Hello from Olympic Peninsula, WA

[NELEN]

Hello everybody!

I would like to introduce our small pond.
My husband and I decided to transform our useless flower bed (too much shade) into a pond. The work started in January (yes, this is our weather in January, but we do have snow sometimes for a few days). The hardest part was to find a proper form to fit and provide underground electricity.

Here is how it started:

And here is how the pond looks now:

For the beginning, we bought two shubunkins and one watonai goldfish. By the time when we have realized the fish are different in sex, lol, our pond already carried some fry. The only way we have seen to stop them breeding more and more was to separate males from females. That means to create another pond.
Long story short, we are still in the process to finalize the second pond, but now we have 4 males (3 shubunkins and 1 watonai) and 3 females (1 shubunkin and 2 watanais) and bunch of small fish. They are look active and happy.

Oh, I forgot to mention, we (my husband and I) never had fish before

Our males:

Watonai female

 

[JRS]

Welcome to the forum NELEN. Very nice start.

 

[GBBUDD]

i'm impressed with your vission the stump was a great choice, but i fear the gold fish you bought i'd rather see them at that size in 5 or more years . with no filter? it appears you have an air stone? your set up is a ticking time bomb the fish are quite large for that size pond, and as your finding out gold fish are like rabbits they can double tripple the population every 6 months

 

[NELEN]

i'm impressed with your vission the stump was a great choice, but i fear the gold fish you bought i'd rather see them at that size in 5 or more years . with no filter? it appears you have an air stone? your set up is a ticking time bomb the fish are quite large for that size pond, and as your finding out gold fish are like rabbits they can double tripple the population every 6 months

Thank you so much for your reply!
There is a filter installed in the pond - Pondmaster 1000 Garden Pond filter, an air stone and heater. The stump is not only for a waterfall, but has bioballs inside it as well.

 

[Hound Heaven]

Love that stump! Agree with gbbudd though that you may need to scale back on the fishes. But they are lovely fishes.

 

[jgrandmont]

Cute little pond! Really nice job!

 

[j.w]

@NELEN
Nice looking pond, maybe too many large fish tho?

 

[addy1]

Welcome to the forum.

Great job, beautiful set up.

 

[NELEN]

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Nice looking pond, maybe too many large fish tho?

They are not too large, 6-7 inch goldfish, and only 4 males in that pond (125 gal). I have already separated females from males and planning also separate small fish from large ones. Females have their one pond already and small fish will have a separate tank as well. Until we will figure out where to give away the small fish

 

[Mmathis]

Hello and welcome! Beautiful transformation!