On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:20:53 GMT, Daniel Phillips
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:31:37 GMT, "Snooze"
wrote:

In such a small pond, a gold fish or two would keep the mosquito population
down. Just get the cheap 25c feeder goldfish. You could also use mosquito
fish (Gambusia affinis).

You could also break a mosquito dunk into quarters and every few weeks just
toss in a new dunk fragment.

Sameer

Ok, I put two of those inexpensive goldfish (28c) in there. Although,
I put the water that was in the bag into the whiskey barrel pond, even
though the bag said not to...oops. Newbie blunder maybe. One
goldfish swam around awhile before swimming to the bottom (he's not
moving much now), and I don't know where the other went. Did I do
something wrong, and what would be the cause of fish death in this
case? Chlorine from the bag?

hmm....And now I can't find neither. There is a large over turned
plastic pot in the water that's serving as leverage for one of the
plants, where they could be hiding. Will they hunt/scavenge around
the barrel, or do I have to put food in the container within a
container to make sure they get it?

To tell you what I did....

1) let the bag with fish in it stay put in the water for 15 minutes.
I covered the bag with two pots levered just out of the water so it
wouldn't get direct sunlight and fried fish.
2) Cut the bag open, then slowly level the bag horizontally on the
water, letting container water garden water and bag water mix a little
bit, allowing the fish to swim out instead of dumping them out.
3) Removed the shade pots (of course)

Let me know what steps I should add or remove in the future, please.
:-)

Daniel Phillips

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