permaculture

[Katey <newtribe@hughes.net>]

I got rid of my fish (they weren't for eating) because, although they 
ate the mosquito eggs, they ate the frog eggs.  The frogs were more 
important to my ecosystem.  I have sweet flag (Calamus) in my ponds for 
mosquito control as well as the frogs.

Katey Culver


Charles de Matas wrote:
> All of the permaculturists I visited since I took the PDC earlier this year 
> have ponds (large and small) and they've told me that the fish they keep 
> help to control mosquitoes.  I am thinking of putting in a few tub ponds 
> around my house to keep guppies.  Before I do this I want to check with my 
> learned friends on this list if they have had good results at controlling 
> mosquitoes with fish like guppies, or mosquito fish (gambusia, which are 
> more common in the southern US)?  If this is really effective it would make 
> life much more comfortable for me here in the tropics.
>
> Charles
> Trinidad
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