That sounds like it, I have been holding off on introducing fish till I got
my filter in, that came yesterday so now I guess I will bring in a couple of
fish...I have a friend that has offered me free subikens (sp?) I am going to
try those for fear that KOI will be an expensive free lunch for the local
wildlife....if these fish survive, KOI it is :-).

"bern muller" wrote in message
news

Bob H wrote in message
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I found bugs of some kind in the pond today, they don't look like
mosquitoes, they seem to have black bodies with 4 legs that stretch out
to
all 4 corners when they swim with what appear to be single wings...the
whole
bug is about the size of shelled sunflower seed or smaller but the legs
spread out to about the size of a quarter...they o.k. or do I need to
nuke
the pond?

Do they seem to we walking on the water? If so they are water striders,
and
are harmless. Usually the fish will reduce the bug population to next to
nothing. Nuking the pond to get rid of bugs is almost never necessary.