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What fruits and vegetables can I feed my fish?

I have a Bala shark, 2 albino tiger barbs and 2 normal, and a Tinfoil barb and two rosy barbs and I want to feed them fruits and vegetables but I don't know whats ok and whats not, please help!

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1. Pieces of banana, cucumber, zucchini, blanched lettuce and spinach, orange slices, grapes (cut in half), and pretty much any other fruit or vegetable that isn't super sugary should be fine. Also, All the fish you have are schooling fish, so you should have at least 5 of each species, which would require a 6+ foot long tank, probably close to 200 gallons. The Balas and Tinfoils will reach about 14 inches and are VERY hyperactive.
2. For the barbs Fresh spinach, zucchini, peas and lettuce. Live blood worms, glass worms, brine shrimp and tubifex worms. Frozen vegetable diet, daphnia, plankton, beef heart, brine shrimp, glass worms and blood worms. Flake and freeze dried foods also accepted. For the bala shark This fish will accept a wide variety of small live foods, such as bloodworms, Tubifex worms, Daphnia, mosquito larvae and brine shrimp. Supplement their diets with fresh, parboiled vegetables, such as romaine lettuce, zucchini and peas. They will also accept flake and freeze-dried foods on occasion.
3. banana, cucumber, zucchini, cut lettuce, spinach, orange slices, and grapes when cut in half
4. for plecos and other bottom feeders (like your shark) can eat anchored cucumber (just tie it to a rock) can be fed as a treat 2 days per week start off small