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Old 21-05-2003, 01:20 PM
Bonnie Espenshade
 
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Default Koi and Water lilies

Pickmaster wrote:
Do Koi sometimes feed on water lilies? I found all the leaves stripped from
about 4 plants and am pretty supicious it 6 foot long Koi--the pond is large
and there are plenty for them to eat, but the leaves are suddenly just
floating around the pond--



I never saw my koi eat the lilies. What I did see was them
pulling the lilies up by the roots and also trying to get a
piece of fish food off of a leaf. They will also eat bugs
or snails on the bottom of the leaves also. In other words,
I never saw them eat a leaf but I have seen them mangle a lily.

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Bonnie
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