Re: on "placing" nice pond comets

[John Hines]

(ann in houston) wrote:

>I do plan to go around with my eyes open for ponds and new pond
>construction in my neighbors' yards, but that won't be enough to find
>homes for all of them. I know of two neighbors with huge ponds that
>are very deep, but they have geese. Do geese eat fish? They have
>teeth! Also, I know geese and ducks foul a pond's water pretty badly.

Canada Geese eat grass. The nice suburban office parks with nice mown
grass, and retention ponds look like heaven to them.

Much to the dismay of people trying to walk on sidewalks in the area.

>There is a law around here that large building complexes must have
>'retention ponds' for runoff to avoid contributing to our local
>flooding problem. Many places have turned these into water features
>with spray fountains and all. If they don't run off to ditches, would
>these large installations be good candidates? I wouldn't just dump
>them in. I would go and ask the management. Would the fish starve?

Those ponds must by design drain off to natural rivers, so as to be part
of the flood design, so it is unlikely that they (the local DNR) would
want non-native fish.

Yes, you must ask the owner before considering anything on their
property.

[John Hines]

(ann in houston) wrote:

>I do plan to go around with my eyes open for ponds and new pond
>construction in my neighbors' yards, but that won't be enough to find
>homes for all of them. I know of two neighbors with huge ponds that
>are very deep, but they have geese. Do geese eat fish? They have
>teeth! Also, I know geese and ducks foul a pond's water pretty badly.

Canada Geese eat grass. The nice suburban office parks with nice mown
grass, and retention ponds look like heaven to them.

Much to the dismay of people trying to walk on sidewalks in the area.

>There is a law around here that large building complexes must have
>'retention ponds' for runoff to avoid contributing to our local
>flooding problem. Many places have turned these into water features
>with spray fountains and all. If they don't run off to ditches, would
>these large installations be good candidates? I wouldn't just dump
>them in. I would go and ask the management. Would the fish starve?

Those ponds must by design drain off to natural rivers, so as to be part
of the flood design, so it is unlikely that they (the local DNR) would
want non-native fish.

Yes, you must ask the owner before considering anything on their
property.

[Lee Brouillet]

Another thing to consider about those retention ponds is that their primary
job is to catch run off: from the driveways, from the parking lots, from the
grass. They're full of things that are not nice for a fish (oil, gas,
fertilizers, pesticides just to mention a few). They look nice, but they
don't have critters in 'em.

Lee

"ann in houston" > wrote in message
om...
> I do plan to go around with my eyes open for ponds and new pond
> construction in my neighbors' yards, but that won't be enough to find
> homes for all of them. I know of two neighbors with huge ponds that
> are very deep, but they have geese. Do geese eat fish? They have
> teeth! Also, I know geese and ducks foul a pond's water pretty badly.
> Will these ponds be good places for comets?
> There is a law around here that large building complexes must have
> 'retention ponds' for runoff to avoid contributing to our local
> flooding problem. Many places have turned these into water features
> with spray fountains and all. If they don't run off to ditches, would
> these large installations be good candidates? I wouldn't just dump
> them in. I would go and ask the management. Would the fish starve?
> I don't necessarily see water plants in them for the fish to eat.
> Would bugs be plentiful enough for them?
> How hard is it to ship fish to takers that live farther away. It's
> probably pretty expensive. We have an old styrofoam shipping
> container from some fish we bought from the web. Maybe someone would
> split the p&h with us.
> More thoughts from any of you?
> Ann

[Lee Brouillet]

Another thing to consider about those retention ponds is that their primary
job is to catch run off: from the driveways, from the parking lots, from the
grass. They're full of things that are not nice for a fish (oil, gas,
fertilizers, pesticides just to mention a few). They look nice, but they
don't have critters in 'em.

Lee

"ann in houston" > wrote in message
om...
> I do plan to go around with my eyes open for ponds and new pond
> construction in my neighbors' yards, but that won't be enough to find
> homes for all of them. I know of two neighbors with huge ponds that
> are very deep, but they have geese. Do geese eat fish? They have
> teeth! Also, I know geese and ducks foul a pond's water pretty badly.
> Will these ponds be good places for comets?
> There is a law around here that large building complexes must have
> 'retention ponds' for runoff to avoid contributing to our local
> flooding problem. Many places have turned these into water features
> with spray fountains and all. If they don't run off to ditches, would
> these large installations be good candidates? I wouldn't just dump
> them in. I would go and ask the management. Would the fish starve?
> I don't necessarily see water plants in them for the fish to eat.
> Would bugs be plentiful enough for them?
> How hard is it to ship fish to takers that live farther away. It's
> probably pretty expensive. We have an old styrofoam shipping
> container from some fish we bought from the web. Maybe someone would
> split the p&h with us.
> More thoughts from any of you?
> Ann