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[Ponds-Koi] Help please! - Fish eating poisoned fireants filing into wate…

In a message dated 7/8/2008 7:55:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, shelties@suddenlink.net writes:
A well-intentioned relative found a huge fireant mound near the top of my waterfall and sprayed it with ant killer after he was bit by one. When I heard this, I ran out to find […]

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Help please! - Fish eating poisoned fireants filing into waterfall - advise?

A well-intentioned relative found a huge fireant mound near the top of my waterfall and sprayed it with ant killer after he was bit by one. When I heard this, I ran out to find my Koi and goldfish in a feeding frenzy on all these fireants that escaped into […]

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[AquaticLife] New Member Into & Request for Help

First… sorry about your loss.
Second, when repopulating your pond, please do not get any Koi. They grow much too large for a mini-pond like yours.. and the ones I’ve had. Koi need at least a 2,000G pond for just a couple of Koi. They grow to 3′+ in length and are big-time […]

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[AquaticLife] All natural fish treatments?

Question - can otocincluses (sp?) and pgmy coradoras tolerate aquarium salt, and if so, how much? Can they tolerate four tablespoons of salt to 10 gallons instead of two? How about in increasing increments?
Something I read on salt for ich said many catfishes can’t tolerate salt.
Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com

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29 Gallon Community Tank

Steve - I understand what you’re saying about mollies, but perhaps you missed the beginning of this thread (which I’ve deleted to save space, but is still attached in the group messages). I initiated the question because most sources were saying the same thing that […]

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FWC - How much, how often ?

I just pull the hose off my fountain and let the pump mump out my ware. I also use the water being pumped out to rince out my filter media so as not to kill the bacteria on the pads with chlorinaeed tap water. To refill I put a couple tablespoons of Wardly dechlorinator that […]

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29 Gallon Community Tank

Hi Lenny - Thanks for the quick response! The message you’re thinking of wasn’t from me - I just joined about three weeks ago, and this was my first post. I do get the compiled digest of e-mails once a day - I thought that included all of the posts, but maybe […]

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