On Feb 28, 8:48*am, "sweetheart" hotmail.com wrote:
"sweetheart" hotmail.com wrote in message

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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2011-02-27 07:37:00 +0000, "sweetheart" hotmail.com said:

I really think you're trying to over-manage your pond. *Leave it alone
and it will balance itself out. *How can you kill off one species because
you prefer another? *It's a strange approach, imo.
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Well my husband would like me to get rid of the pond altogether. Now that
would be over management wouldn't it? *I am fighting to save it. Without
frogs and newts my husband reckons its nothing more than an eyesore which
attracts flies and nothing more. *he wants to cut it all down, the grass,
the trees , everything. Since its close to the house, that's an important
factor. *But I like the pond.

All widlife needs somewhere to lurk. ie Hide from predators. The
predators never get them all or the predators would all die out. They
just nab the weakest. Darwin.