In message
,
Doug writes
On Jul 11, 7:40*am, chris French
wrote:
In message , Stephen
Wolstenholme writesOn 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 ?

Fish never know when to stop eating so you have to assess how much to
give them. They will eat everything they find even if it's in mud.

Ours do,if you give too much food, it is just left floating about,until
eventually sinks. Ditto the tropical fish in the tanks (which is why
they tell you to sparing with feeding fish in tanks, as the breakdown of
uneaten food isn't good for the water quality.

I am confused. Have tried searching the internet for an answer but
with no luck. In most cases it says give fish food they can eat in a
few minutes but my fish hide when I go to feed them and take a while
to reappear to eat the food so its difficult to judge. OTOH if I leave
loads of food floating about they will usually eat it all within 24
hours.

Or does it sink?

Leave it half an hour or an hour or so and see what is left, they will
have probably come and eaten all they want.

Probably the firms that supply fish food on the internet want us to
feed them regularly so its difficult to get impartial advice on
feeding. So, how long can I leave my fish without food in the summer?


We don't worry about feeding ours when we go away, they seem fine.
Tropical fish are fine left for a week with no feeding.(getting someone
to feed them is more of a problem, as they tend not to believe how
little food they need and so over feed, which isn't good for the tank
conditions).
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Chris French