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From: whitling@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Donna Whitlinger)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Feeding Leaves to Fish (was Re: Feeding Chinese Algea Eaters)
Summary: magnets make spinach plant!
Keywords: spinach lettuce vegetable foods
Message-ID: <355@galaxy>
Date: 25 Jan 88 17:30:09 GMT
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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:
>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?
>

This has worked for us.  Get a set of those magnets which you're supposed
to use to clean algae off the side of your tank (I suppose any magnets
would do).  Anchor a piece of lettuce or whatever between the two magnets
and place on the bottom of the tank.  Viola! Instant lettuce plant.  When
the fish have eaten enough, remove the magnets & remaining lettuce.

Donna Whitlinger
Rutgers University
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