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<P><p><strong><font size="6">Predator Controls</font></strong></p>
<p>As we get un-welcome visitors to our pond, our fish magically dissapear. These products will help control these Pond Predators either by scaring them off with a blast of water, a decoy to confuse them, or netting to fustrate them. </p>
<p><strong><img height="200" src="https://store.nexternal.com/tjb/images/bald_eagle%20photo.jpg" width="300" align="left" border="5" /><font size="4">Fish Decoys</font></strong> are fake fish which you float just under the surface of the water so the predators will go after them first giving your real fish time to take cover and hide. They work best in ponds with a surface current which causes the fish decoy to look like it is swimming making them a prime target for the predators. They can still be used in stagnet ponds but are more efficient when wiggling.</p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Pond Netting</font> </strong>is sort of a last resort. By spreading the netting over the pond surface, the predator will get fustrated, possibly tangled, and then want to leave. <strong>Note:</strong> Blue Herons & Egrets can still strike your fish through the holes in the netting. Your fish may die from the stab wounds, but the bird will not be able to eat the fish because it will be unable to lift it past the netting. If possible, install the netting so it is 1'-2' off the pond surface. It will not look preety, but your fish will be safer.</p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Alligator Decoys</font></strong> work well with Migratory Predator Birds. Herons & Egrets are eaten by alligators in the southern states. As these birds migrate to the north in the summer months, they are very wary of being attacked by an alligator so alligator decoys will have some sucess with these birds.</p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Blue Herons</font></strong> are very large birds (<em><font color="#0000ff">see photo below left</font></em>) & territorial by nature. They will not feed if another heron is present. The <strong>Blue Heron</strong> is capable of killing and eating very large fish (<em><font color="#0000ff">see photo below right</font></em>). An adult Heron can remove & eat 1 ten inch fish per minute out of your pond. Our <strong>Heron Decoy</strong> when installed by your pond, will confuses an overflying heron into beliving that another heron is feeding on your pond and will fly on to where there is no competitor to fight with. </p>
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<p><font color="#800000">When using the <strong>Heron Decoy</strong>, make sure to move it different locations around your pond every few days otherwise the smart real heron will relize your heron is a fake and poses no harm. The real heron will soon land and feed next to your decoy. (This happened to us in our <strong>TJB-INC Display Gardens</strong>). A hungry heron, can clean your pond of your prized fish in very short order. We have found that a combination of decoy products has been successful most of the times. </font></p>
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<p><font color="#800000"><font color="#000080"><font size="4"> </font><strong><font size="4">NOTE</font>:</strong> <strong>There are times when you will get a brave and determined predator who decides your fish taste good and nothing is going to stop it short of killing it! (Sorry, but it's the truth)</strong></font> </font></p>
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