On Mar 8, 9:48*am, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-03-08 08:44:03 +0000, "Bob Hobden" said:









"Doug" *wrote ...

I thought fish were supposed to gobble them up? Since reading this
newsgroup I had given up hope of seeing them in that pond again. Maybe
my Shubunkins are too small to eat newts and are just eating a few
pellets at the moment, which seem to be about as big as they can
swallow. Maybe only bigger fish eat newts?

Last year I had a newt which was almost as big as my fish.
Unfortunately it tangled in my fountain impeller which had become
accidentally exposed. It can't happen again. Also last year I had lots
of baby newts.

Also, a cat tangled with my electric fence last night and sped off out
of my garden so fast you could hardly follow it on CCTV. Still no
foxes though.

You are feeding your fish at this time?
Is the water temperature where you live over 50°F? My pond is still
well below that.

I haven't checked the water temp but our fish are hungry and rush
across the pond to the food we chuck in. We put only a little in at
this time of year but they obviously need it. *It helps keep them away
from the frogspawn, too!

Yes I am feeding my fish a little, which they are consuming, to avoid
them eating my newts, etc. The fish are very shy and don't appear when
I am around but I don't mind them keeping themselves safe. I check
them out on my CCTV. The only time I don't feed them is when there is
ice on the pond.

I had frogspawn one year before I had fishes but no tadpoles resulted
and I don't know what ate them and no tadpoles since.

Doug.