Loach Eating Vegetables

YellowFinned · Post by **YellowFinned** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:31 am

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.

Penguin · Post by **Penguin** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:52 am

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.

poeticpyro · Post by **poeticpyro** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:59 pm

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!

Mark in Vancouver · Post by **Mark in Vancouver** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:33 pm

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.

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:37 pm

Penguin, just for fun--have you seen THIS thread on the OT?

Penguin · Post by **Penguin** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:56 pm

Lol- thanks for pointing that out
(and I am a she penguin btw

)

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:48 pm

Just be warned that the OT is not for the faint of heart...(penguin or not!)

grizzlyone · Post by **grizzlyone** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:26 am

So, I'm confused...I though this topic was about vegtables eating loaches...not the other way around

worldrallynut · Post by **worldrallynut** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:48 am

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

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:38 am

I think it's just the language ...
"Loach eating vegetables" instead of "Loaches 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?

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:12 am

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

grizzlyone · Post by **grizzlyone** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:20 am

Its just me I think...I was watching "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" last night...lol

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