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| first off, my fish said they've got their bags packed and will be booking a ticket out to visit next winer:) as for the raccoons, try not to make the surrounding landscape inviting. i.e. flat beach-like areas level to the water surface make a nice inviting place for them to scope out your fish. also shallow ledges in your pond will be nice spots to wade into, so you may want to make the surrounding edges at least 1 ft deep. if you want to put marginal plants on the ledge you can always elevate them with stone. granted with all of this your design plans may not facilitate it. fish can be pretty good at avoiding ground predators so i'd be more concerned w/ birds (especially if you'll have bright colored fish). herons, cranes, etc. are probably the biggest threat. you can use ornaments or decoys to keep them at bay (think scarecrows). a fake heron plastic ornament (birds are territorial so they may think the area has already been "claimed"), maybe even a plastic alligator ornament, etc. could do the trick. they make motion sensor sprinklers which deter predators. the surefire bet would be a net covering the pond. this can be unsightly sometimes. i've seen a "grid" of fishing line run across the surface to keep birds from swooping down. for all of these predators the best defense you can give your fish is a place to hide (floating plants, a little cove, some stacked bricks to hide under, etc.)
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There is a certain heron that occasionally visits the open space so I'll probably put "owls" by the pond. I have read a book that said that really works. (It freaks them out like crazy)
Jfish13:)_________________________________
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20 Gallon: 3 Cherry Barbs, 1 Female Betta, 2 Peppered Corydoras', 1 Siamese Algae Eater, 3 Oto Catfish's, and Platies.
5 Gallon Tank: 1 Goldfish (which is moving to a big pond soon!) and 1 very aggressive female betta. Visit my Pinned Topic: http://board.fishchannel.com/Topic145859-31-1.aspx
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Noooo, a calico telescope goldie could most definitely not survive with comets and shubunkins. It's body and fin structure make it impossible to swim as fast as they do. It's eyes also inhibit it's vision, making it not as good as the commet and shubunkin. Each of these problems makes it hard for the telescope to compete for food, and there is a good chance of fishy starvation  p.s- I have a calico telscope goldie tooooo! what's yours name?
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Now how about fantails? and also koi?
Jfish13:)_________________________________
My Fish Tanks:
20 Gallon: 3 Cherry Barbs, 1 Female Betta, 2 Peppered Corydoras', 1 Siamese Algae Eater, 3 Oto Catfish's, and Platies.
5 Gallon Tank: 1 Goldfish (which is moving to a big pond soon!) and 1 very aggressive female betta. Visit my Pinned Topic: http://board.fishchannel.com/Topic145859-31-1.aspx
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