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THE POND-THE FRESHWATER PLACE => Plecos => Topic started by: Mugwump on October 28, 2014, 08:57:42 AM

Title: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: Mugwump on October 28, 2014, 08:57:42 AM
..all the Plecos got zucchini this morning....pigs...I need to pick up some green beans and baby carrots...
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: Ron Sower on October 28, 2014, 01:05:38 PM
May I come be one of your plecos? Sounds like great veggies at your house!
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: Mugwump on October 28, 2014, 01:51:25 PM
Quote from: Ron Sower on October 28, 2014, 01:05:38 PM
May I come be one of your plecos? Sounds like great veggies at your house!


..they love their veggies... ;D
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: BallAquatics on October 28, 2014, 02:32:43 PM
You do anything special with your carrots Jon?

Dennis
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: LizStreithorst on October 28, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Yeah, I'd have thought that carrots would be too hard for them.  Odysseus and his faithful crew finished up their zucchini this morning and are working on Algae pellets now.
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: Mugwump on October 28, 2014, 02:50:06 PM
Quote from: BallAquatics on October 28, 2014, 02:32:43 PM
You do anything special with your carrots Jon?

Dennis

you can blanch them...but ysually I just wash em, and toss em...same with zucchini..rinse/slice/rubber band to a flat rock and put em in....slurp....
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: Ron Sower on October 28, 2014, 03:27:51 PM
Quote from: Mugwump on October 28, 2014, 02:50:06 PM
Quote from: BallAquatics on October 28, 2014, 02:32:43 PM
You do anything special with your carrots Jon?

Dennis

you can blanch them...but ysually I just wash em, and toss em...same with zucchini..rinse/slice/rubber band to a flat rock and put em in....slurp....

A person I bought some plecos from in the past used a small cocktail fork to sink the zukes. Just stick it in the side of the zuke slice and drop it in the tank.
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: Mugwump on October 28, 2014, 03:32:27 PM
Quote from: Ron Sower on October 28, 2014, 03:27:51 PM
Quote from: Mugwump on October 28, 2014, 02:50:06 PM
Quote from: BallAquatics on October 28, 2014, 02:32:43 PM
You do anything special with your carrots Jon?

Dennis

you can blanch them...but ysually I just wash em, and toss em...same with zucchini..rinse/slice/rubber band to a flat rock and put em in....slurp....

A person I bought some plecos from in the past used a small cocktail fork to sink the zukes. Just stick it in the side of the zuke slice and drop it in the tank.

Yep, and I think Aron made some neat little replashy holders that would work too..
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: wsantia1 on October 28, 2014, 03:36:45 PM
I bought a bunch of vegetable holders a while back for cheap that have been working out great.  They suction onto the glass and cost me about a buck apiece.  Had them for quite awhile now. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Ta da....zucchini day !!!
Post by: Ron Sower on October 28, 2014, 03:42:48 PM
I also like to take a slice of zuke, turn the slice up on edge, and run a peice of the lead wrap bunch plant anchors through the cross-section and drop it in the tank. Most of the time it keeps the slice standing up on edge and it's great for watching the plecos work at it!
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Post by: LizStreithorst on October 28, 2014, 04:26:30 PM
I blanch them for a minute and they fall to the bottom on their own.  I don't know if that will work with carrots.