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Man wins over beast!
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:20:40 CST, Galen Hekhuis
wrote: When Bob was around the whole pond was quiet, but wound up tight like a coiled spring. Now frogs are sitting around on lily pads, tadpoles are swimming, bugs are buzzing, the whole place seems much happier and more relaxed. The whole place seems less tense. I have a similar story. When we started up the new filter on the lily pond, many of the tadpoles slipped thru the bottom drain into the pre-filter. I figured this was good, they were safe there. They could climb out when the time came, can't get sucked into pump, and most of all, away from the fish I was putting in the pond. Several days after I put in 3 fantails and 4 wakins, my son informs me that one of the fantails is in the pre-filter. I net him out and find only 1 or 2 tadpoles. :-( Next day, a few more tadpoles show up so I figure the fish didn't get them all. Later that same day, fantail is again in the prefilter, no tadpoles to be seen. So back to the stock tank, no more chasing tadpoles. The next morning I check the pre-filter to make sure no one else has taken the ride, and tons of tadpoles and little froglets, swimming and hanging out. So I think they must have hidden in the muck at the bottom while that fantail was in there... tense! I can't find a single taddie in the pond, unless I disturb some of the thicker SA I was hoping to remove. Guess I'll wait on that. So far the fish are happy, and no one had turned up missing by flight. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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