Take a read of this email I received this morning from a visitor to my water gardening website ... a spine-chilling tale of a frog and a fish.
"I went into the garden today and a frog had attached itself to the face of a Koi with it's 'hands' (pushed up to the elbows) embedded into the eye sockets of the fish, this could either be the frog trying to mate or possibly trying to keep warm (all the other frogs and toads huddle together on the bottom of the pond). I did manage to get it off the fish but I will have to wait until the morning to see if the Koi is still alive, and there is a high probability that it has damaged the sight of the fish ... I have allowed frogs and toads into my Koi pond but tomorrow they will find themselves homeless ... because removing the frogs arms from my Koi's eye sockets was worse than childbirth (I'm sorry if this is rather graphic) .... in my opinion they do not mix, amphibians also bring a lot of parasites and diseases."
"I think more pond owners should be aware of the downside to encouraging wildlife if they have expensive fish."
Kind regards
Lorraine
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2 comments:
You should take Photos of this is sounds like it could be kwite interesting to see.
I have emailed Lorraine to see if she took photo.
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