Need Fishy Help

LeeAnne wrote Do you guys/gals think I had fish eggs on my plants when I
bought them earlier this year?

Yes. I set up a tank of tadpoles for a second grade class gathered off a pool
cover, bought a whole bunch of anacharis and one day we noticed a tiny fish
swimming with the tadpoles. We named him Egghead. ;-)

This birdy pond is bound to freeze solid where you are.
I'd bring the fish in. You can buy a small aquarium.
In my indoor setups I bring in anacharis and duckweed, even some plants and put
them all infront of a sunny window.




k30a
and the watergardening labradors
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k30a you're always such a wealth of info, thank you so much. I'll buy a 10
or 15 gal aquarium - I left my 'touch me not' outside all winter in its pot
and this spring it came back, so I figure I'll do the same w/it again this
year (I'll take it out of the pond like I did last year) and there is
another plant in there too also potted, forget the name now, (rotula,
rotila, ro??somethinga) but there is water lettuce which I'll bring in as
well as some handfuls of duckweed.

Actually I may even have a tank kicking around in the basement now that I
think of it.

What is the lowest my temps can dip before it kills off the fishes? I'm
surprised they have survived w/the hot hot weather we had up here - a week
straight of god-awful heat and humidity. I think I'll get a thermometer and
try to test the water temps in the am and pm hours.

LeeAnne
"K30a" wrote in message
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LeeAnne wrote Do you guys/gals think I had fish eggs on my plants
when I
bought them earlier this year?

Yes. I set up a tank of tadpoles for a second grade class gathered off a
pool
cover, bought a whole bunch of anacharis and one day we noticed a tiny
fish
swimming with the tadpoles. We named him Egghead. ;-)

This birdy pond is bound to freeze solid where you are.
I'd bring the fish in. You can buy a small aquarium.
In my indoor setups I bring in anacharis and duckweed, even some plants
and put
them all infront of a sunny window.




k30a
and the watergardening labradors
http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...dors/home.html

Ingrid and others would know better but I think a swing of 20 degrees is about
as much as they can tolerate - ick seems to kick in there.

Duckweed does great indoors for me. Water lettuce rotted away. I have one water
hyacinth in the kitchen window that is doing well but I doubt it will like the
winter sunshine.
It seems to be hit or miss with plants, depends on the amt. of sunlight I
guess. But anacharis does well and mulitiplys in the aquatic frog habitat - I
move the excess over for my youngest's goldfish to eat.


k30a
and the watergardening labradors
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