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Re: RE: s: Fish

A pond without fish can be quite natural! It will be loaded with frogs and toads which can come there on there own. There will be salamanders, too. Dragonflies will breed there. Wonderful insect eaters. All will come on their own (Build it and they will come). Fish eat frog and toad eggs, so their numbers will be limited if you add fish of any kind. I turned my swimming pool into a frog pond, and I can say the sound of the frogs through the spring and summer is fabulous. If you are worried about mosquitoes breeding, use fathead minnows, gambusia, or mosquito dunks.
No koi pond could give me the symphony I have from my frog pond!
Lynn
Gardening WITH Nature

At 07:52 PM 3/14/2003, you wrote:
As one who does not have a pond, but keeps working toward that goal,
I'd like to know what type of hardy fish ARE OK to use?  A pond
without fish can't become a working ecosystem, from what I've read.
So, if carp/goldfish are not suitable, what is?  Koi are not
something I'm interested in.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: GardenLit@aol.com
>
> Koi? Same as goldfish in terms of ecological damage, maybe worse.
>
> Check out Australian policy on carp.
http://www.asl.org.au/asl_poldoc_carp.htm
>
> In addition to being nasty bottom feeders that muddies water which
leads to
> eutrophication, they are vectors for disease.
>
> Google search of ecological damage of koi resulted in 485 hits.
Even the
> Chinese are worried.

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