Hi all
Ok I'll start by explaining what happened.
I built my first pond (small 600lts) about 18 months ago.
I've had my ups and downs but my little pond is really healthy and this summer (UK London) the fish started mating and one fish was being hassled (in a romantic way lol) by two males (all goldfish)
I observed and read up on this forum and found all the answer I ever needed, Thanks by the way.
The female then did her bit and the males did there bit, I just left them to it but I noticed that one of the big fish, we call her "big fat sue" cos she eats everything, including the eggs. So we thought that was the end of that.
But here's the amazing part, the pond had imo to much oxygenating plants so I used a net and took some out and put in a big sized bucket I had laying around in garden that only had rain water in, I then noticed about 2 weeks later one baby fry swimming around.
I pritty much have left it to its own devises for 4 weeks as been away on holiday.
Now the baby fish is about 3cm and looks really healthy.
Sad I know but me and the Mrs are over the moon and so happy.
My question is at what stage do we put in into the main pond?
Tried to find the answer on net and forum but can't find a straight forward answer, any advice would be great.
Thanks for listening......
Ok I'll start by explaining what happened.
I built my first pond (small 600lts) about 18 months ago.
I've had my ups and downs but my little pond is really healthy and this summer (UK London) the fish started mating and one fish was being hassled (in a romantic way lol) by two males (all goldfish)
I observed and read up on this forum and found all the answer I ever needed, Thanks by the way.
The female then did her bit and the males did there bit, I just left them to it but I noticed that one of the big fish, we call her "big fat sue" cos she eats everything, including the eggs. So we thought that was the end of that.
But here's the amazing part, the pond had imo to much oxygenating plants so I used a net and took some out and put in a big sized bucket I had laying around in garden that only had rain water in, I then noticed about 2 weeks later one baby fry swimming around.
I pritty much have left it to its own devises for 4 weeks as been away on holiday.
Now the baby fish is about 3cm and looks really healthy.
Sad I know but me and the Mrs are over the moon and so happy.
My question is at what stage do we put in into the main pond?
Tried to find the answer on net and forum but can't find a straight forward answer, any advice would be great.
Thanks for listening......