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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Feeding Chinese Algea Eaters
Keywords: spinach lettuce vegetable foods
Message-ID: <2269@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 88 23:12:17 GMT
References: <399c04a8.c998@apollo.uucp> <2088@cognos.UUCP> <21755@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <21755@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>In article <2088@cognos.UUCP>, halo@cognos (Hal O'Connell) writes:
>>	        Another possibility is lettuce, or boiled spinach,
>> but you will probably have infusoria "flowerings", or other problems.
>> I wouldn't recommend it.
>
>How does one feed lettuce and other leaves to fish?  Boiled, scalded, raw?
>Put in whole, in large chunks, little chunks, or shredded into little
>flake-size pieces (which are impossible to recover if uneaten...)?  Floated
>on top or made to sink to the bottom?

Weight the lettuce with a rock.  Remove promptly as it will foul the water
in short order.

Fresh is best.

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