Unique fish suggestions for Fish Pond

[jiajuen900]

More pictures because I took too many hehe....

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Overall shot of pond
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Water hyacinth & tiger lotus
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Driftwood with some ferns growing of it!
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Cheers,
JJ

[mUAr_cHEe]

Nicely done.

You got to stop calling that goldfish: feeder goldfish. It is no longer going to feed anyone and it looks like it can feed on some of its own pond-mates.

[Kiang]

Nicely done!

[bryan]

Really envious of you to have a pond to play with. Nice!

By the way your live bearers will have zero chance of off springs with the angels around.

[limz_777]

should add more plants , by the way there is a goldfish name celestial eye goldfish , has big eyes

[jiajuen900]

Really envious of you to have a pond to play with. Nice!

By the way your live bearers will have zero chance of off springs with the angels around.

Thanks! You're probably right. I've seen the pregnant females but never any offspring. I don't have any intentions on breeding but hopefully a few offspring can survive in the future.

should add more plants , by the way there is a goldfish name celestial eye goldfish , has big eyes

Planning to Or rather I have been trying to.
Over time I've been experimenting adding new plants. Most plants, especially anything submersed will always melt off. Even amazon frogbits and water lettuce die off. Initially I had multiple large Anubias species on the bottom, all died off

i believe it's either due to the pond temperature or lack of nutrients seeing how it's concrete and I don't dose the water column.

The ponds temperature gets very high on hot days, to around 32-33 degrees celsius so it might be a little too high for most submersed plants.

[limz_777]

if floating plants die off , its a clear indication that there are insufficient nutrient , does the pond get full sunlight ?

[Urban Aquaria]

It could also be the goldfishes or carps munching on the plants and their roots, hence slowly killing them over time... i noticed this happening at the in-ground garden pond at my previous home (i do miss it so).

What pond keepers usually do when they have plant eaters is to section off the plants in a plastic mesh fence or floating basket, so that the plants can still do their nutrient soaking jobs, yet not get disturbed or eaten by fishes.

Some ideas:






Photos from Google Images.

[jiajuen900]

if floating plants die off , its a clear indication that there are insufficient nutrient , does the pond get full sunlight ?

The pond gets full sunlight for majority of the day. So you are probably right. The high temps and high light probably shoots up the nutrient intake rate of the plants.

It could also be the goldfishes or carps munching on the plants and their roots, hence slowly killing them over time... i noticed this happening at the in-ground garden pond at my previous home (i do miss it so).

What pond keepers usually do when they have plant eaters is to section off the plants in a plastic mesh fence or floating basket, so that the plants can still do their nutrient soaking jobs, yet not get disturbed or eaten by fishes.

Some ideas:






Photos from Google Images.

The roots of the plants don't really suffer as much as the leaves and the lone goldfish in the pond is quite docile from what I've observed. He doesn't really disturb the plants.

i really like the 2nd option though. Will be useful to contain the floating plsnt growth.

[Mystikboy]

If you just want to contain plant growth, you can just tie tubing in a circle (making sure to either use the ones that float or trap air inside), and anchor the structure by tying to the sides of the pond (: