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Loach Eating Vegetables
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:31 am
by YellowFinned
Prepared as described in the loach.com web-site, micro-waved and weighed down with a stone:
Cucumbers
Loaches don’t touch them, but the Majestic Shelter did.
Carrots
Thought the carotene would add extra colour if it got in the food chain.
Nothing touched them.
Cauliflower
A reserved reception, and then after a few hours, raving loach gluttony.
Same in three tanks with various loaches.
Will have to try a few other veggies.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:52 am
by Penguin
Mine won't touch the three veggies you list there, but they love broccoli (which makes a mess as they tear it apart and I have to clean out the filter a few hours after feeding), and courgette (=zuchini) with the very middle taken out.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:59 pm
by poeticpyro
mine go nuts for bananas (watch carefully, makes water foul * do it before cleaning*) and zuccini... i tried peas and they just played with them... broccoli didn't work for mine, cucumber also works!
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:33 pm
by Mark in Vancouver
You might also try some frozen peas. If you blanch these in boiling water for just a few seconds - so they're not frozen - you can easily peel the outer skin off. Pop one in the tank and watch them go into soccer mode.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:37 pm
by shari2
Penguin, just for fun--have you seen
THIS thread on the OT?
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:56 pm
by Penguin
Lol- thanks for pointing that out
(and I am a she penguin btw
)
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:48 pm
by shari2
Just be warned that the OT is not for the faint of heart...(penguin or not!)
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:26 am
by grizzlyone
So, I'm confused...I though this topic was about vegtables eating loaches...not the other way around
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:48 am
by worldrallynut
grizzlyone wrote:So, I'm confused...I though this topic was about vegtables eating loaches...not the other way around
It's late and I thought the same thing
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:38 am
by shari2
I think it's just the language ...
"Loach eating vegetables" instead of "Loach
es eating vegetables"
didn't even occur to me that it could be the vegetables eating the loaches! You guys watch 'Little Shop of Horrors' lately?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:12 am
by Emma Turner
YellowFinned, you can view some pics of my clown loaches eating a couple of different types of fruits at these links:
Watermelon:
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=1861
Honeydew melon:
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=1211
They also really enjoy cucumber, but I think my old pics of them eating this are probably archived in the old forum.
Emma
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:20 am
by grizzlyone
Its just me I think...I was watching "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" last night...lol