Ok, that is good information. Did nets on the pond help with snakes?

I am assuming I am going to have to net the pond to stop herons, so if
that will help with snakes as well, that is good.

doug
Reel Mckoi ) wrote:

: "Doug Quarnstrom" wrote in message
: ...
:
: What is your experience with garter and bull snakes. I presume that both
: eat koi,

: * The only snakes we haven't seen eat our fish (before netting the ponds)
: were those small green garden snakes.

: but I also assume that there is some point at where a koi is
: too big for a garter snake to kill.

: * We have snakes here as long as 6' and can eat quite large fish, or kill
: the fish trying since they eat them head first.

: What about Bull snakes? Are
: they a threat to big koi?

: * Any snake you see in your ponds and just about any snake that will enter a
: pond or water will eat fish - or so a wildlife agent told me some time ago.
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