>
> > My bees love that pond over all others --- he salts the water heavily as
> it a treatment for fungal diseases in the expensive and delicate oversize
> goldfish.
>

The above is an interesting observation John, so  I checked a koi website
on the practice.
From http://www.koiandponds.com/salt_tables.htm, the recommended
"indefinite" treatment salt concentration is
0.2%-0.4%--about 1.6 to 3.2 pounds of salt per 100 gallons of water.

This is not far from the 0.5% often recommended in the bee literature as
being attractive to honey bees.
As I posted recently, a tsp of salt weighs 5.69 g; a gallon of water 3785
g, so a 0.5% solution would be 3.3 tsp/gal.
A 0.3% solution, midway in the koi range, would be 2 tsp/gal




-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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