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Message: [QUOTE="crsublette, post: 147597, member: 3847"] Only eat what nature feeds them with, which we can imitate such as Coleen has pointed out with her ponds as an example. When below 40F, fish don't eat anything that casual pond hobbyists typically feed them. Folk that talk of "stop feeding below 40F" are talking about food we typically feed them such as wheat germ, etc. You can feed the fish as usual, such as wheat germ (a typical cool weather food) and they'll swallow it, but the fish's metabolism can become slowed down so much, due to the cold, that the fish does not have the energy to digest the food so the food just sits and rots inside the fish; it is this or fish eating something that naturally occurs causing the same affect may possibly be one of the causes due to some winter fish kills. Have you tried a formula similar to algae or maybe even baby fish food when temps drop below 40F? Often, I have read this type of food residing around and inside the plant roots and sometimes the plants them self such as duckweed; duckweed is often used as one of the primary foods fish eat. I bet ya even Coleen's fish would still go crazy over some duckweed. [/QUOTE]