Bill wrote So I thought I
would see them searching for oxygen, but they rarely come to the surface.

You've got to observe the pond before sunrise.
It really is dramatic, having seen it myself, that as soon as the sun rises the
fish disappear from gasping at the surface. No, I didn't aerate the pond, I
removed all the fish and used Mosquito Bits (the granular version of Mosquito
Dunks) to take care of the mosquito problem. I used Bits because of the all the
nooks and crannies in this pond and I wanted to get the stuff everywhere in the
pond. A Bit would work fine for a kiddy pond. I decided to move the fish as I
wanted frogs to breed in the pond and I didn't want the fish to be eating up
the eggs. A bonus was all the dragon and damselflies that breed out of that
pond and finding other interesting insects.


kathy :-)
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