RE: habitat and ponds

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• To: g*@hort.net
• Subject: RE: [CHAT] habitat and ponds
• From: "Donna " j*@prairieinet.net
• Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:09:02 -0500
• In-reply-to: B762AE32-AB3C-11D7-9B74-000A959AC6B4@rnet.com

Mine are a good size now, so they eat everything! Marginal plants are
getting scarce, dig up the lilies all the time. Also like watermelon,
oranges, peas, strawberries.. well, just about anything. In the spring I
have thousands of tadpoles... and you can see the koi sucking them up
like a vacuum cleaner. I think once they get bigger, they don't. Just
when they are babies.

I bought them as 2-3" babies... now 3-4ft. They were raised on cheerios,
guessing there is something to the commercials....

Donna
Who gets very strange looks when the cheerios go on sale and I purchase
24 boxes....

> 
> Koi eat tadpoles? Never realized. DH regularly "rescues" leopard and
> bullfrogs from the pond sieves in the fall. I regularly have to
monitor
> houseplants I have had out for the summer (when I bring them in) for
> tree frogs that have burrowed into the pots. My favorite snake story
is
> the brown Northern Water Snake that convinced itself it was well
> camouflaged lying in a clump of bright green prairie dropseed!
> Cathy

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