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Hi there, Northern England checking in!
I started around a year-and-a-half ago with a small wildlife pond in an allotment. Despite the small size, my mum added goldfish. That pond is now back to being a wildlife pond, and we made a larger, in-ground pond in our back garden for the fish. It’s still only around 1,300 litres, hopefully more as I’ve just raised the sides up some. I’ve yet to get new measurements but I will do that soon!
Currently, we have two large fantails, five comets of varying sizes, and two very small koi that were sold to my mum as goldfish, somehow (The boy that netted them for her was new in at the shop and the fish were apparently in the wrong tanks at cleaning time)… We also have five juvenile goldies that look to be comet/fantail crosses. We had a liner split -on Christmas Day - and so the older fish and the koi are in respite care, whereas the five babies are still with us and in a tank at the moment. However, the pond should be re-cycled by now and I’ve finished all the alterations so there should be fish in there again very soon.
I have a nano reef tank (softies with a couple of stony corals, a rock flower nem, sexy shrimp, money cowries, an emerald crab, will be adding a few more critters and some barnacle blennies), but I feel out of my depth with the pond. I was against getting pond fish because the first pond was way too small, and keeping carp properly is a looot of maintenance and money, but my parents were dead-set anyway. Naturally, I’ve ended up doing all the care
(I will make a separate thread in the appropriate forum but I need to mention here- yep, I’m aware of the potential stocking and size issues, especially with the two koi. Getting advice on that is my primary reason for joining.)
Really interested in making the pond as natural and ecologically balanced as possible, as well as making the best decisions for the fish, and so I’m looking forward to tapping into your expertise and experience
I started around a year-and-a-half ago with a small wildlife pond in an allotment. Despite the small size, my mum added goldfish. That pond is now back to being a wildlife pond, and we made a larger, in-ground pond in our back garden for the fish. It’s still only around 1,300 litres, hopefully more as I’ve just raised the sides up some. I’ve yet to get new measurements but I will do that soon!
Currently, we have two large fantails, five comets of varying sizes, and two very small koi that were sold to my mum as goldfish, somehow (The boy that netted them for her was new in at the shop and the fish were apparently in the wrong tanks at cleaning time)… We also have five juvenile goldies that look to be comet/fantail crosses. We had a liner split -on Christmas Day - and so the older fish and the koi are in respite care, whereas the five babies are still with us and in a tank at the moment. However, the pond should be re-cycled by now and I’ve finished all the alterations so there should be fish in there again very soon.
I have a nano reef tank (softies with a couple of stony corals, a rock flower nem, sexy shrimp, money cowries, an emerald crab, will be adding a few more critters and some barnacle blennies), but I feel out of my depth with the pond. I was against getting pond fish because the first pond was way too small, and keeping carp properly is a looot of maintenance and money, but my parents were dead-set anyway. Naturally, I’ve ended up doing all the care
(I will make a separate thread in the appropriate forum but I need to mention here- yep, I’m aware of the potential stocking and size issues, especially with the two koi. Getting advice on that is my primary reason for joining.)
Really interested in making the pond as natural and ecologically balanced as possible, as well as making the best decisions for the fish, and so I’m looking forward to tapping into your expertise and experience