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Sterlets
Hi , my first post here , just a quick question.
I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda |
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I have no idea, Amanda ... but it would be helpful if you were to post where
you are - geographically speaking. Nedra "Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda |
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"Nedra" wrote in message link.net...
I have no idea, Amanda ... but it would be helpful if you were to post where you are - geographically speaking. Nedra "Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond pond shop people say "Shop people" and "sterlets" are English. -- Crashj |
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Crashj wrote:
"Nedra" wrote in message link.net... I have no idea, Amanda ... but it would be helpful if you were to post where you are - geographically speaking. Nedra "Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond pond shop people say "Shop people" and "sterlets" are English. In NA "sterlet" gets used in the aquarium trade, because they know they'll never sell "sturgeon" to people who know they get to be 6 ft. -- derek |
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"Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda I have sterlets/sturgeon in my pond, (long nosed) and they tend to stay deep, im concerned about the one dragging stuff?? do you have bad blanket weed, as sterlets can get caught up in it and "drown". fantastic fish, mine have been kept in a raised bath for 4 years (and are now in a pond half raised and half sunk) and coped well.. I feed a few sinking pellets once a week in winter (never sure if they get down to the sterlets tho..) HTH Lost |
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"Lostin1999" wrote in message ...
"Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda I have sterlets/sturgeon in my pond, (long nosed) and they tend to stay deep, im concerned about the one dragging stuff?? do you have bad blanket weed, as sterlets can get caught up in it and "drown". fantastic fish, mine have been kept in a raised bath for 4 years (and are now in a pond half raised and half sunk) and coped well.. I feed a few sinking pellets once a week in winter (never sure if they get down to the sterlets tho..) HTH Lost Thanks for the reply , one dragging stuff is a problem , constantly checking on him , yet other one is great , not a problem , no idea why one is and one isn't , dont have huge blanket weed prob. , just even if theres one bit , he will find it and drag it round , thanks for advice. Amanda. |
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"Amanda" wrote in message om... "Lostin1999" wrote in message ... "Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda I have sterlets/sturgeon in my pond, (long nosed) and they tend to stay deep, im concerned about the one dragging stuff?? do you have bad blanket weed, as sterlets can get caught up in it and "drown". fantastic fish, mine have been kept in a raised bath for 4 years (and are now in a pond half raised and half sunk) and coped well.. I feed a few sinking pellets once a week in winter (never sure if they get down to the sterlets tho..) HTH Lost Thanks for the reply , one dragging stuff is a problem , constantly checking on him , yet other one is great , not a problem , no idea why one is and one isn't , dont have huge blanket weed prob. , just even if theres one bit , he will find it and drag it round , thanks for advice. Amanda. Saw a really nice one today at the local garden centre. They have a huge new pond with a massive waterfall, and it was good to see this 3' Sterlet who was usually in a 6' metal tank swimming freely. There also had some really nice koi. Peter |
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"Amanda" wrote in message om... "Lostin1999" wrote in message ... "Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda I have sterlets/sturgeon in my pond, (long nosed) and they tend to stay deep, im concerned about the one dragging stuff?? do you have bad blanket weed, as sterlets can get caught up in it and "drown". fantastic fish, mine have been kept in a raised bath for 4 years (and are now in a pond half raised and half sunk) and coped well.. I feed a few sinking pellets once a week in winter (never sure if they get down to the sterlets tho..) HTH Lost Thanks for the reply , one dragging stuff is a problem , constantly checking on him , yet other one is great , not a problem , no idea why one is and one isn't , dont have huge blanket weed prob. , just even if theres one bit , he will find it and drag it round , thanks for advice. Amanda. Saw a really nice one today at the local garden centre. They have a huge new pond with a massive waterfall, and it was good to see this 3' Sterlet who was usually in a 6' metal tank swimming freely. There also had some really nice koi. Peter |
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"Lostin1999" wrote in message ...
"Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda I have sterlets/sturgeon in my pond, (long nosed) and they tend to stay deep, im concerned about the one dragging stuff?? do you have bad blanket weed, as sterlets can get caught up in it and "drown". fantastic fish, mine have been kept in a raised bath for 4 years (and are now in a pond half raised and half sunk) and coped well.. I feed a few sinking pellets once a week in winter (never sure if they get down to the sterlets tho..) HTH Lost Thanks for the reply , one dragging stuff is a problem , constantly checking on him , yet other one is great , not a problem , no idea why one is and one isn't , dont have huge blanket weed prob. , just even if theres one bit , he will find it and drag it round , thanks for advice. Amanda. |
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"Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Amanda, I just started adding some information on Sterlets to iheartmypond.com. I think we have a massize one site list on them, right now. LOL. Check it out, it may help. http://www.iheartmypond.com/Animals/...on/default.asp BV. |
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"Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda This weekend, one of my two 18 inch diamond sturgeons is going to cost us nearly 1,000 UKP ! Why, because he thinks he is Flipper and tail-walks... Twice we have just stopped him disappearing over the pond wall, so now we have to raise the sides with another row of fancy bricks. He insists on being hand fed prawns, worms and pieces of raw fish. He seems to ignore the genuine sturgeon food which of course the seventeen koi just love... For more information on sturgeons I would suggest you look at www.sturgeon-web.co.uk/ which is owned by a guy called Graham. Steve - UK -- Milk floats, stainless steel sinks... |
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In article , "Biker2
\(Threadstopper\)" steve at pvl dot co dot uk says... "Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda This weekend, one of my two 18 inch diamond sturgeons is going to cost us nearly 1,000 UKP ! Why, because he thinks he is Flipper and tail-walks... Twice we have just stopped him disappearing over the pond wall, so now we have to raise the sides with another row of fancy bricks. He insists on being hand fed prawns, worms and pieces of raw fish. He seems to ignore the genuine sturgeon food which of course the seventeen koi just love... For more information on sturgeons I would suggest you look at www.sturgeon-web.co.uk/ which is owned by a guy called Graham. Steve - UK -- Milk floats, stainless steel sinks... I cannot keep them in my pond for more than about a week before the local cats fish them out and carry them away. I have only ever lost one goldfish & no koi to them. The Sterlets go so quickly because they stick their noses out of the water when "grazing" at the pond's brick edges. The local cat's can't resist this & grab them. I have rescued them a couple of times but they always go eventually. They also have a tendency to swim up any pipework you have. If you can't find them (and the cats haven't got them) they are probably in your filter! Nice fish though. Pip pip -- Chris Notton Replace "nospam" with my surname to reply by email Sostituisca il "nospam" con il mio cognome per rispondere }////(* |
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I have no idea, Amanda ... but it would be helpful if you were to post where
you are - geographically speaking. Nedra "Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda |
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"Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda I have sterlets/sturgeon in my pond, (long nosed) and they tend to stay deep, im concerned about the one dragging stuff?? do you have bad blanket weed, as sterlets can get caught up in it and "drown". fantastic fish, mine have been kept in a raised bath for 4 years (and are now in a pond half raised and half sunk) and coped well.. I feed a few sinking pellets once a week in winter (never sure if they get down to the sterlets tho..) HTH Lost |
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"Amanda" wrote in message om... Hi , my first post here , just a quick question. I have 2 sterlets in my pond , which are fine and healthy(apart from one which insists on dragging half the pond round with his tail) , as i have only had them for 6 month i have no idea how to treat them over the winter months , pond shop people say treat them the same as rest of my fish , does anyone own sterlets?...any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Amanda This weekend, one of my two 18 inch diamond sturgeons is going to cost us nearly 1,000 UKP ! Why, because he thinks he is Flipper and tail-walks... Twice we have just stopped him disappearing over the pond wall, so now we have to raise the sides with another row of fancy bricks. He insists on being hand fed prawns, worms and pieces of raw fish. He seems to ignore the genuine sturgeon food which of course the seventeen koi just love... For more information on sturgeons I would suggest you look at www.sturgeon-web.co.uk/ which is owned by a guy called Graham. Steve - UK -- Milk floats, stainless steel sinks... |