Surviving in the Wild

"dt" wrote in message
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pixi wrote:

I'm sorry to disagree with you but many, many pond never had fish. Where
I
live there are ponds all over the place that never, ever had a fish.
They
are there to water livestock.

"gene" wrote in message
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The ponds that have fish in the wild are the ones whose fish didn't
die. The ponds that don't have fish are the ones whose fish did die. If
you could replicate the first, you would be fine, but how can you know
that you are not replicating the second?

I'm just curious; whereabouts do you live, pixi? Around here (Texas),
if you dig a hole and it fills
with water, *something* will wind up populating it, even if it never
connects to another body of water.
Fish (minnows, mostly) seem to show up, whether as eggs on birds' legs,
skipping across the pasture,
or maybe spontaneous generation, I don't know. ;-)

DT
http://www.thehungersite.com/

You are absolutely right. Something,:in fact lots of things, will show up
in a wild pond sooner or later. Turtles, snakes, salamanders or newts. And
quite possibly fish carried in on bird legs or whatever. But not fish in
most ponds in the wild. I understand there is a walking catfish in Florida.

I live a long way from Texas.


"dt" wrote in message
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pixi wrote:

I'm sorry to disagree with you but many, many pond never had fish. Where
I
live there are ponds all over the place that never, ever had a fish.
They
are there to water livestock.

"gene" wrote in message
roups.com...


The ponds that have fish in the wild are the ones whose fish didn't
die. The ponds that don't have fish are the ones whose fish did die. If
you could replicate the first, you would be fine, but how can you know
that you are not replicating the second?

I'm just curious; whereabouts do you live, pixi? Around here (Texas),
if you dig a hole and it fills
with water, *something* will wind up populating it, even if it never
connects to another body of water.
Fish (minnows, mostly) seem to show up, whether as eggs on birds' legs,
skipping across the pasture,
or maybe spontaneous generation, I don't know. ;-)

DT
http://www.thehungersite.com/

Does adding potash inhibit more growth of algae ?

just curious ???

Reel Mckoi wrote:
"CanadianCowboy©" wrote in message
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I asked the same question when I first started ponding.

I still only use a home made biofilter with no water testing or
chemicals added and my fish are happy and healthy.

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I recently bought my first test kit in years! The only thing I add to the
pond is Potash for the plants and KoiZyme to prevent ulcers.

"dt" wrote in message
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Fish (minnows, mostly) seem to show up, whether as eggs on birds' legs,
skipping across the pasture,
or maybe spontaneous generation, I don't know. ;-)
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My neighbor's stock pond is occasionally populated (temporarily) with
sunfish.
--
McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries
before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED.
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"CanadianCowboy©" wrote in message
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Does adding potash inhibit more growth of algae ?

just curious ???
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I believe it does, by stimulating the growth of higher plants that starve
the algae of nitrogen and phosphate.
--
McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries
before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED.
My Pond Page http://tinyurl.com/cuq5b
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

One of the main tricks Mother Nature has is
that she has LOTS of water to each fish.

Our garden ponds are overstocked compared
to Mother Nature's ponds and that's where
things start to get out of balance.

That also means that available food to the fish,
zooplankton, insect larvae, algae, worms, snails
and other tasties are available to Mother Nature's
fish and sustains them just fine.

kathy :-) www.blogfromthebog.com
this week ~ the rat-tail maggot!

And lets stress the words sustains them they have to go looking for
food, it doesn't drop out of the sky in handfuls at regular intervals.

And as far as water out, water in, as in water change outs I assume OP
might be referring to? You too could live in a typical room day in and day
out, but that air would get pretty stale if you weren't allow to open the
door and windows once in a while.

~ jan

~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

I'm not really sure what the OP was talking
about anymore after subsequent postings
by the OP....

Anyway, Mother Nature does just fine with
her fish and her ponds. Our ponds aren't anywhere close to
her ponds, most of them anyway, discounting
those who play with gallons on the *gazillion*
side of the scale. So you can't really compare
one to the other.

And every once in a while Mother Nature does have
a fish kill, things go bad, the ice age comes back,
Paris Hilton shows up, the next hurricane comes
ashore or it is 2008 and we're back to politics again.

k :-)