Questions about feeding vegetables

I've seen some information about feeding vegetables, and I have fed small amounts of boiled zucchinI a couple times. but I wondered if there's more comprehensive information about the subject. A few of my questions are:

1. What types are okay other than squash?
2. Any fruit?
3. Will fish consume too much of these foods, like some will with commercial food?
4. Is it okay to feed vegetables regularly, or should it be an occasional thing?

I'd appreciate answers to some or all of these questions, or even just a link to more information.

 

My guess would be that fish that eat seaweed would be more accepting of vegetables. I would not feed vegetables to carniverous fish. Also sugar doesn't appear in a fish’s diet as far as I'm aware. In fact I think sugar can be quite toxic to fish. I would never feed fruit to a fish.

 

This article feels that adding sugar to the tank could cause an algae bloom and any fruit used is to be done with care...
https://aquaticworldinfo.com/feeding-vegetables-to-aquarium-fish/

 

I've seen some information about feeding vegetables, and I have fed small amounts of boiled zucchinI a couple times. but I wondered if there's more comprehensive information about the subject. A few of my questions are:

1. What types are okay other than squash?
2. Any fruit?
3. Will fish consume too much of these foods, like some will with commercial food?
4. Is it okay to feed vegetables regularly, or should it be an occasional thing?

I'd appreciate answers to some or all of these questions, or even just a link to more information.

So far I have feed my fish frozen peas. Thawed and the skin removed. The mollies love them. I’ve also read that peas are a good laxative for them. I only do peas once a week.

 

Squash, pumpkin, broccoli, zucchini, cucumber, spinach, kale, carrots, green beans, peas all good stuff depending on the stock you keep. Snails, shrimp and many sucker type bottom fish love the stuff. Many other fish will nibble and a lot will ignore it. Blanch the veggie place in the tank for a couple hours and remove or over night removing first thing in the morning if it's for more nocturnal fish.

Fruit should be avoided for the most part due to sugar and bacterial blooms. If you want to try fruit stick to hard fruits such as apples and pears that won't disintegrate in the water, don't leave it for more than a couple hours at all. Be aware that very very few fish actually get fruit in the wild and those that do get extremely minimal amounts and its generally wholly swallowed berries and remains entirely unnecessary in a balanced diet.

 

I do frozen kale for my silver dollars. Take out a pinch from freezer ( say 5-6 chopped leaves). use tap water & roll the leaves in my hand until normal temp. It's a tight round ball & then drop into tank. The SDF love it. The freezing helps break down the cells structure & easy storage.

I have tried squash for my feathefin catfish, but it's hit or miss if the catfish will eat it.

They all eat de-shelled peas, green beans and Italian greens (no pea pods with either green beans)

with veggies, be ready to use a net to clean up anything left behind.

I leave the veggies in for about 12 hours and remove any left overs. SDF eat immediately, but catfish is picker.

 

I can only speak from MY experience so:
1-ZucchinI
2-Broccoli
3-French cut canned green beans
4-Watermelon (mostly rind with just a bit of flesh) They LOVE it!
All veg should be blanched or parboiled, depending on hardness.
5-Snello-(containing the boiled peels of aforementioned veg plus baby carrots, garlic whatever's in fridge)
The Snello didn't have any fish food or protein in last batch and it set better than when I added fish food. Just contained veg, organic spirulina piwder, organic spinach powder, mineral powder, calcium.
6-Generic Tums tabs liberally.
7-Seaweed sheets--it's like catnip for snails, but...it's messy AF. Use a chip clip and take it out after they've eaten most of it.
8-Cucumbers (peeled, but limited success)
Peas never worked for me and my water babies. Regular green beans didn't either, just the French cut.
Hope that helps.