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Goldfish Are Threatening a Whole Colorado Lake Ecosystem (truncated)
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| 04.07.2015
| AVIANNE TAN
Posted on 04/07/2015 11:33:21 AM PDT by dware
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To: dware
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posted on
04/07/2015 2:09:01 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Louis Foxwell
Yes. In most of Colorado, such bodies of water are man made reservoirs with creeks or springs trickling into them.
42
posted on
04/07/2015 2:13:02 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: dware
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What a thug!
Goldfish are just carp, which are algae eaters. They’ll keep the lake clean.
Who cares if people want to take them?
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posted on
04/07/2015 2:21:46 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Theoria
Nothing is going to grow that big in Colorado, the water is too cold.
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posted on
04/07/2015 2:26:46 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: WellyP
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Boulder is nothing but wacked out liberals.
No intelligent life in that town.
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posted on
04/07/2015 2:29:05 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: editor-surveyor
I have seen six foot carp in the stilling basin below John Martin Resivor, Colo.
To: familyop
47
posted on
04/07/2015 8:13:55 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: dware
Starting with only 4 or 5 fish, even if only one of them is male, I think it would take at least 6 or 7 years to reach 3,000 fish.
Given the fact that females spawn several times a year, and can release thousands of eggs per spawn, it is theoretically possible for goldfish to have reproduced at a high enough rate to reach that number in two years (or even sooner). But but lakes/ponds provide far from theoretically ideal circumstances for egg laying, fertilization, hatching, and survival to adulthood of the young fish.
In the wild, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume close to 99% of the eggs released during a spawn would fail to develop in to mature fish.
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posted on
04/08/2015 10:13:38 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: Dust in the Wind
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Long ones like that are usually stuck in irrigation canals!
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49
posted on
04/08/2015 10:35:26 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Louis Foxwell
“There probably are no native species...”
Yeah, I was wondering how channel cat could be native to that pond.
50
posted on
04/08/2015 11:05:53 AM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: dware
Time to get these fish “truncated.”
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posted on
04/09/2015 2:17:31 PM PDT
by
Misterioso
(When men give up reason and freedom, the vacuum is filled by faith and force. -- Ayn Rand)
To: alloysteel
What would happen if they dumped a bunch of large mouth bass in the lake?
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posted on
04/09/2015 2:18:59 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
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