Minnows
We decided that we probably needed fish in the pond to keep down the mosquito larvae, so we went to the pet store to pick up some minnows or something small. This particular pet store specializes in fish (they have some large, surly-looking piranha in the front in a tank, with a reminder not to put your hand in there) and this fish, as big as my arm, named "Jill". Jill was very lively, possibly because I looked like someone who might feed her.
This activity meant all the pictures of her came out blurry, as my camera doesn't like low light. Eventually she might reach 300 lbs, and will need a larger tank.
Anyway, we found the right tank full of half-inch long gray fish and bought fifty of them, and brought them home and released them in the pond, where they swam around merrily for about two hours before disappearing into cracks and the roots of the sea lettuce and hyacinths. The frogs were apparently unimpressed, or perhaps they just waited until we went to bed to eat some of them, because today I have seen only a couple of minnows here and there.
I'm thinking cats are the easier pets here.
won't the frogs eat the mosquitoes? when they've finished off the minnows, of course!!!!
ReplyDeleteyour soon to be 300 lb kitty fish is gorgeous!! look at those red fins!!
Kitty of Serious Stripes is adorable, too. I don't want her to be jealous of George!!
Well, the snake seems to be eating the frogs, after the frogs ate the minnows (though we have some baby minnows), and something went wading in the pond last night and pulled out one of the bubblers. Luckily for Jill the Fish she is the pet of the Pet Store, and not mine, or she would have been sushi for whatever went fishing last night. I have too much wildlife! :o And George is always fabulous!
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