Variety of goldfish food......

[Koi-lo]

Does everyone feed a large variety of GF food to their fish? What are you
feeding them and how often? I have a small basket I keep their food as it's
easy to carry from room to room. In this basket I have:

Top Fin Tropical flakes.
Wardly's Smrimp pellets.
Hikari Gold pellets.
Hikari Goldfish flakes.
Aqua Select Pacifica Plankton.
TetraFin Goldfish Crisps.
Nippon Community Chips and
Nippon Algae Galore wafers.

Not in the basket: :-)
That's in addition to frozen foods such as blood worms, glassworms etc.

Fish under a year old are fed 3 times a day if indoors (twice if outdoors).
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[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

> Does everyone feed a large variety of GF food to their
> fish? What are you
> feeding them and how often?

Do you keep them in aquaria or in pond?

In addition, I _fed_ years ago aquaria plants, green
vegetables and self-made food containing green vegetables
and in addition algae powder like spirulina and chlorella.

> Top Fin Tropical flakes.
> Wardly's Smrimp pellets.
> Hikari Gold pellets.
> Hikari Goldfish flakes.
> Aqua Select Pacifica Plankton.
> TetraFin Goldfish Crisps.
> Nippon Community Chips and
> Nippon Algae Galore wafers.

You feed variedly.

> Not in the basket: :-)
> That's in addition to frozen foods such as blood worms,
> glassworms etc.

Fine. They also like "daphnia spec." and fish eggs.

> Fish under a year old are fed 3 times a day if indoors
> (twice if outdoors)

Sounds good.

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cu
Marco

[Koi-lo]

"Marco Schwarz" > wrote in message
...
> Hi..
>
>> Does everyone feed a large variety of GF food to their
>> fish? What are you
>> feeding them and how often?
>
> Do you keep them in aquaria or in pond?

The fancy GF are in aquarium. The Shubunkins are in 150g kiddy pools
outdoors.

> In addition, I _fed_ years ago aquaria plants, green
> vegetables and self-made food containing green vegetables
> and in addition algae powder like spirulina and chlorella.

I never did make my own foods for them. I've always used commercial
products. All my tanks and outdoor pools contain natural water plants.

>> Top Fin Tropical flakes.
>> Wardly's Smrimp pellets.
>> Hikari Gold pellets.
>> Hikari Goldfish flakes.
>> Aqua Select Pacifica Plankton.
>> TetraFin Goldfish Crisps.
>> Nippon Community Chips and
>> Nippon Algae Galore wafers.

> You feed variedly.

I learned long ago they do better and grow faster on a variety of foods.

>> Not in the basket: :-)
>> That's in addition to frozen foods such as blood worms,
>> glassworms etc.

> Fine. They also like "daphnia spec." and fish eggs.

They like hard-boiled eggs as well. I raise them on that mixed with Tetra
fry powder in outdoor pools.

>> Fish under a year old are fed 3 times a day if indoors
>> (twice if outdoors)

> Sounds good.
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[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

> The fancy GF are in aquarium. The Shubunkins are in 150g
> kiddy pools outdoors.

Interesting pictures, thanks. From may to october I am used
to put several species outdoors (Macropodus opercularis,
Elassoma evergladei, Tanichthys albonubes, Heterandria
formosa, invertebrates, others). They spend summertime in
little ponds and tanks.

> All my tanks and outdoor pools contain natural water
> plants.

Fine - me, too. Outdoors and indoors.

And one day I will have space and time again for
goldfishes! :-)
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cu
Marco

[Koi-lo]

"Marco Schwarz" > wrote in message
...
> Hi..
>
>> The fancy GF are in aquarium. The Shubunkins are in 150g
>> kiddy pools outdoors.
>
> Interesting pictures, thanks. From may to october I am used
> to put several species outdoors (Macropodus opercularis,
> Elassoma evergladei, Tanichthys albonubes, Heterandria
> formosa, invertebrates, others). They spend summertime in
> little ponds and tanks.


# And I'm sure they're healthier for it. My fancies will go out for the
summers when they're a little larger. We have a real bad frog problem here.
The smaller ones squeeze through the nets on top of the pools and will eat
small goldfish. The Shubunkins can avoid them but the fancies are sitting
ducks.


>> All my tanks and outdoor pools contain natural water
>> plants.
>
> Fine - me, too. Outdoors and indoors.
>
> And one day I will have space and time again for
> goldfishes! :-)
> --
> cu
> Marco


# I love being retired. :-) There's a bit less money to go around but a
lot more free time to just enjoy life.
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[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

> # And I'm sure they're healthier for it.

Healthier and more colorful.

> My fancies will go out for the summers when
> they're a little larger. We have a real bad
> frog problem here. The smaller ones squeeze
> through the nets on top of the pools and
> will eat small goldfish.

Interesting! Here, the baby frogs are often prey of fish.
What kind of frog is it?

> I love being retired. :-)
> There's a bit less money to
> # go around but a
> lot more free time to just enjoy life.

Wise words..
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cu
Marco

[Koi-lo]

"Marco Schwarz" > wrote in message
...
> Hi..
>
>> # And I'm sure they're healthier for it.
>
> Healthier and more colorful.

$$ Yes, they have much deeper better color when kept outdoors.

>> My fancies will go out for the summers when
>> they're a little larger. We have a real bad
>> frog problem here. The smaller ones squeeze
>> through the nets on top of the pools and
>> will eat small goldfish.

> Interesting! Here, the baby frogs are often prey of fish.
> What kind of frog is it?

$$ It's mainly the bullfrogs that eat the fish. But we also have leopard
and green frogs. Also water snakes will take any fish they can get.

>> I love being retired. :-)
>> There's a bit less money to
>> # go around but a
>> lot more free time to just enjoy life.
>
> Wise words..

$$ Thanks......... :-))
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Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
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[Koi-lo]

"Marco Schwarz" > wrote in message
...
> Hi..
>
>> $$ It's mainly the bullfrogs that eat the fish.
>
> Monster frogs! :-)
>
> For three years now, I've problems with them:
>
> http://www.waschbaeren-hilfe.de/waschbaer.html
>
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I don't read that language. ;-) We have those critters here but they don't
come near houses with dogs. All but one of our neighbors have dogs and we
usually have several, so the raccoons and other wild animals stay away.

We had to net everything because of the predators that ignore dogs. Without
nets it wouldn't be possible to keep fish outdoors at all.
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Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy
~~~ }<((((o> ~~~ }<{{{{o> ~~~ }<(((((o>

[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

> $$ It's mainly the bullfrogs that eat the fish.

Monster frogs! :-)

For three years now, I've problems with them:

http://www.waschbaeren-hilfe.de/waschbaer.html

--
cu
Marco

[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

>> http://www.waschbaeren-hilfe.de/waschbaer.html
> I don't read that language. ;-)
> so the raccoons and
> other wild animals stay away.

I didn't know their english name! :-)

> We had to net everything because of the predators that
> ignore dogs. Without nets it wouldn't be possible to keep
> fish outdoors at all.

I use nets, too.

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cu
Marco

[Roy]

Who cares what you do carol.....




On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:07:09 -0600, "Koi-lo" >
wrote:
>><>Does everyone feed a large variety of GF food to their fish? What are you
>><>feeding them and how often? I have a small basket I keep their food as it's
>><>easy to carry from room to room. In this basket I have:
>><>
>><>Top Fin Tropical flakes.
>><>Wardly's Smrimp pellets.
>><>Hikari Gold pellets.
>><>Hikari Goldfish flakes.
>><>Aqua Select Pacifica Plankton.
>><>TetraFin Goldfish Crisps.
>><>Nippon Community Chips and
>><>Nippon Algae Galore wafers.
>><>
>><>Not in the basket: :-)
>><>That's in addition to frozen foods such as blood worms, glassworms etc.
>><>
>><>Fish under a year old are fed 3 times a day if indoors (twice if outdoors).

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