I most certainly do have "call" to use language like this. You havent been around
very long, but take a quick tour thru his messages directed at me over the years and
you will see hate filled, nasty dare I say heartless personal attacks on me in
addition to posting outright lies about me.

As to this last. He has made statements in the past about "personal phone
conversations" he has had with people. Jo Ann and I have called a couple of these
people to ask about the purported conversations, and they either denied ever talking
to him at all or deny saying what he reports. For years he has repeatedly attacked me
about the salt issue. I usually reference Dr. Floyd's article on salt which clearly
states how useful salt is. Facts online can be referenced and checked, phone calls
cannot. So in order to refute the use of salt use a "phone call" to "the department"
is produced where they deny salt has any use in ponds with pet fish. Like I said.
Dr. Floyd is the person taught Jo Ann about the uses of salt as it applied to her
aquarium and pond fish. Dr. Floyd is the person wrote the article. It is a totally
specious argument that salt is good for raising koi in large aquaculture ponds but
not for koi in a homeowners pond.

There is NO downside to having/using low levels of salt in a pond prophylactically.
OTOH, there are obvious benefits of salt to fish under stress, a condition that is
status quo in most ponds. Sharp temp drops, visits from herons or other predators,
bathing birds pooping parasites into the ponds, spawning, labs taking a swim. I have
probably one of the tightest ponds in terms of controlling various stressful
conditions but I am unwilling to take the risk to my fish...... I use salt. If you
dont want to, dont. But dont attack me for defending a very good and healthy
practice for keeping koi, one that is recommended by the experts. Ingrid


Derek Broughton wrote:
There's no call to be using language like that. There's no inconsistency
between one person learning to use salt in ponds based on some research,
and the research organization saying that they make no recommendations
about such. Dr. Floyd's research clearly _isn't_ related to small ponds
and you, as a researcher, should understand how irresponsible it would be
for the researchers to extrapolate their data to something they didn't
know.



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