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One of the things I've been amazed at since finding Planet is the variety of household foods, particularly vegetables, that people are feeding their fish. I was just cleaning some baby sweetcorn for dinner and thought 'I bet the fish would love nibbling these'. Has anyone tried them?

I will put almost ANY human food in a fishtank to try it out. I will stop at sweets, meat and stuff that won't keep it's shape in water (e.g. powders, liquids, greasy stuff), but anything else is game. I've fed baby corn to my bristlenoses and such - I don't think they LOVED it, but they would eat it. Of course, each fish is individual, so your experience may be different.

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Mats

I would be questionable about the food quality of corn. I happen to remember from an animal nutrition class in college that corn is a very high protein food, but all tied up in an unusual protein called zein. Unless a critter happens to have the right intestinal bacteria to break it down, aka a rumen, practically all of it is going to go to waste. I'm trying to avoid using the same crude joke the professor used, but a quick look in the bowl a couple days after eating corn should be proof enough to explain what is being said.

Larry Vires

I have used maize (the hard animal-food corn) for carpfishing and they don't seem to be able to digest it. Corn (peoples food) seems to bo a little better, but still a lot of it just runs straight through.

I've tried fishing with sweetcorn, but don't favour it because one season I caught nearly as many wildfowl as fish on it- I'm not fond of trying to unhook a stressed, flapping moorhen or mallard whilst trying not to let any damage befall them!

kim m wrote:I have used maize (the hard animal-food corn) for carpfishing and they don't seem to be able to digest it. Corn (peoples food) seems to bo a little better, but still a lot of it just runs straight through.

Kim
You do soak and then cook the maize before use dont you? If not you should as the maize will swell once inside the carp and maybe kill it

Thanks everyone. Think I'll try a bit tonight and see how I get on.

Not a popular choice on the menu. Untouched after two days of trying.

RIPbiglad wrote:

kim m wrote:I have used maize (the hard animal-food corn) for carpfishing and they don't seem to be able to digest it. Corn (peoples food) seems to bo a little better, but still a lot of it just runs straight through.

Kim
You do soak and then cook the maize before use dont you? If not you should as the maize will swell once inside the carp and maybe kill it

I don't cook it, but store it for weeks covered in water with sugar...weel soaked and beginning to ferment, the carp love it.
I am well aware not to fish with the dry maize ;)