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"2pods" wrote in message ... I've been given two shubunkins and a grass carp to put in our pond. Having never kept fish before, how much and how often should they be fed ? snip Hi, Where did you say you lived? Make sure they are legal to possess. following quoted from http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/hydcirc.html begin quote "Grass carp is a herbivorous fish that is effective for controlling hydrilla (Van Dyke et al. 1984). Possession of this fish is illegal in most states because of the potential environmental damage that could result if escaped fish establish a breeding population. Sterile, triploid grass carp (Malone 1984) are also effective (Cassani and Caton 1986) and are now available and legal by permit in some states in the U.S. In small ponds or lakes and canal systems, with adequate control structures, and where total removal of vegetation is acceptable," end quote HTH -_- how no NEWS is good Also your grass carp will grow quite large I have 2 triploid (Legal in Alabama) in my 1/3+ acre pond weighed about 8 ounces when I put them in 2 years ago and caught one by accident fishing for bluegill the other day and he weighed about 3 pounds. Bob |
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2pods wrote:
It's OK, I'm in Scotland :-) I was wondering 'cos they didn't seem interested in the food at all. Maybe still stressed ? Peter "how" wrote in message ... "2pods" wrote in message ... Hi, Where did you say you lived? Make sure they are legal to possess. following quoted from http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/hydcirc.html begin quote Snip I have never seen my grass carp come up to feed on the catfish food. They seem to hang out around the iris clumps and feed on the algae and moss. Maybe if you toss a piece of lettuce or some peas your grass carp might get interested. Bob -- !doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" html head meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; " meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-3 i686) [Netscape]" /head body Check out my homepage: a href="http://home.hiwaay.net/~n4bk/index.htm"http://home.hiwaay.net/~n4bk/index.htm/a br /body /html |
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"Bob Koerber" wrote in message ... how wrote: "2pods" wrote in message ... I've been given two shubunkins and a grass carp to put in our pond. Having never kept fish before, how much and how often should they be fed ? snip Hi, Where did you say you lived? Make sure they are legal to possess. following quoted from http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/hydcirc.html begin quote "Grass carp is a herbivorous fish that is effective for controlling hydrilla (Van Dyke et al. 1984). Possession of this fish is illegal in most states because of the potential environmental damage that could result if escaped fish establish a breeding population. Sterile, triploid grass carp (Malone 1984) are also effective (Cassani and Caton 1986) and are now available and legal by permit in some states in the U.S. In small ponds or lakes and canal systems, with adequate control structures, and where total removal of vegetation is acceptable," end quote HTH -_- how no NEWS is good Also your grass carp will grow quite large I have 2 triploid (Legal in Alabama) in my 1/3+ acre pond weighed about 8 ounces when I put them in 2 years ago and caught one by accident fishing for bluegill the other day and he weighed about 3 pounds. Bob You call that big? My two year old albino channel cat weighs 6 lbs and there is no end in sight! |
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Fish feeding
Your grass carp's primary diet will be vegetation.
Tom L.L. ----------------------- 2pods wrote: I've been given two shubunkins and a grass carp to put in our pond. Having never kept fish before, how much and how often should they be fed ? I realise they may well be getting all they require from the pond, but would like to feed them now and again. Peter |
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"2pods" wrote in message
... I was wondering 'cos they didn't seem interested in the food at all. Maybe still stressed ? I get this list long time ago in a website: Grass Carp Feeding Preferences Frequently Eaten Brazilian elodea Duckweed Elodea Hydrilla Musk-Grass (Chara) Pondweed Slender Spikerush Southern Naiad Widgeon-grass Sometimes Eaten Algae, Filamentous Baby-tears Bladderwort Coontail Eelgrass Fanwort Maidencane Naiad, Marine Nitella (Stonewort) Salvinia, Common Soft rush Southern water-grass Spikerush Water-meal Rarely Eaten Algae, Planktonic Alligator-Weed American Lotus Azolla (Mosquito fern) Bacopa Banana lily Bog-Moss Bulrush Burhead Sedge Cattail Common Arrowhead Duck-Potato Frog's-bit Hygrophila Knotgrass Limnophila Para grass Parrot's-feather Pennywort (Dollarweed) Pickerelweed Red Ludwigia Rush Fuirena Salvinia, Giant Sawgrass Sedges Smartweed Spatterdock Strap-leaf sag Taro (Elephant ear) Torpedograss Water Paspalum Water-hyacinth Water-lettuce Water-lily Water-shield Regards, Wong -- Latitude: 06.10N Longitude: 102.17E Altitude: 5m |
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