"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:30:42 -0600, "Grandpa"
wrote:

Hello. I just had my first pond this summer and things went fairly well.
I
have 1 koi and 3 goldfish and I live in Canada where they would not
survive
the -40 weather in January so I brought them in the other day. My
question
is now what, how much, and often to feed the 4 of them. The koi is about
7
inches, the others are about 5. They are now all in a 70 gallon
aquarium.
I have been giving them pellet food in the pond on occasion and they
really
have been fattened up on all the crickets we had the last month that
committed suicide in the pond. Do I continue with the pellet food in the
house and feed them every other day, or what is the guidelines here? I
don't want to overfeed them and deal with all the poop they will be
putting
out. By the way, I have a fluval 304 filter hooked up to the tank.

Thanks.

I've got a 404 fluval on a 55 gallon. I started bring my goldfish in 2
weeks ago, 1 per week. I won't feed much but a couple of pellets the whole
4 weeks till I have all 4 fish inside, and the filter is clearly on its
way
to being fully cycled. Let your test kits decide when and how much you
feed. ~ jan


I did about the same when I moved my indoor Goldies a few weeks ago. I
cycled the new filter (Fluval 304) on the old tank for a few weeks to
establish bacteria. Then I gradually introduced the GF to the new tank,
starting with the smallest fish and monitoring Nitrates and Ammonia as I
went. You could use some material from your pond's filter to seed the
aquarium's filter.

You might find one 304 a little small for a 70 gallon tank. I've got two on
my 75 gallon. Redundancy is always a good thing with aquariums. That way if
one dies (Filter/Heater/etc.) you still got some environmental control. This
also allows you to clean the filters on alternate weeks/months/whatever, so
that if you screw up and kill your Biofilter, you've still got biobugs in
the other filter.