Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions

[Steev Ward <steevward@yahoo.com>]

    I try to take every precaution against racoon assaults, but I just lost one 
10 inch
koi yesterday. I was keeping him in a large tub, with a lid, because he seemed 
skinnier
than the rest and I left the lid off so I could watch and see if he was eating 
his
food. I forgot to put it back on before I went to bed and the next day he was 
in pieces
on the lawn.
     It guess it takes something like that to remind me to not take chances 
when it
comes to raccoons.

Steev


--- Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com> wrote:

> > What keeps raccoons out of ponds are steep sides.  They can't put a paw in
> > the shallows to brace themselves when leaning out to snatch fish.  A shelf
> > along the edge would provide that place to brace themselves.
> 
> Luckily, I think my stock tanks are high enough off the ground so that
> raccoon incursions are unlikely...even with some bonus shelf space for
> marginal/bog plants on the edges. And they are deep enough so not even the
> largest raccoon could ever reach the bottom (unless they came with dive
> gear). Even with my little mini-ponds at my old house where raccoons were
> MUCH more obvious, they never got into the goldfish. Those ponds were as
> high as the usual whiskey barrel. Stock ponds are much higher when you get
> into the 100 - 150g sizes.  One of the primary reasons I prefer above
> ground ponds...GEESE. These above ground mini-ponds are high enough to
> keep my domestic geese out. And I have to let the geese into the area
> where my ponds are to do the mowing chores (so I don't have to!).
> 
> Maybe I'm setting myself up for disaster by saying these things......(frown)
> 
> Betty Goetz
> 
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