[whiskyb]

My weekly maintenance involves cleaning out the filter. Besides that if we have alot of wind I will use a pool skimmer to clean off the surface. My filter would eventually get it all but my fish are use to me feeding them, once as I was walking by and they thought they were being fed the feeding frenzy started. One poor fella thought a pine needle was food and tried to inhale it. Swam around looking like a little marlin for a few hours and finally spit it out. We do not have children so it is not fenced, it is about 10' away from a running creek and 1000' from Georgian Bay so their are lots of hazards around.