Pond's overpopulated now; what to do with all the new little goldfish?

[ADHDiy_Guy]

Maybe our replies with resources and links won’t change Marion’s mind, and maybe she keeps destroying her local ecosystems by releasing her extras - but then in that case, my comments are for the next uninformed but open minded hobbyist who finds their way to this thread from a Google search. Or maybe someone asks ChatGPT what they can do when they have too many fish and ChatGPT scours the internet and pulls its answer from this forum thread, and hopefully we can drown out Marion’s dangerous comments.

I saw somewhere that Marion777 mentioned they have been a pond keeper for 55+ years, and heavens knows that the hobby (and world) has had some massive changes to what information is considered generally acceptable by community standards. Her comments could be a portal to some past legacy knowledge, or lack of available knowledge (at the time).

Cornell University did an interesting psych study on internet trolling, and instead of finding groups of individuals who were consistently internet trolls, they found that most everyone who participates in online social media has “trolling” moments, often relating to specific trigger topics, or concentrated into a window of time like they were having a bad day or week.

I tend to default to the idea of Hanlon’s Razor - "Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance.”



Did I spend way too much time and energy on this comment? Absolutely I did.
Do I regret it? Probably.
Will I learn to let things like this go moving forward? Probably not

 

[j.w]

She is destructive to new pond owners as they come here and read her outlandish ways of taking care of her pond and breaking the law of spreading fish to local lakes and rivers etc. We will all just have to keep letting others that join that this is not the way to do things. Provide new people w/good information and hope they will just ignore her. Maybe she is ill and having some brain problems and can't help herself?
I will pray for her and her poor fish that keep getting shocked every time she totally redoes the pond each year.

 

[GBBUDD]

Find a stream, river or park pond near u & let em go. I have about 7 large koi & 20 granddaddy goldies that are pretty big. I drop the babies in the river each year. Inky thing in it is gross Carp & a few
Mud catfish & the river is huge w lots of huge fallen trees in it for them to hide. Can u imagine some sweet little boys face in 10 yrs when he’s fishing along the edges (which they do here in the country) & pullin in a beautiful 18 inch goldfish instead of a disgusting bugeyed Carp!? He’d be pretty Xcited I’d imagine. The pet store uses them to feed other prey, so at least this way they prob have an 90-95% chance of surviving rather than a big fat ZERO at the pet store…. Some will disagree but that’s ok. A few goldfish aren't gonna disrupt anything…. I’m sure there will still be plenty of carp for u “advocates” out there…

THIS WILL PUT YOU IN JAIL


EVEN IF YOU RELEASE A NATIVE SPECIECE TO YOUR AREA.

The most humane way to end fish a fishes life when all other avenues are exhausted is to catch them transfer them to a plastic bag and place them in the freezer. As the temp drops they will go into the winter state of sleep untill the temp drops below freezing ending their sleep.

 

[GBBUDD]

She is destructive to new pond owners as they come here and read her outlandish ways of taking care of her pond and breaking the law of spreading fish to local lakes and rivers etc. We will all just have to keep letting others that join that this is not the way to do things. Provide new people w/good information and hope they will just ignore her. Maybe she is ill and having some brain problems and can't help herself?
I will pray for her and her poor fish that keep getting shocked every time she totally redoes the pond each year.

Not to slam Marian but maybe we should just have @addy1 remove the post so any future lazy readers like my self don't just read the one post saying that's a great idea

 

[GBBUDD]

Find a stream, river or park pond near u & let em go. I have about 7 large koi & 20 granddaddy goldies that are pretty big. I drop the babies in the river each year. Inky thing in it is gross Carp & a few
Mud catfish & the river is huge w lots of huge fallen trees in it for them to hide. Can u imagine some sweet little boys face in 10 yrs when he’s fishing along the edges (which they do here in the country) & pullin in a beautiful 18 inch goldfish instead of a disgusting bugeyed Carp!? He’d be pretty Xcited I’d imagine. The pet store uses them to feed other prey, so at least this way they prob have an 90-95% chance of surviving rather than a big fat ZERO at the pet store…. Some will disagree but that’s ok. A few goldfish aren't gonna disrupt anything…. I’m sure there will still be plenty of carp for u “advocates” out there…

Got to realize why some animals breed 10's of thousands of eggs and fertilization is to send a cloud over the area. And why others have a more direct and singular way of reproduction. Some breeds are prey usualy the 10,000 eggs at a time while the predictors are only a couple. It's life fish survival rate is very small thus why the charge sooooooi much for colorful koi that are. 3 feet long.

 

[Lisak1]

but then in that case, my comments are for the next uninformed but open minded hobbyist who finds their way to this thread from a Google search

This right here is the sole reason I comment when I see old, outdated, controversial or plain old bad information - someone somewhere will do exactly that and think "oh GREAT IDEA!" Hopefully they will read far enough to see the consenting views.

I once googled a pond question and found an EXCELLENT answer on this very forum, and then realized "OH! I wrote that!" haha!

 

[Lisak1]

DISSENTING IS WHAT I MEANT! Ha. Now I’m @GBBUDD with the all caps.

 

[GBBUDD]

I admit I am no typest if I could use speak to text here the problem of caps would be solved but a deeper dive into how I think would be the result. Pick your poison

 

[Lisak1]

I use text to type here all the time.

 

[GBBUDD]

You don't sound like Kermit the frog and when you say windy it comes up in type as x mass

 

[Lisak1]

It’s gotta be that strange accent that you have. Happy to live in the Midwest where we are accent free. Ha ha ha ha ha.