Pond Liner vs. Roof Liner

Wrote:
roof liner, fish fine. most of these "toxic kills" are due to too many
fish tossed
into ice cold water and the fish die from a combination of cold shock
and ammonia
poisoning. Ingrid


Your are correct that fish must be acclimated and not "tossed in";
however, I would like to clarify that most garden pond fish are carp.
Carp by nature are cold water fish. The cold water will not kill your
fish, but rather the sudden temperature change will shock/kill them.
My experience with pond liner is that there is no difference. I've
been building water gardens for 17 years now and have never had an
issue with customers calling me because their fish keep dieing. If you
ask me, "fish safe pond liner" is merely a scare tactic to get more $
out of your pocket. If there is a difference, 17 years worth of
customer's wouldn't know it!




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skelley69

"skelley69" wrote in message
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If you
ask me, "fish safe pond liner" is merely a scare tactic to get more $
out of your pocket. If there is a difference, 17 years worth of
customer's wouldn't know it!
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This goes for fish foods as well. I bought the expensive koi food this year
and the fish did no better than they did on the trout and catfish foods for
$12 per 50 lb bag. Pond owners are being fleeced any way the pond supply
merchants can think of.

In fact the fry grew SLOWER and are going into winter smaller and thinner on
the foods from the Pond store than they did on the cheaper food in previous
years. And for this I paid $60.00 more! :-(
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KL....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
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