On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:51:07 EDT, kathy wrote:

Actually goldfish can thrive in the wild.
http://fins.actwin.com/nanf/month.9906/msg00090.html

We've joked for years about the pond police coming over the
back fence to haul off our water hyacinths. Who knows, it
may come to pass! (Thinking about the helicopter that was
flying around here the other day and the water hyacinth I
have blooming on the deck....!)

k :-)

Since I lowered my population of fish/gallon I can't get them to live, so
I'm not too worried about the lost of WH. In my WG class I told folks, if
you can grow healthy WH, you have too many fish or not enough
filtration.... but more likely too many fish.

Goldfish. We always seems to get new introductions to the Demo Pond.
Naive people just don't get that not only do they put the original pond
habitats at risk, they very well could be killing the pets they "use" to
cherish. ~ jan
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