"Hal" wrote in message
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When I had a mix of goldfish and koi, it was not unusual for me to
find a small goldfish that had gone down the bottom drain to the
filter barrels and was growing faster than the ones living in the
pond. I started netting them out, but could swear some of the same
fish were back the next time I cleaned the filters. From what I've
seen they don't like pipes they can't turn around in and I suspect if
the fish was too large to turn around in the 2" pipe it was really
glad to be rescued.
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Margaret's setup didn't have an area for fish to survive. The filter was a
mass of solid roots from the Pickerel Weed. Anything that went through the
pipe landed in the roots. I never did understand how that filter worked
without clogging.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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