Cecil do you hand feed to facilitate observation or do you just not want the cost of a feeder or is there some other reason? I'm just curious and given that you raise fish for a living figure you have a good reason for hand feeding.
Jeff,
Two reasons:
1.) I Can't afford an automatic feeder(s) and I'd have to have 4 of them for each pond.
2.) I actually enjoy feeding the fish with the side benefit of keeping tabs on how things are going health wise. As we all know feeding is an indicator of health or if there are any problems with the pond. Robustly feeding fish are healthy.
The dog likes the fish feed too and it's the high point of her day to tag along during feeding time. This reason doesn't really count though.
