Water Gardening: Snake in my Koi Pond !!! Help !!!, 1 by suzannetye

suzannetye wrote:
Hello, we just recently moved to Georgia. We have a nice backyard pond with 10 Koi in it. They are all about 6". I also got 3 Albino Bullfrog tadpoles. Then this weekend we were SHOCKED to find a 3 foot long water snake in our pond !! It has semi-circular markings...........orange with black outlines, against a sort of beighish backgroung. The horrible thing ATE my tadpoles, AND he might have eaten two of my fish, I'm not certain. We've tried catching him but he's too quick for us. He only shows up at night. HELP !! Is there any Good Samaratan out there who can help me figure out how to get rid of this snake AND keep other snakes from snacking on my Koi ?? ( the snake didn't eat any of the little goldfish I have in the pond ! ) By the way, does anyone have any idea what kind of snake this might be ??