richiep
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A thread was started yesterday regarding holding zucchini down with a fork, my post there was, theres no need if prepared before hand and the topic kicked off, so I decided to do some tests and the first was to copy one of our members to see it it would work for me, I'll post results plus add information and photos
This thread is made up with shrimp at the front but none the less will help those with fish,
First off when it comes to feeding shrimp vegetables they must be prepared for a few reasons
1st anything they eat must be soft enough for them to start eating, shrimp have pincers on certain legs to pull food apart its then passed to the inner smaller pincers where it can be pulled apart further to be eaten, putting raw veg like zucchini, kale, spinach, broccoli stem, is just a waste of time as I'll prove in my first batch of photos,
About 24hrs ago I diced some zucchini and dropped it in a cup with some boiling water after 16minutes 1 piece sank but I had to replenish with hot water, it took 23 minutes for all to sink and two changes of hot water, photo 1
Everyone here is quite aware of what my shrimp do to veg when added and as usual they swarmed around the food but it was short lived and 24hrs later in photo 2 you can see they stopped trying to eat it they could not pick the food off because its too tuff photo three I've taken the zucchini out and as you can see a complete waste of time my shrimp normally get rid of this much in 4hrs.
Now then many of you won't know but you can research the Fact part if you want.
zucchini cooked for 8minutes will be soft enough for you critters to completely devour like mine do within hours, make sure you de seed zucchini before putting in the tank as they don't eat the seeds and they will only pollute the tank
(Fact) cooked zucchini offers simular nutrition raw, zucchini looses a little vitamin A but vitamin C is slightly increased when cooked, so not only do we loose very little nutritional values but you shrimp, soft mouthed fish, pleco that have that rasp for hard food will find it easier to eat and it will digest easier,
Your shrimp will pull the fine particles off and not waste energy because they don't have a hammer and chisel on them
Next let's go to spinach a little fragile leaf to you me and many fish but for shrimp it's a leather jacket with hidden problems of its own if eaten raw. Spinach holds Oxalic acid which hinders the calcium shrimp need but as soon as the spinach is put in boiling water it renders the Oxalic acid inert and by boiling for 30 seconds it becomes soft enough for the shrimp to rip apart
Next kale this is one of the best if you can get them to eat it but again it's so tuff it must be processed they will not eat this raw and its bitter, by cooking this for 11 minutes it dose loose quite a bit of its values but even boild you will get goodness into anything that eats it,
Nettles you can class the same as spinach
Broccoli I feed a lot but again it must be prepared or they cannot break into it, cook for 20min so when you since the stem its soft inside
One other very important factor with all vegetables you can loose some goodness if over cooked but by steaming it's found you loose very little of anything but you need to test this out as to how long you steam things before they are soft enough to eat
Even after boiling or steaming I use wooden skewer with led on the bottom to hold it down,
The times I've stated are what I've found out by testing food myself and nowhere else.
Do this and your shrimp will feed like this
mattgirl AcornTheBetta
This thread is made up with shrimp at the front but none the less will help those with fish,
First off when it comes to feeding shrimp vegetables they must be prepared for a few reasons
1st anything they eat must be soft enough for them to start eating, shrimp have pincers on certain legs to pull food apart its then passed to the inner smaller pincers where it can be pulled apart further to be eaten, putting raw veg like zucchini, kale, spinach, broccoli stem, is just a waste of time as I'll prove in my first batch of photos,
About 24hrs ago I diced some zucchini and dropped it in a cup with some boiling water after 16minutes 1 piece sank but I had to replenish with hot water, it took 23 minutes for all to sink and two changes of hot water, photo 1
Everyone here is quite aware of what my shrimp do to veg when added and as usual they swarmed around the food but it was short lived and 24hrs later in photo 2 you can see they stopped trying to eat it they could not pick the food off because its too tuff photo three I've taken the zucchini out and as you can see a complete waste of time my shrimp normally get rid of this much in 4hrs.
Now then many of you won't know but you can research the Fact part if you want.
zucchini cooked for 8minutes will be soft enough for you critters to completely devour like mine do within hours, make sure you de seed zucchini before putting in the tank as they don't eat the seeds and they will only pollute the tank
(Fact) cooked zucchini offers simular nutrition raw, zucchini looses a little vitamin A but vitamin C is slightly increased when cooked, so not only do we loose very little nutritional values but you shrimp, soft mouthed fish, pleco that have that rasp for hard food will find it easier to eat and it will digest easier,
Your shrimp will pull the fine particles off and not waste energy because they don't have a hammer and chisel on them
Next let's go to spinach a little fragile leaf to you me and many fish but for shrimp it's a leather jacket with hidden problems of its own if eaten raw. Spinach holds Oxalic acid which hinders the calcium shrimp need but as soon as the spinach is put in boiling water it renders the Oxalic acid inert and by boiling for 30 seconds it becomes soft enough for the shrimp to rip apart
Next kale this is one of the best if you can get them to eat it but again it's so tuff it must be processed they will not eat this raw and its bitter, by cooking this for 11 minutes it dose loose quite a bit of its values but even boild you will get goodness into anything that eats it,
Nettles you can class the same as spinach
Broccoli I feed a lot but again it must be prepared or they cannot break into it, cook for 20min so when you since the stem its soft inside
One other very important factor with all vegetables you can loose some goodness if over cooked but by steaming it's found you loose very little of anything but you need to test this out as to how long you steam things before they are soft enough to eat
Even after boiling or steaming I use wooden skewer with led on the bottom to hold it down,
The times I've stated are what I've found out by testing food myself and nowhere else.
Do this and your shrimp will feed like this
mattgirl AcornTheBetta
