Bite my ass bitch............yea you Jan,. I never had a problem with
you that is up until now, so bite me! I now consider you open season
as well.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:00:23 -0800, ~ jan JJsPond.us
wrote:

===On 14 Feb 2005 14:43:38 -0800, "Mike C" wrote:
===
===Okay, I will get it out of there . However, don't act like leaving it
===is absurd:
===
===Ignore Roy, we do. ;-)
===
===1)I've read that if ice forms in the winter you shouldn't pound on it
===so you don't disturb the domant Koi. Certainly hitting with a new would
===disturb them even more.

There certainly is more than one way to skin a cat, or in this case
make a hole to retreive dead fish without pounding on the ice........
===2) Fish die all the time in nature and nobody gets them out.===
===Yup, but that doesn't mean it is good for the rest of the living... and in
===nature there would be critters still active at low temps to eat the dead
===fish. Right now it is polluting your water quality, which isn't good when
===you only have 500 gallons.

Normally momma nature has a means of cleaning up her mess and also the
body of water is much larger than a back yard pond, and is not as
adversely affected.........plus there are also critters abound that
loves to dine on dead fish weather on the ice under the ice or alive
and in the water, so it would not last long in nature. A pond such as
yours is basically a container, when things rot, it has no place to
go, and being its such a small body of water it does not even fall in
the same catagory as a natural pond and a dead fish would be in.
===
===3) If the pond was covered in snow/ice, you wouldn't even know there
===was a dead fish to remove.
===
===True, but you can't use that excuse cause you peeked. ;o) ~ jan
===

Yea you would when your ice melted and the rest of them were dead
too, then you would be posting what the hell killed my fish,
everyhting was perfect, I had it covered, I had air, I shut off my
pumps, I used SALT and every other conceiveable concept............


=== ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~


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