Sortof poll question: does your zebra eat veggies?

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Do your zebras eat their veggies?

They love them and are probably vegan treehuggers
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mostly they will eat like pigs and are not choosey
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I have heard of such a thing and seen it with my own eyes (and there was aliens feeding it to them)
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INXS has a better chance at scoring with Uma Thurman then them touching any veggies (note should Uma show up - I will happily donate my zebras..to you guys)
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40%
 
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INXS
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Sortof poll question: does your zebra eat veggies?

Post by INXS »

OK - I have checked out several descriptions and such about zebras and other plecos.

Most of my plecos thrive on a mix of food with zucchini being a pretty big part but hypancistrus species (zebras included) do not want veggies.

I do include spirulina in the diet and have tried veggies but to no avail.

So, my question is : are my zebras on some tweeked adkins type of diet and different because they won't eat veggies or have you guys experienced the same thing?
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Post by Rob »

I feed my fish ona varied diet including frozen bloodworm, frozen cockles, tetra prima and....................corgette, (zuchinni).

The corgette is only fed around once a week, and they love it.
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Post by Jenny »

I've tried and tried to get mine to eat cucumber and they don't touch it - havn't tried putting garlic on it yet, so will give that a try because I feel veggies must be good for them
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Post by Plastic Mac »

I have one which will happily have a quiet munch however the others won't touch veggies with a barge pole. Personally I don't blame them I hate veggies too.
However I would prefer if they all ate some...as like Seahorse I can't help but think it must be good for them and a strict meat diet doesn't cover everything they need.
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