Beginners question. How much is too much (food)?

The fish will attempt to inform you that they are starving. Don't believe them,
they are con artists!

This is an excellent site
http://puregold.aquaria.net/pg/home.html
click on 'care of goldfish' and there is a link there on 'how much food'.


kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

They are little con-artists for sure! I have about 30 fish in a
300-gal. pond. Everytime I walk by the pond, they come up to see
what's going on, and if I don't feed them, they just go on about
whatever goldfish business they were doing. I usually feed them once
(sometimes twice) a day just so I can play with them. I don't give
them any more food than what they can eat in about 5 min. There's
enough natural food for them that I really don't need to feed them at
all.
Gary

"Ka30P" wrote in message
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The fish will attempt to inform you that they are starving. Don't believe
them,
they are con artists!

Mine give an excellent impression of being absolutely ravenous. Clearly
I'llhave to be a little less trusting in future. ;-)

Tim

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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Just keep checking your numbers if you are concerned. It is the ONLY way
to
answer this question accurately.

Cheers. Will do. Roughly how often (with a 2 month old pond) should I be
checking the water?

Tim

For a new pond and new ponder, daily tests are good, and as you get the feel
for how the pond and filter is performing, then you can back off the tests.
When the pond starts up in the spring, it needs constant monitoring to know
how much to feed the fish, because they are feeding a filter that isn't
ready to eat. If you significantly change the feeding keep an eye on the
numbers. I routinely check my ponds about every 3 days during the summer
and every week during the winter.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html
"Tim Downie" wrote in message
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"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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Just keep checking your numbers if you are concerned. It is the ONLY way
to
answer this question accurately.

Cheers. Will do. Roughly how often (with a 2 month old pond) should I be
checking the water?

Tim

well.... because the pump stopped and it was raining really hard here for 3 days and
I didnt feel like it and without the veggie filter I was concerned about ammonia so I
didnt feed the little buggers for 2 days. today I repaired one of the pumps went out
there to swap it and those #$$%^ koi ATE one of my water lilies. ripped it to shreds
the little buggers. ripped the leaves right off most of the plant so either I feed em
once a day or they are going to trash my lilies. sheesh. Ingrid


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