Trees and ponds

Mine is full sun, pressurised filter, crystal clear.

I rarely feed the fish and have lots of plants.


Mike Patterson

They must be starving!

(HA HA Budys Here) wrote:

I rarely feed the fish and have lots of plants.

They must be starving!

They don't starve, they just grow to meet their food supply. If fed,
like people they never stop growing. If left to natural food sources,
the stop growing when the are starting to overeat the area. That is the
reason that Koi and Goldfish have such a wide variation in mature size.

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On 23 Jul 2004 03:32:39 GMT, (HA HA Budys Here)
wrote:

Mine is full sun, pressurised filter, crystal clear.

I rarely feed the fish and have lots of plants.


Mike Patterson

They must be starving!

Nah, they have a large menu and they're fat & lively.

They eat algae, parrot's feather, hornwort, roots of water hyacinth,
water lettuce, watercress, pineapple mint, and stray roots of the
lilies and pickerels.

For protein there's mosquito larvae, frog & toad eggs, unfortunate
clumsy insects, tadpoles, and baby fish.

I feed 'em a handful of fish food about once a week just on the off
chance that some vitamin or other is locally deficient and to help
keem 'em relatively tame.

That being said, it's also true that when I have to wade in to
move/divide plants, there is a young one I call "killer" because he
comes straight over to me and nibbles on my legs the whole time I'm in
the water. I try to wave him away, but he is fearless and determined
to eat me alive. :-)


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(HA HA Budys Here) wrote:

I rarely feed the fish and have lots of plants.

They must be starving!

They don't starve, they just grow to meet their food supply. If fed,
like people they never stop growing. If left to natural food sources,
the stop growing when the are starting to overeat the area. That is the
reason that Koi and Goldfish have such a wide variation in mature size.

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On 23 Jul 2004 03:32:39 GMT, (HA HA Budys Here)
wrote:

Mine is full sun, pressurised filter, crystal clear.

I rarely feed the fish and have lots of plants.


Mike Patterson

They must be starving!

Nah, they have a large menu and they're fat & lively.

They eat algae, parrot's feather, hornwort, roots of water hyacinth,
water lettuce, watercress, pineapple mint, and stray roots of the
lilies and pickerels.

For protein there's mosquito larvae, frog & toad eggs, unfortunate
clumsy insects, tadpoles, and baby fish.

I feed 'em a handful of fish food about once a week just on the off
chance that some vitamin or other is locally deficient and to help
keem 'em relatively tame.

That being said, it's also true that when I have to wade in to
move/divide plants, there is a young one I call "killer" because he
comes straight over to me and nibbles on my legs the whole time I'm in
the water. I try to wave him away, but he is fearless and determined
to eat me alive. :-)


Mike Patterson
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