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Old 07-07-2012, 02:03 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
David Hill David Hill is offline
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Default pond food floatation

On 07/07/2012 13:45, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 12:37:02 +0100, "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 ?

Why feed them at all? We have about a dozen adult goldfish in our pond
and a similar number of fry. They never get fed, and they're thriving
and breeding. Goldfish don't need feeding if they're in a reasonable
sized pond in the open.


I think the OP is trying for fish and chips with built in mushy peas.