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Old August 21st 03, 03:52 AM
dkat
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Default There was an old woman who swallowed a fly

Thank you for the nice chuckle... D Kat

P.S. My billions of mosquito fish babies have been becoming noticeable
fewer in number. I have 3 butterfly koi, a fair number of offspring from my
original "feeder" (and one of the original) gold fish, some number of
frogs.... I assume they are playing a part in the reduced number of smaller
fish (both mosquito and goldfish). I do not feed my fish more than they
show interest in after the first few minutes.


"joe" wrote in message
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The biggest two mistakes I made with my pond we

1) putting Gambusia in it
2) planting pennywort.

I'm going to deal with the pennywort in fall, but to help control the
mosquito fish, I went out and bought two Oscars. I made a deal with the

pet
store that I could return them in October when the water became too cold

for
them.

My SO immediately named them and said we would have to get an aquarium for
them in winter. In our house, once you get a name, you stay until you die,

a
rule that has served me in good stead many times. Well, there's no room

for
an aquarium, so I will shortly be building a 200 gallon, heated (no less)
pond.

The first thing the Oscars did was decide to snub the Gambusia diet and

eat
goldfish pellets.

What can I put in that will eat the Oscars?

Joe



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Old August 21st 03, 07:15 AM
Karen Mullen
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In article , joe writes:

What can I put in that will eat the Oscars?


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Old August 21st 03, 02:52 PM
Sam Hopkins
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Default There was an old woman who swallowed a fly

Get a baby bass. They wont eat pellets and will suck down your fish.

"joe" wrote in message
...
The biggest two mistakes I made with my pond we

1) putting Gambusia in it
2) planting pennywort.

I'm going to deal with the pennywort in fall, but to help control the
mosquito fish, I went out and bought two Oscars. I made a deal with the

pet
store that I could return them in October when the water became too cold

for
them.

My SO immediately named them and said we would have to get an aquarium for
them in winter. In our house, once you get a name, you stay until you die,

a
rule that has served me in good stead many times. Well, there's no room

for
an aquarium, so I will shortly be building a 200 gallon, heated (no less)
pond.

The first thing the Oscars did was decide to snub the Gambusia diet and

eat
goldfish pellets.

What can I put in that will eat the Oscars?

Joe



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