Salsa by the pond and a couple videos

[pecan]

Aaahh, that explains it. I was trying to figure out that salsa since it had no cilantro. :bdaybiggrin:

Start growing some cilantro. It's not salsa without it. :chair:

It has cilantro

 

[crsublette]

Excellente. :claphands:

Now it just needs much more of it. :nananananana:

I love cilantro. :cheerful:

 

[Carolyn22]

I can almost taste it.... sooo good! Nothing like homegrown!

 

[Sheetmetalman]

I know what you mean Pecan, about the mosquito fish, last year I was fishing in the lake behind the house and watched how the schools of little shiner minnows would attack spiders or bugs that fell into the water and I thought hey I could put some of them little buggers up in my pond to go after bugs and/or mosquito larvae if there's ever any in the pond. Trouble is the little devils breed like rats on steroids, I have hundreds in there now and that's with netting some out every now and then. The good news is they are easy to catch and this variety only grows to about an inch long, oh and my bullfrogs love them--must taste like chicken, lol

 

[Carolyn22]

I know what you mean Pecan, about the mosquito fish, last year I was fishing in the lake behind the house and watched how the schools of little shiner minnows would attack spiders or bugs that fell into the water and I thought hey I could put some of them little buggers up in my pond to go after bugs and/or mosquito larvae if there's ever any in the pond. Trouble is the little devils breed like rats on steroids, I have hundreds in there now and that's with netting some out every now and then. The good news is they are easy to catch and this variety only grows to about an inch long, oh and my bullfrogs love them--must taste like chicken, lol

I didn't know they were so prolific. Good to know...

 

[crsublette]

Yeah, mosquito fish, also called Gambusia, are quite interesting. The female Gambusia are mature enough within 6~8 weeks to reproduce and reproduce every 3 weeks in batches of around 20~100 new gambusia. This fish is extremely prolific since they are live bearers, that is they doe not lay eggs to reproduce, but they have an extremely short life spane of something like 2~3 years. Although, they make up for the short lifespan by reproducing extremely fast.

A nice benefit to them is they will keep your frogs fed well so they do not go after your goldies!! :cheerful:


Here is a pdf backup I made of a website that had a good explanation of it, but, unfortunately and apparently, the website no longer exists anymore. So here it is in PDF. I backup everything I read in PDF.

 

[addy1]

I had mosquito fish in my arizona pond, they used to swim up the stream, it was fun to watch them.

Here I have rosey reds, they have not been real prolific, but doing ok

 

[rebelangel_3733]

Looking awesome as ever pecan!!! I also made 14 pint jars of salsa/spicy tom tj yesterday...tis the season!