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GoCubsGo

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13. More likely, their waste products will act as fertilizer.

Reply to Aussie105 (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 12:15 PM

14 hrs ago

So will their corpses, when the pool heats up during the summer, and the oxygen levels drop and they suffocate/cook. If fish were a solution to this issue, they'd already have been put there years ago.

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