It is recommend that when you get your fish; get a small amount of fish food, preferably a floating type.  Koi food is amongst the best.  Throw a little food into the pond each day for two weeks, about the same time each day.  This helps the fish get used to you.

After a couple of weeks of training the fish, throw in a little food and have a cup of coffee but stay around the pond for about five minutes each day.  After about a month, take a seat and a coffee, make yourself comfortable.  Throw in one pellet per minute, for about twenty to thirty minutes.  Once the first fish comes to the top to get the food, they will become your friends.  They can be talked to and even trained if you like.

The food is used only as a reward, not as a continual diet.  Fish from 2-5 inches have a natural survival instinct.  That is to say; fish naturally live within their means and respect the amount of food available to them.  Once you start to feed them, you remove the natural instinct.

A healthy, balanced pond has no more than fifteen inches of fish per square metre of surface area.  That's one fifteen-inch fish or two seven inch fish, but no more.

Fish are essential to every garden pond.  They eat pests such as mosquito larvae, aphids and other insects.  They also bring colour and movement to your water feature.