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Originally Posted by laserlight
That ponds really kewl and even in the winter. we dont have a pond and i want one but mom says it will make mosquitos. can something be put in the water that keeps mosquitos away?
Thanks for sharing the pictures and the video. =D
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The goldfish love to eat the mosquitoes- we had more mosquitoes in the back yard when it was damp and swampy than we did after I had dug up the pond and had water with fish in it. Our pond is too shallow to winter over Koi, but there are some really cool kinds of goldfish like Shebunkens. They are a lot more active (fierce swimmers) than the usual orange goldfish, and not as fragile as some of the oddly mutated big eye goldfish.
Or you can get some of the "mosquito fish" that basically look like regular brownish guppies - they get in tiny corners and roots and eat any of the mosquito wrigglers they find before they can develop and fly away.
Or get a mosquito dunk - its an enzyme thing that is a floating ring of medicine that keeps mosquitoes from developing. We toss one up in the rain gutters every year - but the fish are much more fun!
