Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Snakes in the pond

I get two kinds of snakes in the pond, "the boy it's hot I need to cool off" kind and the ones who live in the water kind. The first group usually don't eat anything in the water, but some are poisonous and seem to be seasonal, almost migratory. The second eat a small fish every other day or so, depending on the size of both. Comical to see a snake with eyes bigger than it mouth. My water is turbid so fishing by the snake is easy, but even so the water snake moves on. Like all the rest of your visitors they are part of the package. Kill them or ignore them, either way will probably not make much of a difference. I used to let them all live, but now I kill the ones I know to be poisonous. Just too many kids around the pound.