Ridiculous fish foods

[WheatToast]

What ridiculous foods have you fed or have been told to feed your marine fish/invertebrates (post below)?
I remember that the book below recommended feeding Hamburger meat:
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[IKD]

How about bananas?

TANGS love fruit!!!

A few years back I was listening to Mark with Melev’s Reef. He was describing how his fish love getting an occasional treat of banana. Since then I will occasionally toss in some small pieces of banana. My 3 tangs, Blue Hyppo, Sailfin and Yellow eat it like it’s candy! Yesterday I chopped up...

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[WheatToast]

How about bananas?

TANGS love fruit!!!

A few years back I was listening to Mark with Melev’s Reef. He was describing how his fish love getting an occasional treat of banana. Since then I will occasionally toss in some small pieces of banana. My 3 tangs, Blue Hyppo, Sailfin and Yellow eat it like it’s candy! Yesterday I chopped up...

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Interesting! I have heard they are a good source of fiber for goldfish.

 

[mattybecks]

This was few years back, and I had a new girlfriend stay over the one night, and then left her alone in my apt when I went to the gym in the morning.
When I came back, I noticed an oily film on the surface of the water.

I asked her if she had fed my fish, and she said they looked so hungry and kept asking for food whenever she went close to the tank.

So decided to treat them with Dark Chocolate and Salted Crisps. Which they appeared to love by the way.

 

[Tamberav]

I always wondered if some of these random foods could be potentially toxic. Like how grapes, chocolate, garlic etc are for dogs.

Toxic could be intestinal upset, not necessarily death.

It’s just important to remember that animals are not humans and may not be able to handle the same foods.

I used to feed my dog grapes as a kid having no idea they were toxic. She loved them! Luckily it was only a few every once and awhile. It can cause kidney failure :eek:

 

[Idech]

So decided to treat them with Dark Chocolate and Salted Crisps. Which they appeared to love by the way.

Wow, was she your girlfriend for long after that ?

 

[Paul B]

I used to feed my Moorish Idols frozen bananas. They loved them. :)

 

[mattybecks]

Wow, was she your girlfriend for long after that ?

Haha she had a good heart and loved them all. She just had zero experience and I had to show her. She always fed them proper fish food after that. They always had fat stomachs if I ever left alone with them.

 

[GHOSTLY]

I've fed live baby frog to fish

 

[Levinson]

It's not fish food but I found an interesting article about sea anemones eating ants in the wild. I wonder if anyone's tried feeding it in their tank.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/sea-anemones-eat-ants-other-oddities

 

[WheatToast]

It's not fish food but I found an interesting article about sea anemones eating ants in the wild. I wonder if anyone's tried feeding it in their tank.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/sea-anemones-eat-ants-other-oddities

Interesting read! Thanks for sharing!
This reminds me of a pretty horrific story, though:
Giant sea anemone eats a baby SEABIRD

 

[Crevalle]

I used to feed my brackish puffers live and frozen fiddler crabs, coquina clams, and sand fleas I would catch at the beach. Plus live shrimp I had leftover from fishing.

 

[HuduVudu]

Human vomit seems to be a favorite in the wild for fish.

 

[WheatToast]

I used to feed my brackish puffers live and frozen fiddler crabs, coquina clams, and sand fleas I would catch at the beach. Plus live shrimp I had leftover from fishing.

Those have got to be the most spoiled puffers I have ever heard of :)! Which was their favorite?

 

[Isopod80]

I had a customer,whose tank I used to service years ago, nuke the tank by pouring in a bottle of wine and leftover spaghetti with red sauce. He called me the next day saying his fish were dying. I went over to see what was wrong, took one look at the tank and told him to find a different service and walked out. The wine bottle was at the bottom of the tank. Drugs are bad.

 

[WheatToast]

The wine bottle was at the bottom of the tank.

Maybe he was on to something...
From the Archives: Live Bottles are reborn as Aquacultured Art by Atlantic Reef Aquaculture

 

[Isopod80]

Maybe he was on to something...
From the Archives: Live Bottles are reborn as Aquacultured Art by Atlantic Reef Aquaculture

I don't know but he was definitely ON something. He was one of those eclectic artist types. More than once when I went there it would be him and several other men and women sitting around wearing only bathrobes. The guy didn't have a sauna. I always felt like I was interrupting something.

 

[EricR]

Human vomit seems to be a favorite in the wild for fish.

I'm a newbie (current tank is only 4 months old), but I'll bite...

My chocolate chip starfish absolutely loves the "fresh" oysters that come in a jar at the grocery store. (Fresh was the funny part). He's the first invert I ever bought (and has made two tank jumps) and is still with us after buying him at PetCo about 6 months ago BUT:
...uhhh,,, yeah, don't do that -- makes your water oily and smelly, and then you just feel like you coulda come up with something "fresher".

On the vomit thing,,, just quickly:
-- I was Jr SCUBA certified at age 10 in the late '70s and on one trip:
-- my step dad literally puked through his regulator immediately after we jumped into the water >>> I'd never seen so many fish that close up (((and we weren't even into the kelp beds yet)))

 

[blaxsun]

My fingers (dang clownfish)...

 

[WheatToast]

My fingers (dang clownfish)...

Yikes! Sounds like some pretty hardcore exfoliation!
Maybe you should give these a try instead:
Fish Pedicures and Fish Spas