The food items of C. carpio var. specularis were classified into 6 groups. C. carpio var. specularis is
mostly omnivorous in nature. Among the food items zooplankton and debris and detritus were most dominant followed by the aquatic plant parts, phytoplankton, zooplankton, debris and detritus, insects
and semi-digested food materials. In this case the nature of this fish is omnivorous because also feeds
on zooplankton in culture ponds.
It was observed that the feeding intensity of C. carpio var. specularis in matured fish was poor and the
feeding intensity was very poor in spawning period. The feeding intensity of immature fishes was
found to feed actively. The food and feeding habits of fishes vary from month to month. This variation
is due to the changes in the composition of food organisms occurring at different seasons of the year
(Bhuiyan et al., 1997, 1998, 1999).