The amount of food and frequency of feeding will help. I feed mine 4 times
a day, and at least enough to keep them occupied for about 4 minutes or so.
They rarely eat at the plants. They won't eat lettuce, oranges, duckweed or
any of the other treats people feed their koi. Just pellets please. But if
I leave for a day or two, they tell me about it by trashing as much as
possible.
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"Cybe R. Wizard" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:20:21 GMT
wrote:

how much they grow depends on 1. genetics and 2. water quality and 3.
food I have 26 koi in this pond with 2 huge water lilies and they will
go thru em, up and over them to get at food lands on the leaves, but
dont eat them. http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/ponds/7-15-03a.jpg
Ingrid

Is it maybe a function of size? My five (16 inches and better) will
consume lilies all day long. Last year I transplanted three to the back
pond and saw only one leaf all year long. Put them back in the front
pond for this year and all are blooming like mad! Buncha leaves, too.
Danged koi would go into a five gallon bucket with the rim just below
the surface, stick their tails straight up, and /pull/ Arrowhead up to
get to the roots.

Cybe R. Wizard
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