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Snake prevention
"~ jan" wrote | On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:37:55 EDT, "ReelMcKoi" wrote: | | Taste it or smell it, they'd simply go around something | like Naphtha flakes as I saw them do with my own two | eyes. They don't turn around and go back the way they came. | And why would they? I never understood how anyone | would think they'd do that. | | My guess, people who have had the opposite experience, such as this lady | has. ~ jan Pardon my ignorance but why would I want to keep snakes away from my pond? That is, if I had a pond... Mine is still in the planning stage... but I'm really close to starting it. In the meantime I've been providing a small pool just for tree frogs to breed... and they've taken advantage of it. The pool is currently teeming with tads and I feed them daily - they get as many slugs and snails and moths and other bugs as I can find, along with lots and lots of leafy green stuff, with a liberal sprinkling of dry catfood (they go nuts for this). Last year after all the tadpoles had left the pool, and I was using the last of the rainwater in it for the garden, one day I found five or six garden snakes swimming in about 4-5" of clear water. They seemed quite anxious to get out, so I caught them all and released them into the garden. These snakes are so good at mole control that I want to encourage and protect them. I'm sad to say that I occasionally kill one inadvertently while mowing. |
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Snake prevention
"Pat" wrote:
-snip- Pardon my ignorance but why would I want to keep snakes away from my pond? That is, if I had a pond... Mine is still in the planning stage... but I'm really close to starting it. In the meantime I've been providing a small pool just for tree frogs to breed... That might be the primary reason. A snake or 2 is unavoidable, but 2 snakes can lead to 100s in a few months. That might threaten your tree frog population. Jim |
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Snake prevention
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:34:07 EDT, "Pat"
wrote: Pardon my ignorance but why would I want to keep snakes away from my pond? Some do eat fish, frogs & tadpoles, some are poisonous to people. In the case of the lady my husband knows, she's terrified of all snakes, doesn't have a pond, but doesn't want any snake in her yard. I believe she is in a newer subdivision bordering the desert, so she's probably seen mostly bull snakes and maybe rattlers, before she went with her mothballs-in-a-can snake prevention. If it works for her... better than killing them, imo. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Snake prevention
"Pat" wrote in message et... "~ jan" wrote | On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:37:55 EDT, "ReelMcKoi" wrote: | | Taste it or smell it, they'd simply go around something | like Naphtha flakes as I saw them do with my own two | eyes. They don't turn around and go back the way they came. | And why would they? I never understood how anyone | would think they'd do that. | | My guess, people who have had the opposite experience, such as this l ady | has. ~ jan Pardon my ignorance but why would I want to keep snakes away from my po nd? ================= Brevity snip. Snakes will eat fish, frogs, baby ducks etc. Some water snakes are poisonous. -- RM.... Frugal ponding since 1995. rec.ponder since late 1996. Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö |
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