon size of your fish, feed them whole or cut into sections.

Answer 4

You can use frozen peas, just cook them in microwave.
Cucumber and zucchini you can feed raw, just cut it into slices. Same with lettuce and cabbage, just tear off a piece. They have little suction-cup clips that you can put on the side of your tank, and clip whatever you're feeding into it.

Answer 5

Wash them, and put them in the tank (apart from peas which you should microwave for a couple of seconds and remove the hard outer covering)...;

Answer 6

just cut up the vegtibuls and then feed them

Answer 7

small pieces of peas, zuchini, and cucumbers are the best- just serve raw.