[New Fish for the Week 5/23-29]

Do you hear that whisper Brandon?………….. moooore platinum rice fish…. What was that? Mooore orange rice fish…  😂😂 

[Suggestions on auto feeders for pond?]

On 7/28/2021 at 6:32 AM, gardenman said:

Some koi hobbyists who want really big koi (and who have really, really good filtration), make self-feeders where there's a bar, ring, or ball the koi hit when they want food and it triggers a small motor that dispenses food for the koi. It takes the koi about an hour to figure out the system and then they're eating machines.  They go through a lot, and I mean a lot, of food each day, but as long as your filtration can handle the bioload you get huge koi. Probably not practical to do for a short vacation where the goldfish would be fine with nothing, but there are crazy hobbyists out there who make all kinds of stuff to autofeed fish.

OMG!!! 😂

[Suggestions on auto feeders for pond?]

I took both of your advice. I bought the feeder, which worked well AND I put tons of duckweed in there. Fish were fine and a lot more happy when I came home.

Extra bonus: Apparently, the cover of the duckweed has made them feel a lot more safe. They aren’t hiding anymore and seem to be displaying… ahem…. Some new “behavior”! 🤣😂

[Suggestions on auto feeders for pond?]

Ok. Thanks! We’ll be gone for 2 weeks. So, they will need to be fed. 
 

Thanks Colu. I will look this one up. Have you used this feeder outside? Rain? Small Critters?

[Suggestions on auto feeders for pond?]

I have 4 large goldfish in a pond this year. Going camping. Need suggestions on a feeder that is waterproof and critter proof. Oh- and actually feeds my 4 goldfish well. lol please help! 

[Found this on the leaf of my Anubias. What on earth is it]

I kept getting them in my tanks with live black worms. Even after I tried to separate them.  So I stopped ordering them. But I was left with leeches afterwards. They loved it when I’d feed the tank white worms. I’d watch them eat them. But trying to catch them wasn’t easy. I bought some cheap glass trap on Amazon. That has helped. Also, my pea puffers seemed to take care of them on their own. lol, so I didn’t need to worry about that tank, but I wouldn’t consider them to be as good as the glass trap. It took them awhile/don’t always get along with other fish. I have gotten them from other things, such as plants, but it wasn’t nearly as many as the black worm fiasco. Probably baby leaches that I couldn’t see?