M

After reading several posts about cucumbers, I decided to try it. I bought an English (seedless) cucumber. Gave it a good scrub and attached did a quick blanching to soften and then clipped it to the tank. It was in for about 28 hours. The oto and glo-fish did come and nibble, but when I checked on it it had this murky, slime floating on and around it. Is that normal? I read that it was a pain to clean, but it also turned by water a little cloudy. I went ahead and did a water change to hopefully rid the cucumber remnants and lessen the cloudiness---but is the slime and cloudiness normal?

Thanks,

-M

Chief_waterchanger

Yes, that is normal for having just had cucumber in the water. (I use Zucchini just because it makes a little less slime, from my experiences.)

Fish are like humans in that each individual fish has its own personalized list of likes and dislikes when it comes to food. I would suggest trying zucchini or squash. I assume you did weigh down the slice of cucumber, so that it laid on the bottom?

And don't worry about the seeds in cucumbers, zucchini, squash, etc. The fish will probably eat them too, if they are interested in the item as a whole.

Good luck.

Butterfly

Really doesn't need to be in there anymore than over night. It may take a couple of tries before they figure out that it's food.
Carol

M

THANK YOU!

-M

armadillo

Funny, zucchini is more messy for me.

I'd say make sure you slice a huuuuge slice so that the fish see this really big, obvious thing to try.

COBettaCouple

laure-anne - you're supposed to give it to your fish, not eat it yourself!

Butterfly

why not it's yummy
Carol

COBettaCouple

the poor fish will starve!

armadillo

OMG, the other day, I was looking for something to munch on but felt a bit silly opening a bag of crisps (potato chips for US?) by myself so I figured I'll just dice this nice zucchini, and dip it in soy sauce or something. I must tell you it was actually quite yummy but gave me some ... problems!

COBettaCouple

i think i'll leave the zucchini for the bottom feeders then!

armadillo

Well definitely the uncooked ones.

Butterfly

I love squash of all kinds grated up in a salad. Pretty too
Carol

COBettaCouple

Squash isn't for salads, it's a game some people play!

Butterfly

Well you can play with it if you want to but I prefer to eat it
Carol

COBettaCouple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(sport) - i'm not eating it!