Re: Goldfish color.. questions...


"Gill Passman" <gillnospamat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:442c02ef$0$1173$5a6aecb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Koi-Lo wrote:
I agree.... but to prevent wildlife from carrying GF and koi eggs to natural water and marsh habitats we would all have to net our ponds. My neighbor's stock pond is at least a mile from the lake and always has sunfish in it!!! Some water bird (or other form of wildlife) must be bringing them in.
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Without the extremes of banning people from keeping fish outside altogether as appears to be the case in Maine...I would advocate common sense.

Common sense in our land would be to make the pet stores take all the excess fish the fish they sell produce. I wouldn't know what to do with my culls if I had no access to a farm stock pond. I just found out this morning that a store in the city is buying the rest of my koi fry. :-)))) That'll empty two 150g pools out there.

Obviously it is nigh on impossible to prevent birds from carrying
eggs without as you say netting the pond there is a slight difference between these things being accidentally transported as eggs and the deliberate release of viable fish that have already reached a reasonable size....that in likelihood will have a good chance of surviving into adulthood.

This is true but no one enforces the laws where I live and people probably know it. Poaching deer here just recently stopped when new homes were built along the Corp of Engineers Land. When I'd call Wildlife about the poachers I was told they were short handed and blah, blah.... blah. I was afraid either a passing motorist, kid on a bike or myself would be shot one day. I didn't even bother to call them about seeing the fish dumped........

It is just something that I believe should be thought about before releasing "domestic fish" into the wild....where they don't belong...
I just think, rabbits/Australia and Grey Squirrels/UK...

We have problems as well with released fish in the tropical areas of Florida. We also have a problem with European Starlings and English sparrows. Idiotic people are even allowing Python snakes to escape, or maybe they released them. One ate a woman's pet poodle. Now these snakes can eat human babies to small adults when full grown. Why the heck is the Gov. allowing them to be bred and sold here?
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Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
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