"Jim and Phyllis" <> wrote in message
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> How do they come on their own? I guess bird legs might carry them. Our
> ponds (at home and the acre farm pond on our wild property) are not
> connected to streams. The home pond is not OK for game fish. The farm
> pond is fine to stock. However, the day fish and game checks home ponds
> is far, far away!
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We think they come in as eggs on the feet or feathers of water birds or on
the moist skins of frogs. My neighbor's stock pond always seems to have a
small population of them and we're at least 3/4 miles from the lake.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. USA
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