On 07/07/2012 12:37, 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 ?



I believe fish are partial to lettuce leaves. Try floating a lettuce
leaf and see if they come up to nibble at it. It is relatively
inexpensive, healthy, and will float. Otherwise, try some of the
floating pond plants. Fish will generally nibble at plants in the pond
anyway, so are probably already getting enough 'greens' if you've got
plants in the pond. Do bear in mind that if you over-feed, the water
will become fouled with fishy waste matter.

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Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay