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Thu, Jun 14, 12 at 10:00
| I think I want to hide a tub for the purpose of propagating my pond plants. Will I need to run a pump if the thing is chock full of plants? Also, is a single beta fish enough to keep mosquito larvae out of the thing? I don't want goldfish because I am afraid it will eat on my plants, and a beta seems like it won't damage much...
Any ideas on propagating tubs - or do you use your main ponds for propagating as well as display? Cheers
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- Posted by waterbug_guy Phoenix AZ (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 1:59
| No pump is needed, or even desired imo. Don't know about the beta. Mosquitofish are great for that. Or mosquito Dunks. A tub is good for lilies. For many others I just laid down a liner and some boards to form edges. Just 6-12" deepe depending on what I was growing. For marginals I kept them in regular plastic pots and just set them into the liner deal so they just had wet feet. |
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| Thanks! Perhaps then I will have two tubs - one filled for lillies and duckweed and one only partially filled for the marginals. Will the mosquito fish survive with no aeration? One reason I was thinking beta is that I know they don't need aeration pumps. Where I would like to hide these tubs is a little removed from electricity access. If I had needed pumps I was going to have to think of somewhere else to hide them. Again, thanks for your input. Cheers |
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- Posted by waterbug_guy Phoenix AZ (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 15:02
| Mosquitofish are low O2 type fish. I'd call them the gold standard of mosquito control. They do have limits, just as I'd assume Betas have limits. |
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