"D. T. Green" wrote ..

Trying to give the pond goldfish a more varied diet and using things like
tinned peas is proving wasteful, because the peas sink and the fish miss a
lot. The bottom of the pond is very soft mud and i don't think the fish
can retrieve them once they are in the mud.

Is there any crafty way to arrange something to float the peas etc in, and
yet enable the fish to get at the food ?
If the pond has a bottom of soft mud then they are already getting a varied
diet eating a lot of wildlife etc. If you want to give them a varied diet
then use Tetra Flakes for Tropical Fish (not goldfish) but it's not needed
especially in an established mud bottomed pond. If you have a water but that
grows midge larvae then net those out and feed them to the fish.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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