I am relatively new here, having registered 9/14/2010. This is our second summer for our "Poor Man's Pond." .Last March, '09 DH lost his job due to being laid-off. He is still looking, manufacturing engineer...'nuf said.: At any rate, our 24', above ground pool had a very slow leak where the wall meets the floor. Since we could not replace the liner and we did not want to take down the pool, a friend suggested adding a couple of feeder Goldfish to the 12" of water standing in the pond. I did not want to add chemicals to take care of the mosquito larvae and certainly did not want to breed those bloodsuckers! The 8 Goldfish we added grew and grew and grew. We added a few floating plants but the fish would not eat any food, just what was in that water. We had gray treefrogs emerge from that little 12" which was totally cool. I am sure they also made good meals of the tadpoles that initially we did not even know we had. We let the water raise in the pool and dropped a couple of sandbags on the split (the patch had failed the previous fall, but we were not aware until spring when we opened the pool and say only 12" of water!
DH then saw that someone on Craigslist has GF they wanted to rehome due to closing their pond and cleaning it for next spring. We got 17 GF that were added and now we spent our time counting to 25 :fish: We even stood on our deck with binoculars to watch the fish and count them! We also had dragonflys and damselflys emerge. That was the summer of "to the Google! :fish: We even frequented the actual library to find out information about our "Dumb Luck Pond". The fish continued to grow but these new ones taught our original 8 how to eat GF Food! Late Fall we found out, that unbeknownst to us, we now had Fry! The grand sons received a small tank and 10 "Homegrown Goldfish" for Christmas that year. The rest we had brought in and were in a tank until Spring '10....silly us!
We found online about keeping a hole in the ice that winter for the gasses to escape and finally when Spring '10 arrived ALL SURVIVED :blueflower: Yep, spent time counting to 25 plus we saw Phantom Fish....young, older than fry who had not changed colors yet! LOL So here we are. We had a fantastic summer, although still unemployed
We have close to 75 Goldfish in the pool and this past Spring, it officially became a pond, as while checking it out one morning, low and behold, we had a female Green Frog sitting on a floating planter I had made! Woo Hoo! She later brought a fella and we saw eggs in the pond/pool but they were quickly eaten by the insatiable GF. They then laid eggs in a kiddy pool that was growing duckweed and holding some plants to be planted and they are now tadpoles! LOL Yep, "Dumb Luck Pond".
Shoestring Ponder
CyndiMO
DH then saw that someone on Craigslist has GF they wanted to rehome due to closing their pond and cleaning it for next spring. We got 17 GF that were added and now we spent our time counting to 25 :fish: We even stood on our deck with binoculars to watch the fish and count them! We also had dragonflys and damselflys emerge. That was the summer of "to the Google! :fish: We even frequented the actual library to find out information about our "Dumb Luck Pond". The fish continued to grow but these new ones taught our original 8 how to eat GF Food! Late Fall we found out, that unbeknownst to us, we now had Fry! The grand sons received a small tank and 10 "Homegrown Goldfish" for Christmas that year. The rest we had brought in and were in a tank until Spring '10....silly us!
We found online about keeping a hole in the ice that winter for the gasses to escape and finally when Spring '10 arrived ALL SURVIVED :blueflower: Yep, spent time counting to 25 plus we saw Phantom Fish....young, older than fry who had not changed colors yet! LOL So here we are. We had a fantastic summer, although still unemployed
We have close to 75 Goldfish in the pool and this past Spring, it officially became a pond, as while checking it out one morning, low and behold, we had a female Green Frog sitting on a floating planter I had made! Woo Hoo! She later brought a fella and we saw eggs in the pond/pool but they were quickly eaten by the insatiable GF. They then laid eggs in a kiddy pool that was growing duckweed and holding some plants to be planted and they are now tadpoles! LOL Yep, "Dumb Luck Pond". Shoestring Ponder
CyndiMO
