turtles and water lilies

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• Subject: turtles and water lilies
• From: "Jan Fidrmuc" <J.Fidrmuc at kub_nl>
• Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:42:12 MET

> We just planted 3 water lillies two days ago.  I found a dozen stems 
> neatly snipped off and floating in the water this afternoon.   We have 
> gold fish in the pound and a turtle set up housekeeping about a month 
> ago.  It was my understanding that gold fish do not harm water lillies.  
> Could the turtle be the culprit.  (We pulled the water lillies out of 
> the pound and they are now in buckets until we can determine who/what is 
> doing them in.)  Thanks.

You don't specify what kind of turtle you have  - probably red-eared 
slider. I am pretty much sure the turtle is the culprit - they 
sometimes eat plants and even more often they just damage them while swimming 
around the pond/tank. 

Jan

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Jan Fidrmuc
CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
P.O.Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, phone: +31-13-466-8221, fax: +31-13-466-3066
Email: Fidrmuc at KUB_NL.
http://cwis.kub.nl/~few5/center/phd_stud/fidrmuc/home.HTM
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