sweet potato

[MidnitePLaytime]

gday peoples, I have some pepps and i have always fed them wafers,cucumbers and zuc's but i have just bought some sweet potato and i wanted to give them to my pepps.
How do you feed them to plecs? do i boil them? or can i just put them into the tank like i do with cucumbers n zuc's?
Also does sweet potato have any nutritional value to them?
I also have some bloodworms for them also hoping they may breed for me:drool::drool:
Thanks in advance
Mick

 

[D-MAC]

Hi Mick
I just cut a slice of about 5mm for them and feed it raw but I find that bn's struggle with it a bit so you could try giving it a bit of a soften in boiling water first...It has much more nutritional value than cucumber which has next to none...I would not feed them to much bloodworm, a treat now and again is fine tho.

 

[MidnitePLaytime]

Thanks for the quick reply!! I'll give raw a go first then maybe try to soften it with boiling it. I was told a bloodworm treat once a week will help condition the girls for breeding? Am I wrong? Thanks again

 

[Jimmy]

:thumbup: 2nd that, sweet potato also has the advantage that it does not break down as quickly as cucumbers and zuc's, useful if your as forgetful as me :whistle:.

 

[MidnitePLaytime]

Haha that's good to know Jimmy as I'm also forgetful haha

 

[ziggee]

Hi Mick
I just cut a slice of about 5mm for them and feed it raw but I find that bn's struggle with it a bit so you could try giving it a bit of a soften in boiling water first...It has much more nutritional value than cucumber which has next to none...I would not feed them to much bloodworm, a treat now and again is fine tho.

Nice to know about the Sweet potato for the BN's, I shall give it a try. Any other vegies that are good??

 

[MidnitePLaytime]

The veggie list is a great source of foods to try mate

 

[Irene0100]

peas with skin removed are good, they love them
I feed sweet potato raw but leave in tank for a couple of days - they often eat it on the second day.

 

[D-MAC]

Nice to know about the Sweet potato for the BN's, I shall give it a try. Any other vegies that are good??

I also feed sweet peppers...They will eat all the flesh until all that's left is the skin

 

[MidnitePLaytime]

I'm gonna try that d-Mac

 

[MidnitePLaytime]

I just peeled the sweet potato and put it into the pepps tanks, hopefully they take To it and like it..

 

[zeebo]

I also feed sweet peppers...They will eat all the flesh until all that's left is the skin

:yes: sweet green and red peppers, also, just tried pear and cantalope (orange) melon, my L128's and bn loved it !

 

[Doodles]

Nice to know about the Sweet potato for the BN's, I shall give it a try. Any other vegies that are good??

The veggies in the starter list are pretty much what most plecs will happily eat from the offset. As they become used to veggies then adding others on the rest of the list is a good idea to give them variety.

http://www.plecoplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49