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09-06-2006, 01:49 PM posted to rec.ponds

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.

Snookered? My experience of feeders is (a) they're often not healthy and
may not eat anything, anyway, and (b) they're too small to do much about
duckweed. Give them some time.

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

Give them a week. At that point you may have some fish that are eating
healthily - or you may not have any fish at all'

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?

You shouldn't put goldfish into a natural pond. In many places, it is
illegal - for good reason.
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derek