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Old 22-04-2007, 11:39 PM posted to rec.ponds.moderated
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Default starting pump for spring and worried about fish and frogs


"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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Cyli wrote:

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:49:48 CST, phillerup
wrote:

Unfortunatly one of my goldfish just turned up floating.
Tail is all black seems to have been dead a while. Why would he all
of a sudden start floating? He definatly wasn't there yesterday


Takes a while for the decomposition gasses to build up enough to float
the body?


Especially in Spring - the bacteria that cause the decomposition aren't
very
active, yet, either.
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I'm not saying a word. Not a word. It's a mystery where we pick up these
little tidbits, mmmm?
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