Water Gardening: What is this in my waterlilies?, 0 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
Becky, I just read your posts, and I'd love to have a hardy water lily. I understand your colorful fish attract waterfowl. I lost a bunch of pretty fish to blue herons and raccoons. If you have fish, you don't need dunks as long as you don't feed the fish too often. If you have fish, you need to provide them with a place to hide. We use drain pipes (6 inch diameter) from the hardware store.

If you put an inexpensive bubbler, mosquitos won't lay eggs in moving water. It has a little compressor that you could probably protect from the weather. You attach a small diameter clear tube, and that could be as long as you'd like, so that little compressor could be indoors. However, fish are more interesting.

It is almost 6 years since we moved into this house, and I'd bet we've bought 2 dozen fish for our small pond. We lost several in a malicious raccoon attack where they just bit off the heads and threw the bodies around. After a number of trials and errors, we took the fish out of the pond and brought them indoors. The pond, however, still has marginals, and that's where I'd like to try a water lily.

Mstella, after our experiences getting our fish inside, I'd like to see you catch the koi in your pond.