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brevity snips

Personally I would never net my ponds.

We had no choice. It was either netting them or giving up on fish. The other
problem was the endless stream of snapping turtles. I didn't want to reach
down for a plant pot one day and lose a finger. :-O

Too dangerous for the dogs and
neighborhood cats and any bird, mouse or snake who stops by. My pond
is structured so that is not that easy for the neighborhood heron or
visiting kingfishers.

Even our steep sided 2000g pond was being cleaned out by herons, snakes,
kingfishers, bullfrogs and turtles. There doesn't seem to be any way to
design ponds to keep these critters out. How is your pond built to keep
them out? The steep sided pond was just as infested with fish-eaters as the
smaller pond with less steep sides.

Also we don't have the big water snakes like in some parts of the
country and only one raccoon visit and they got treed much to their
dismay.

Racoons don't come near the homes on my road due to the number of dogs - I
think.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
ISP: Hughes.net
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