Moon's Graden

Is Squash OK for rabbits? I bought some for myself, but I don't want
to try offering it to little four-legs unless I'm sure it's OK
for him.

Jeremy

A bite won't hurt. But other treats are better.
My Clown Pleco (Sucker catfish) has eaten it for
25 years.
Rabbits get leafy greens!

Professor & His Rabbits 2

Squash? How do you prep it for the pleco?

djb

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Par-boil it.. to soften it up a bit. They usually ignore if it you put it in
fresh.. or if you forget to take it out within a day, it starts getting
mushy and *then* they will eat it but by then it will start gunking up the
tank if you're not careful. Other fish like it as well.

teeb

Dave

I use green squash.  Rinse it.  Cut off a 2"
piece.  Poke a flat hole through the meat with a
narrow knife.  link two plastic garbage bag ties
together and insert through the hole.  Attach the
ties and squash around a rock.  Drop in tank.
This lasts me 2 days.  

Green Squash is loved by all suckers.  It's the
secret to getting algae eaters to live for more
than 4 months.  Mine are all over 3 years old and
I was told they won't live that long.  All non
meet eaters need a continuos supply of food.  I
think human vegetarians must also eat more often.

I have a heavily planted 200 gallon tank, 400 lb.
of red river rock, 125 lb. of petrified wood.  A
dozen coradora, 40 tetra, 4 algae eaters, one
Giant algae eater (2 1/2"), My clown pleco (5"),
and 8 discus.

Professor  :o

I have never boiled mine.  All my suckers eat it.
Doesn't cloud the tank.  Done this for 25 years.
Was given this tip when I first got my pleco.
(same one) :) My other fish receive frozen ***
worms, and once in a while live ones. 2 of my
discus are breeding but the pleco also gets the
eggs. :(  

Professor

In my late ***s I lived with a couple from
England.  You have that same sense of humor.

Professor :)

Green squash? Do you mean acorn squash?

I'm envious of your tank! We have a 15 gal downstairs that needs a bit
of attention, it only has a few neons, 4 corys and one small pleco.
Nick has a 10 gal in his room with two goldfish.

When I was in my ***s I had several tanks and kept butterfly and
archer fish, rift lake cichlids, and my pride and joy was a 7" oscar
that I raised from 1" long.

I had a pleco for at least 4 years, too. He was about 3" when I got him
and when I moved and sold off the tanks and fish he was 6".

djb

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Dave

Zucchini!  Cheep & easy.

My first pleco grew to over afoot long.  Ate all
the plants.  I now pick my fish to work with the
plants.  The clown is a black & orange stripe
dwarf.  Wouldn't show her self for the first 10
years. LOL  Rabbits are easy.  

Professor

My goodness... There's actually a *use* for zucchini?!?!?!?!?!

I'm in a major battle with the snails right now... My Amazon Sword is
getting eaten pretty badly.

Mind you, Toby would finish it in about 45 seconds.

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Dave

Let me check on the snail thing!

Professor

ps.  Good thing rabbits don't like water.

(chop it and add it to sauce, batter it and fry it; you don't know of
uses for zucchini?)

I want to see aquarium pics!  We just have the 20-gal with 7 tiger
barbs and the cleaner fish Bosco, who sucks big-time and eats Algae
Wafers when he's not grazing on the zucchini. :-)

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Zucchini is not food. It's filler.

It's tasteless pap.

I hate it.

Every now and then I get to go to a very nice, very expensive
restaurant. Not a chain or anything, and I travel a bit so it could be
annywhere in North America.

Fancy place, nice menu, good wine list.

Entre includes "vegetable medley".

"Vegetable Medley" means "***you wouldn't cook at home, and mostly
zucchini".

Did I mention I hate zucchini?

I grow a large garden every summer. I grow in alphabetical order. I
don't go past "Y".

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I don't have anything to show off, except Goldie and Speedy who we
adopted last June when Nick's friends moved to England. The fish
suddenly started growing when we moved them from a bowl to a 10 gal
tank, and Goldie is now my snail control mechanism for the community
tank... meaning that I pick the snails out of the community tank, dump
them into the goldfish tank, and Goldie "controls" them.

djb

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