John (and other ng readers)

I have been wondering about my situation of no koi babies and mosquito
control by gambusia.

I gather you have koi babies. Do you also have gambusia? If not, how do
you control your mosquitos? If you have gambusia, how many do you have? I
have lots of them and zero baby goldfish or koi. On the other hand, I have
lots of baby platies and baby gambusia. Do you think carp are especially
vulnerable to becoming gambusia food?

Any suggestions on how to be baby koi friendly and have mosquito control?

Thanks for your thoughts

Jim

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P & JH,
I have gambusa in my ponds and did also have Koi frys. How you ask?

I bought a small 200 +/- gallons preformed pond (Rubbermaid livestock
watering trough) to move my koi eggs into right after spawning! The eggs
were attached to my Water Hyacinth roots, and pennyworth roots.

Voila, here comes baby koi in gambusa free water. The frys are now ready
and big enough to be put back into the pond with the gambusa.

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"Phyllis and Jim Hurley" wrote in
message ...
John (and other ng readers)

I have been wondering about my situation of no koi babies and mosquito
control by gambusia.

I gather you have koi babies. Do you also have gambusia? If not, how do
you control your mosquitos? If you have gambusia, how many do you have?
I
have lots of them and zero baby goldfish or koi. On the other hand, I
have
lots of baby platies and baby gambusia. Do you think carp are especially
vulnerable to becoming gambusia food?

Any suggestions on how to be baby koi friendly and have mosquito control?

Thanks for your thoughts

Jim

--
____________________________________________
Check out Jog-A-Thon fundraiser (clears $140+ per jogger) at:
www.jogathon.net
See our pond at: http://www.home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-jameshurley

Phyllis and Jim Hurley wrote:
John (and other ng readers)

I have been wondering about my situation of no koi babies and mosquito
control by gambusia.

I gather you have koi babies. Do you also have gambusia? If not, how do
you control your mosquitos? If you have gambusia, how many do you have? I
have lots of them and zero baby goldfish or koi. On the other hand, I have
lots of baby platies and baby gambusia. Do you think carp are especially
vulnerable to becoming gambusia food?

Any suggestions on how to be baby koi friendly and have mosquito control?

Thanks for your thoughts

Jim



-- hooo boy I dunno
no I dont have gambusia, but I do have lots of lily's and string algae
( it may be that as my pond is so big a whole heck of a lot of SA
doesnt look to bad ) any how there are plenty of hiding places in the
algae there is probly enough algae in there to fill a 700 gal pond

now as far as skeeters I had them here before i built the pond, I
havent seen any since I put the pond in, there are hundreds of damsel
flys and quite a few dragon flys around all the time so hundreds of
larvae in the pond, lots of other life forms too so somebody is
doing a great job of eating mosquitos and thier larvae





John Rutz
Z5 New Mexico

never miss a good oportunity to shut up

see my pond at:

http://www.fuerjefe.com

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:27:48 -0500, "Phyllis and Jim Hurley"
wrote:

I have been wondering about my situation of no koi babies and mosquito
control by gambusia.

I gather you have koi babies. Do you also have gambusia? If not, how do
you control your mosquitos?

If you have enough surface flow the larvae will get sucked away, they are
very fragile and don't handle skimmers and/or waterfalls well. Goldfish &
koi both eat larvae & eggs, plus all the critters John mentioned. ~ jan

See my ponds and filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

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Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a
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