ok so I recently dug a hole in my garden and inserted a preform pond which measures approx 2ft x 2.2ft. I got a couple of buckets of water from my local pond and mixed this with tap water and let it settle for a few days. I then got myself 10 small fish (really small from petshop, look like neon fish but without the neon and they are coldwater). I also got approx 50 tadpoles from my local pond and put these in with the fish.
Everything was going well for a couple of weeks and it still is, so now I got some pond plants. At the bottom of the pond I have a thin layer of gravel and a couple of rocks and a piece of slate for things to hide under. The plants I got are one bunch of elodea canadensis, one bunch of elodea crispa, one bunch of milfoil and then a small bag of some type of long grass which stays together at the bottom of the pond (its dark green, i have no idea what it is sorry).
I wanted to know if this was too many plants, ive read various guides online and I understand plants are good in the daytime but not so good in the nighttime. Now I dont want to starve my pond life of oxygen so should I remove some of the plants?
I dont have a filter, but I do have a sola panel air pump which provides two airstones to the pond. But these dont work at night time so I guess this doesnt help. Also note that these dont work in the day time either unless the suns out - And theres not much sun in the UK at the moment!
Any advice would be much appreciated
I have added a picture of the pond (note that the two colourful plants on the right are plastic, i added these as they were full of algae and the tadpoles are in the process of cleaning them for me)
Everything was going well for a couple of weeks and it still is, so now I got some pond plants. At the bottom of the pond I have a thin layer of gravel and a couple of rocks and a piece of slate for things to hide under. The plants I got are one bunch of elodea canadensis, one bunch of elodea crispa, one bunch of milfoil and then a small bag of some type of long grass which stays together at the bottom of the pond (its dark green, i have no idea what it is sorry).
I wanted to know if this was too many plants, ive read various guides online and I understand plants are good in the daytime but not so good in the nighttime. Now I dont want to starve my pond life of oxygen so should I remove some of the plants?
I dont have a filter, but I do have a sola panel air pump which provides two airstones to the pond. But these dont work at night time so I guess this doesnt help. Also note that these dont work in the day time either unless the suns out - And theres not much sun in the UK at the moment!
Any advice would be much appreciated
I have added a picture of the pond (note that the two colourful plants on the right are plastic, i added these as they were full of algae and the tadpoles are in the process of cleaning them for me)