• Surgeons, angels, butterflies, foxes, etc..... and bread.

  • Michelle5859

Considering the dietary habits of these fish, I decided to conduct an experiment... This was last year. I took a piece of white bread, rolled it into balls about 3-4 mm in diameter, and then also offered them just pieces, daring to present this to marine fish. The effect was beyond my expectations. The lovers of white bread go crazy when they see it through the aquarium glass, and now I’m slowly treating them to it. Sometimes I also offer dark bread, which they respect as well. By the way, the water doesn’t get cloudy, but I’m hesitant to give too much. According to my observations, all the fish listed below eat bread without exception: three species of pomacentrids, two species of wrasses, two species of angelfish, four species of surgeonfish, one species of butterflyfish (Chaetodon), and one species of triggerfish. Even the shrimp, specifically the elegant shrimp, won’t refuse bread. This is just to mention "unusual foods." Well, the fact that angelfish and butterflyfish eagerly grab stray insects is probably not new, but what other "unusual" foods have people offered to fish, and what was the effect?

Breanna9982

Nothing surprising. All Russian tourists feed the fish in the Red Sea with buns, and there is a spectacle happening, with one cubic meter of fish worth a million bucks. True, not all fish eat bread, but surprisingly, fish like Parrotfish, which bite the reefs with their teeth, simply ignore the bread and live under the pontoons, waiting for scraps while sneezing at the corals.

Robin

That's why I decided to organize such an event. By the way, weren't the surgeons given boiled corn? They love it too...

Martin3206

What is the reason for the interest in "non-native feeds"? And what, for example, prevents feeding with "native" feeds?

Julie4738

Sometimes it happens that there aren't enough macrophytes for the surgeons, and their appetite for macrophytes is insatiable. Meanwhile, I have no lower plants in my fish tank. So I have to resort to unconventional plant feeds. By the way, blanched lettuce and cabbage are also adored by the surgeons...

Jessica

So this is a more acceptable "substitute" for the lack of natural growths than experimenting with bread.

Ryan

I don't really conduct them... I just feed them with plant-based food, and that's it. I haven't observed any harm from bread, quite the opposite—angels, butterflies, and surgeons have turned into huge, beautiful fish, and they are already 5-6 years old since I got them. I've been giving them bread for over a year now. As they say, man does not live by bread alone; it's just a supplementary feed, while the main ones are: gammarus, artemia, shrimp, mollusks, as well as dry, freeze-dried food for marine fish. Sometimes I finely chop some Azov bullhead, and they have never refused it either, especially the triggerfish.

Katie3017

Maybe it's better to use not white bread, but "rough" bread made from bran or three or four grains?

Leslie

500% Offtopic The truth is that they are currently chasing people off the beaches for this; as soon as they see it, the beach manager runs over and drives everyone away. The reason: small fish - big fish - shark (at least that's what they say). Once, they closed the beaches while I was there, claiming there were a lot of jellyfish, but there were just as many the next day.

Maria

I haven't seen jellyfish as beautiful as in your photo, but there were small ones like the Black Sea jellyfish, and some fish would tear them to shreds. It would be great to introduce some fish in the Black Sea that would eat jellyfish...

Melinda2740

That's right, Seryozha, and I've tried it, they eat...

Amber6362

There is no spinach in the market, it's not the season, I couldn't try it, but I gave cilantro instead, the surgeons eat very well.

Debra8438

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