"*muffin*" wrote in message
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"Reel Mckoi" wrote in message
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"*muffin*" wrote in message
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ok, I have been adding a few more fish to my pond this year.
I am 'trying' black moors & orandas etc. plus a few small koi .
most of them had just vanished.


$$ How large is your pond?

3800 gallons


$$ Do you have kingfishers,
no

herons,
no

bullfrogs,

yes , but small ones, we have had much larger ones than the ones here
now,,
& didn't lose fish before.. these frogs do not look large enough to eat
the
size fish that are missing (especially the 5in black moor, as it would be
larger than the frog!)


snapper turtles
no

snakes
the last one I saw was a garter, about the size of a pencil
(never saw a black snake , ever)
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You're pond is a nice size. BTW we started to miss fish weeks before we saw
where they were going. The first to vanish were all our fantails and moors.
Then the Shubunkins and sarassas,... then we started with koi and they too
vanished. Then, almost by accident we started to see where they were going.
One day we caught a black racer leaving the pond with a large fantail
hanging from it's mouth. One day we entered our driveway and saw a
Kingfisher leaving the pond with a fish in it's beak, we saw a bullfrog on a
rock with part of a tail hanging from it's closed mouth, suddenly saw herons
every day fishing from the rock necklace around the ponds, one day I went to
lift a rock from the shelf to find it was the rear end of a snapping
turtle.......
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