IIRC there is 2 types of duckweed. I have both koi and GF and none of
mine even touched it unless I do not feed them for a few
weeks.....and even then I doubt they realy bothered with it. .

I certainly would not put any in my ponds for a free or cheap means to
feed fish as it can get out of hand in some situaitons........Best
feed other veggies etc if your intent on additiional feeding
supplements, with things that are not gonna be invasive or take over
yur pond.


On 8 Jun 2006 16:56:48 -0700, wrote:
I presume there is still some expertise here in spite of the garbage so
I would like to expand on the duckweed thing.

If it were not that several people here and elsewhere have said
goldfish eat duckweed, I would have written it off as nonsense.

I bought 16 feeders yesterday and have spent a good deal of time
studying their behavior and conclude that I have indeed been snookered.

On the rare occasion that one came to the surface, it simply looked
around and sounded again.

It is hard to believe that 1600 or even 16,000 would have the slightest
impact on the duckweed populaton.

Does anyone have any experience in this regard with a real (natural)
pond?

Thanks,

js