Need help with neighbors accusation

jammer wrote:

I have fished two dead rats out of my small pond. But they do not
breed there, they live and breed in the honeysuckle on the neighbors
side of the back fence.

Rats don't live in honeysuckle. There is nothing on honeysuckle they
eat. They may hide there from you, but they live where people leave
food outside for them like around garbage cans, picnic areas, ponds
where fish food is spilled on the ground, etc.

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I have fished two dead rats out of my small pond. But they do not
breed there, they live and breed in the honeysuckle on the neighbors
side of the back fence. The first time, i don't know why it was there
and the second i don't know if it was a coincidence or if the rat ate
the toadpoles, because they were gone. I don't care to kill anything
and refuse to kill small rats because they want to drink from the
pond, but if I ever catch them killing anything in it, i'll have to
think of something. (I wish the neighbors would take down the
honeysuckle....) If ponds breed rats then so are bird feeders, pet
bowls, grass seed, water hoses, etc.




On 25 Apr 2004 01:13:44 GMT, ospam (Moontanman)
wrote:

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and
rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?


Rats are not attracted to ponds for any reason. As for the mosquitos
the fish
eat the larvae beofre they ever get the chance to fly much less bite
anyone.
Your neigbors are wrong, call the city or county governement. They
should back
you up.

Moon
I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in
aquariums.
My groups

ospam (Moontanman) wrote:

Rats are not attracted to ponds for any reason. As for the mosquitos the fish
eat the larvae beofre they ever get the chance to fly much less bite anyone.
Your neigbors are wrong, call the city or county governement. They should back
you up.

If you leave fish food around the edge of the pond, rats will clean it
up. Proper sanitation is important.

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If you leave fish food around the edge of the pond, rats will clean it
up. Proper sanitation is important.

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This is true, I didn't think of the extra food around the pond. If you
eleminate any food source rats will leave. If you don't have any dogs or cats
you could put out rat bar poison around th eponds or in the honey suckle. I
hate to kill animals but rats are distructive and spread desease. They should
hot be tolerated around human habitation.

Moon
I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums.
My groups

If you leave fish food around the edge of the pond, rats will clean it
up. Proper sanitation is important.

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This is true, I didn't think of the extra food around the pond. If you
eleminate any food source rats will leave. If you don't have any dogs or cats
you could put out rat bar poison around th eponds or in the honey suckle. I
hate to kill animals but rats are distructive and spread desease. They should
hot be tolerated around human habitation.

Moon
I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums.
My groups

ospam (Moontanman) wrote:

Rats are not attracted to ponds for any reason. As for the mosquitos the fish
eat the larvae beofre they ever get the chance to fly much less bite anyone.
Your neigbors are wrong, call the city or county governement. They should back
you up.

If you leave fish food around the edge of the pond, rats will clean it
up. Proper sanitation is important.

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http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?


Rats are not attracted to ponds for any reason. As for the mosquitos the fish
eat the larvae beofre they ever get the chance to fly much less bite anyone.
Your neigbors are wrong, call the city or county governement. They should back
you up.

Moon
I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums.
My groups

I can verify the frog appetite account. Usually when I mess with my filter
I lift a lid and hundreds of midges fly out this time of year. Well 3 tree
frogs have decided crawling under the styrofoam cover and sitting at the
top edge of the media is prime dining, not a midge to see from that
chamber. ~ jan



On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:51:19 GMT, wrote:

you need to read up on the idea of those gas powered mosquito machines. it takes
weeks because what they are doing is by removing 1 mosquito they are removing all the
later generation from that one. so they attract the mosquitoes to the machine to
start. same with a pond with fish in it. my friend the Pond Lady's land is low and
swampy anyway, but she has lots of ponds not to mention the ponds in the greenhouse
for water plants. and she has no mosquitoes. she got a gazillion frogs however.
Ingrid

"Bulldog" wrote:

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?

As far as larvae and eggs go, I don't see any. In fact, my theory is that
the pond is a trap. Mosquitoes might lay eggs but the fish eat them.

This is serious and I hope someone has some ready documentation.












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~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)

you need to read up on the idea of those gas powered mosquito machines. it takes
weeks because what they are doing is by removing 1 mosquito they are removing all the
later generation from that one. so they attract the mosquitoes to the machine to
start. same with a pond with fish in it. my friend the Pond Lady's land is low and
swampy anyway, but she has lots of ponds not to mention the ponds in the greenhouse
for water plants. and she has no mosquitoes. she got a gazillion frogs however.
Ingrid

"Bulldog" wrote:

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?

As far as larvae and eggs go, I don't see any. In fact, my theory is that
the pond is a trap. Mosquitoes might lay eggs but the fish eat them.

This is serious and I hope someone has some ready documentation.












~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.

Bulldog wrote:
Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?

As far as larvae and eggs go, I don't see any. In fact, my theory is that
the pond is a trap. Mosquitoes might lay eggs but the fish eat them.

This is serious and I hope someone has some ready documentation.


As others have noted, as long as you are stocking the proper kind of fish,
mosquitos will not be an issue because the fish will eat the larva. To
convince your neighbor of this, see if your local mosquito control agency
(also called vector control in some areas) has pamphlets describing the
use of mosquito fish to control mosquito populations in waterways and give
that to your neighbor. Or search the web for other mosquito districts that
might have such pamphlets/info pages online. The use of fish is a very
common and effective control of mosquitos. So much so that many mosquito
control districts will seed a pond with mosquito fish for free or a small
fee if the owner requests it.

As for the rats, perhaps a gentle reminder that rats require a supply of
food would be in order. I doubt rats are very good at catching fish or
that the pond would be the big attraction as far as a food source (but
then again, I don't know what your pond area looks like). Still, I bet
there's an easily accessible food source nearby, like garbage, feed grain,
pet food, etc. Again, search the web for pest control agencies and find
pamphlets on rat control. They'll probably recommend things like trapping
the current rats then removing the potential sources of food and sealing
up any entries into the house (assuming their presence in the house is
what is alarming your neighbor, if it's just them outside, well, that's a
problem with nature.... animals don't know the meaning of property lines).