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Just wondering, is there any thng not healthy about my gold and koi eating the plants in my pond. Seems now that I have got the ammonia spike under contrtol and they are no longer stressed that they want to munch on the plants in the pond for most of the day. Don't mind but don't want that to cause another problem right before they are going to start hibernatng. Right now i am feeding my fish every other day and and it is n very small portion. Am I starving them or are they eating the plants because they are there available for them? Again i dont mind as long as it is a healthy practice for them. Please advise....
 
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If anyone want to know what a bot post looks like in a forum gramasintetico is a good example. Actually a pretty good bot.

redblazer37, fish eating plants I take as a sign they could be fed more...not saying you should feed more. Kind of like if I eat a hamburger and am still hungry I will eat broccoli, but I'd rather have another hamburger. That I eat broccoli doesn't mean I'm starving, but I could fit more into my belly. Fish will prefer fish food to plants.

How much food you feed is just one of those choices you have to make for yourself. Some people feed more than 10 times per day on an auto feeder. Some people never feed. There's not really a right or wrong way, it should just make sense for your goals.

How you adjust feeding for water temp is also a choice. I've always been like dieselplower, I assume fish have ways to deal with this kind of thing. Yes, food rotting in the gut has some risk, but I personally am not overly concerned about it. There are lots of risks.

Some plants are toxic. I had this Angel Trumpet, Brugmansia, hanging over a Koi pond
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All parts of Brugmansia are considered poisonous to humans. My Koi ate the heck out of that plant. I watched them push their heads out of the water, grab a leaf and tug and tug until a branch would break off. I assume the plant is as poisonous to fish as humans, but they sure never seemed effected. Maybe they got high off of it.
 

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Waterbug said:
If anyone want to know what a bot post looks like in a forum gramasintetico is a good example. Actually a pretty good bot.
It's just advertising spam and not very good spam at that. Normally, it should have a link to direct you to it's website but it doesn't do it. It Sunwing paid money for this spam, they should ask for its money back.
 

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JohnHuff said:
It's just advertising spam and not very good spam at that. Normally, it should have a link to direct you to it's website but it doesn't do it. It Sunwing paid money for this spam, they should ask for its money back.
SPAM is one thing. This is a programmed bot created to created a member account and then fool humans into thinking they're also human. This bot is pretty good. It's responding to other posts rather than just creating a new thread which is very easy and old stuff. Not putting a link in the message is also clever, gets around automatic detectors and looks less like SPAM. Yeah, not the best bot ever, but not too bad either. They're the future of online interaction. Telling people what they want to hear...the reason people go online. They just about own Twitter. Should be an interesting future.
 

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