Beef Heart.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:59 pm

I was thinking of feeding my zebras beef heart occasionally, just to vary their diet a bit. I've seen blister packs of gamma radiated discus mix at my LFS, would this contain beef heart? Is it safe to feed beef heart to zebras? I wouldn't want to make a very costly mistake so I thought I would ask first.

Tristan · Post by **Tristan** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:34 pm

I have seen other plecs that i own eating beefheart Adam, so i presume it should be ok. Usually it was overspill from discus feeding but my plecs are fine on it.

jerms55555 · Post by **jerms55555** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:39 pm

My ram cichlids love beef heart and since one of my tanks house two zebras ( i think its a pair, I have to get pictures up in here so you guys could tell me) I feed it too them but i noticed that I see left overs in the caves and other places that my rams can't get to. That scared me and got me to think that my zebras werent eating it and I didn't want to leave left overs in the tank.
So I stopped feeding them beefheart. But you never know, your zebras could like it. I know it won't kill them since i know mine had to taste it once..lol

Jeremy

McEve · Post by **McEve** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:56 am

I understand Discus and some other cichlids has a different digestive system from catfish, and have seen reports that although catfish will eat beef heart, they're not able to digest it properly. So it won't kill them, but apparently it won't do them much good either.

I might be wrong about this though.