No idea

[JoaniePA]

I came home from work today and the plants were upended, hyacinths upside down all over the pond, leaves and twigs in there, no one would come up to eat, and one of my fish is dying... cannot use the fins on one side of its body. something was in there terrorizing everyone, but I know not who or what.GRRRR!

 

[sissy]

You may need to get a camera .I bought the one from harbor freight with night vision I bought the black and white with the monitor for now just to see how it works out and hooked it up to a old vcr I had and seems to work pretty good .I think it was 30 dollars when I bought it on sale .Was just going to use the cheapy one for the driveway but found it worked pretty decent .

 

[addy1]

Love our dvr setup, one way we have managed to catch the herons trying to snack on sushi and learn how to protect against them

 

[JoaniePA]

addy.. is it motion triggered? I might have to look into something like this.

 

[addy1]

addy.. is it motion triggered? I might have to look into something like this.

Check costco, I watched for their on line sales of the systems.

You can set it up to record all of the time, record just with motion, or just with sound. I have it with motion, when it is windy it is recording a lot. But if the hard drive gets full it just records over. Holds about a month to two depending on how windy we have been. The camera that is catching motion goes to a full screen picture on the tv to catch your attention, anytime one flashes (if I notice lol) I check to see what caused the camera to trigger. esp down by the pond,

Still have not seen the great blue heron this year stop by. Maybe the gator heads are doing their job.........or there is enough rain this year to keep their normal feeding spots full. or it will stop by at some time........... Last year it came to visit in july and stayed, coming every day. Just got one fish, then had to eat yard bugs since it could not get to the fish. I only have chicken wire up around the edges so it can't walk in, nothing over the pond right now.

 

[JoaniePA]

Wow.. I looked at the dvrs online and the setup is very expensive!

That said, something is trying to get my fish so I may have to take action and get one! The fish I thought was dying has rebounded and is now feeding gustily with the others. He does have a wound on his side, but it seems to be healing well. The little baby fish who were about 2 inches long, however, have disappeared completely since the incident. I had about five of them. Still have itsy bitsies.. about 1/2 inch long.

I have a friend who rolls up netting around the periphery of her pond and tucks it into the plantings. It seems to work well for her. She lost all her fish a few years ago, but none since she's done this. The only thing I worry about there is having the frogs, toads, birds etc tangle up in it. How high is the chicken wire you use?

 

[addy1]

The chicken wire is two foot, I have it so it is up off the ground for the frogs etc to have access. The only thing that has bothered our pond is the heron, the chicken wire keeps it from being able to walk in and snack. So far this year, the green heron came twice, smaller bird, had to make sure it could not walk the bog wall.

Ow no heron, this year yet, I even took down the piece of fence I had going over the top of the pond, got tired of it being there for, at this time, no reason. But I put it back when we leave town. It keeps the heron from being able to fly in.

You can pick up a ip camera, a single camera that transmits to your computer via wifi. It sends pictures with movement, around 79 dollars or so. They are day / night capable. The picture is not as nice as a wired camera, you can wire it so you don't depend on the wifi.

 

[McKool]

You can string fishing line above the pond either in lines or checkerd fashion as it'snot as obtrusive to see - I jhve mine running between the top of the wood fence and the post of the swing, since we're not 6'ers, wife nd I can both walk under the line - seems to have worked as I've not noticed any visitors in 3-4 years - know on wood.

McKool