On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:05:10 GMT, Victor Martinez opined:

animaux wrote:
Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped
eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly.

After the water temperature drops below something (45F, I think?) you're
not supposed to feed fish anymore. Their metabolism slows too much to
digest food. We've never fed our fish during winter and they do just fine.

Yeah, but the water has been 60 during the day and we have a heater in there to
take that sharp cold off. It never gets below 50. When Mark does give them
pellets, he makes sure they are very active, physically, and before he gives
them the pellets, soaks them to make them expand before the fish eat.