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Message: [QUOTE="mgmine, post: 320970, member: 5552"] "What is ridiculous though, is that when we built our trout pond, we not only had to apply for a license to posses them, but we also had to jump through many hoops to be approved for that license." [B]Yep we have the same mentality here in the form of the EPA. Everything is regulated even if it's only a summer puddle that will be gone in a few months. When I installed my pond the inspector had to go to his boss to determine if I had to get a license from the EPA.[/B] "The point is, people seem to take too much care in raising them in private ponds while the ones that are released to live in all kinds of ‘un natural to koi’ conditions - and survive long harsh winters in lakes that experience early ice up in up to -40 Celcius weather, and where no human is around to withhold their diet of aquatic insects, snails, trout fry, algae etc. - fare extremely well. It seems that they are perfectly capable of monitoring their own diet." [B]Yep again. I've mentioned this a few times in the last few months. It seems that so much time is spent on worrying about the fish that they become a problem and not a pleasure. My advise has been to just let them be. Forget testing and above all forget all the remedies that are found in the internet. Let nature take care of the fish. As I pointed out in one thread, what are you going to do if your fish do get sick (or in your opinion are sick because you read something that seems to confirm it), are you going to take them to the vet? Fish die and I'm convinced that many of them die because the owner tried something that they read on line. By the way your have a beautiful pond.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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