Water Gardening: Your Pond Pictures, Please!!!!, 1 by playsndirt

playsndirt wrote:
My swimming pool liner pond--its now full of rice slicks (minnows?) from across the street that Im afraid will shred my gold fish when they mature in a year or two--but on the other hand the goldfish are multipling way too fast and its hard to figure out how to cull literally hundreds of minnows the size of dimes. A few are the size of nickels and look for all the world like bass, but im not an ichologist either so? Then theres the snakes---since Im in the south, cotton mouths are part of the neighborhood, but what can you say---have water--have food---have cover--have snakes. Most of the water snakes i have encountered have turned out to be the "musky" kind--and even garter snakes swim, but everytime I have to wade in to do some work--they all turn into anacondas in my head.