Re: water garden

There's a saying about "shooting fish in a barrel", but I'd hardly expect
kingfishers to dive into a whiskey barrel.  Much more likely is predation
by racoons, cats, and other mammals...

The great virtue of mosquito fish [Gambusia] is that they are too small or
too cryptically colored to attract herons and roacoons.  I tried goldfish
and juvenile carp in my small garden pond and had racoons in the pond
every night, before a heron put an end to the project.  After going to
Gambusia, there've been no such incursions.  

Also, a small container can be subject to great swings in water
temperature.  Gambusia tolerate these changes in temperature very well.


loren russell, corvallis, oregon
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