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Gardening

csziggy

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5. I put cheap goldfish into my cement water troughs

Reply to in2herbs (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 19, 2021, 11:58 PM

Apr 2021

And the little pond next to my house (actually a 300 gallon water trough with a 100 gallon syrup vat (fiber glass mold of one). I buy the "feeder" gold fish, really cheap ones and dump them in in the spring if it looks as though the herons and the raccoons have fished out too many.

The fish not only eat most of the mosquito larvae, they also eat algae and keep the troughs cleaner.

Fish will not live in the galvanized water troughs. Mine are cement and plastic, so the fish do fine.

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