Jangchub wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:57:48 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

Phisherman wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:35:36 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

Which is better, getting rid of *all* the standing water? Or leaving
one bucket full of stagnant water under a tree (to lure them to one
place) and putting one of those "mosquito dunks" in it?

I think I'm gonna try the latter this year.

I dumped out some little flower pots this afternoon and they were full
of wigglers already.

Bob

Even better, put a rosy red minnow or goldfish in the bucket. Much
lower cost than those bacteria dunks. Water green with algae works
best.

A couple of years ago, I had a huge flower pot full of water with a
lotus seedling in it and a few minnows. The lotus never bloomed, but it
did look pretty with it's big leaves that danced in the rain, and the
minnows seemed happy.

I was gonna plant a lotus seed last winter to try to get it going early
enough to bloom but I never got a round tuit. (I still have the lotus
seeds, and they keep pretty well.)

Bob

Like she said, it's cruel to put a fish in stagnant water. How do
minnows "seem" happy? That is such a myth an extremely cruel.


It wasn't stagnant, it had plants growing in it to keep it oxygenated.
And my dog drank out of it, so I had to keep topping it up with fresh
water. So maybe it wasn't very attractive to skeeters after all, I dunno.

If the fish are distressed by low oxygen levels, they stay very near the
surface, move slowly, kind of gasp at the surface, and they have worried
looks on their faces. (OK, I made that very last part up)

Bob