Herons

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:05:46 -0600, "~ Windsong ~" P@P wrote:

## Yes it does effect the looks of the pond. But so does those tall
gawky water sprayers

My motion sprinkler is neither gawky, nor tall. It only stands 18" high at
most, and is hardly noticable, as friends keep walking right in front of
it. Okay..... X-friends. ;o)

## LOL!! :-D

Carol, Did it occur that maybe every suggestion or comment here is not
necessary directed at you?

## I thought it was,... silly me. :-))

I'm sure someone out there in usenet might have
money like this, and quite frankly, I wish they'd send me some and get the
idea of ponds out of their silly heads!

## With my husband semi-retired we can't invest any more money in ponds. I
wish we could. I would love to have one 3000 gallon pond rather then the 2
I have.

It is obvious by this thread that
they'll just ugly net covered eye sores at best and/or will break their
hearts with fish losses at worst. So you all using all upper case so you
know it is a plead for money STOP PUTTING IN PONDS AND WASTING MONEY,
SEND
IT TO ME! That's jjspondatgocougs.wsu.edu for direct contact on where to
send your dough. ;o)

## If they send you too much you can split it with me.

In conclusion I think everyone here will agree that Carol I'm in the
Heron's Book To Fine Dining Windsong should always keep a net on her
ponds, no doubt about it. )

## Only if I want to keep GF and koi.

The rest of us can probably try other things with success, knowing nets
are
always an option. ~ jan

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Cichlidiot wrote:

Here's a potentially radical idea. How about tolerating the birds and
designing a way for them to gravitate towards the far more replaceable
fish (and less emotionally attached) than the expensive koi? The best
design I've seen so far is a deep, vertically flat sided pond fed by a
long, shallow stream/waterfall at a public koi pond. The stream was

Sounds good.

teaming with mosquito fish, crayfish and occasionally goldfish fry. The
herons almost always ate from there instead of attempting to get anything
in the main pond because they could wade into the stream and have pretty
easy pickings. Loosing those kind of fish wasn't a big deal (although I
suppose losing too many mosquito fish could be a problem in mosquito
season, but it's easy to get more).

Not likely to be a problem. I've never seen mosquito larvae or even many
mosquitos around my ponds. Koi and Goldfish are quite happy to eat them
too.

The only koi lost was due to human
problems when a teen threw a stepping stone from the garden into the pond
and it hit a koi.

Remove stone, tie round teenager's neck, repeat...

The stream served a second purpose too. It was planted with milfoil and
other plants, so it acted as a vegetative filter.

I've done that. It requires vigilance, though. That milfoil has a tendency
to dam the whole stream.

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derek