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Delurk with chocolates and a question - fish and tads
"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... snip I'm not sure there are any fish that won't eat tads. We've realised that we've lost loads this year to the fish and that we have to put more over-wintering plants in to help the tads hide from the fish. We're also thinking of making a sort of 'lagoon' within the pond just for the frogs. snip We grew nice crops of froglets until the last couple of years, when our fish have presumably grown big enough to eat the tads. I have considered putting some kind of mesh barrier between the deep and shallow end of the pond with a gauge large enough to admit a tadpole but too small for a fish. However I think the result would be very much like a large bore osmotic membrane - the concentration of tads on the good and bad side would even out by random movement, and the tads would still get eaten, albeit more slowly. Has anyone designed a muzzle for fish yet? :-) Other solutions include donating our large Shubumkin to a neighbour (or the chip shop) but the smaller gold/black fish may also be big enough to lunch on Tadpole Anglaise. Anyone with a sure fire method to allow the fish and tadpoles to co-exist please tell me. Cheers Dave R |
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Delurk with chocolates and a question - fish and tads
David W.E. Roberts23/4/04 9:21
snip Anyone with a sure fire method to allow the fish and tadpoles to co-exist please tell me. We've noticed that our toads tend to lay all the spawn in one particular area of the pond which should make it easier to divide it into a no-go for fish space. Do you find that with yours? -- Sacha (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Delurk with chocolates and a question - fish and tads
"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... David W.E. Roberts23/4/04 9:21 snip Anyone with a sure fire method to allow the fish and tadpoles to co-exist please tell me. We've noticed that our toads tend to lay all the spawn in one particular area of the pond which should make it easier to divide it into a no-go for fish space. Do you find that with yours? We have frogs (and used to have newts but I didn't see them last year) but AFAIK no t0ads. Cheers Dave R |
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