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Tue, Jun 15, 10 at 21:39
| So do koi actually eat string algae? I have two ponds. One is larger, above ground and has my fish. The other is small, preformed in ground and is natural. I have water lilies, tadpoles and unfortunately lots of snails. Not the good kind either, the kind that eat my water lilies. Anyway, I have been trying to gather the snails and feed them to the fish. On a whim tonight, I grabbed some of the string algae from the little pond because it was full of snails and put it in the big pond. The koi went nuts. I don't know if they would actually eat the algae if it weren't full of baby snails though. I would happily put the string algae in my big pond for the fish if they would eat it. However, DON'T want to if all it will do is get a start in my nicer pond. I also have a plecostomus in the big pond. Do they eat string algae? |
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| I suspect that they don't specifically eat the string algae. In my pond they will go nuts if I flick in a snail or two. If there's string algae in the way too bad!!! You'd think I was serving them escargot - without the garlic butter!!! ---David |
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