Before you panic and assume you have a leak that must be dealt with, lets
get some more info.

Do you have a pump in the pond that is sending water anywhere?
How much water are you losing? (1", 3" 6"?) a day?
Is your tap water chlorinated (more than likely)?

Do you have a different location you can place the pond? (dig new pond at
pace you can handle, line it, put in water and let water set 'till chlorine
evaporates - a few days unless you add chemicals to neutralize it)? Then
you can move in a few fish that you like the most and find a home for the
others.

Goldfish don't have to be fed much if at all. If the pond is alive with
insects and algae then they are getting food - if they are reproducing and
not eating up all their young then they are getting plenty. My wild guess
would put you at about 300 gallons - assuming your fish get 8" then you
would not want more than 12 but I am guessing. Others will give you a
better numbers. Again - don't panic - most ponders go through traumatic
events and we all survive it and learn from it.

Donna

"jenny23" wrote in message
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Ok so when i brought my house it came with a pond. and some fish. which
was at first a nice suprise.

but now it is just stressing me out!

the pond is quite small, i'd say 1 meter by 2.5 or something like that
and really not very deep. the water is yucky and it is stuffed with
fish.

i have been vaugly feeding them, fishing out excess weed, trimming
overhanding plabts and topping it up and tho it's a bit yuck as i say
the fish seem happy enough (not that i can really tell a happy fish
from a sad one!)

now it has been really hot i have been topping the pond up a bit, just
with tap water, but now i notice the level is going down rather quickly
and i suspect a leak.

eek.


so i thought i would get a new liner, see if i can pry the old one out
from the concrete it's set in, see if there is any chance i can dig
deeper and also see if i can get the water cleaner.

i have a couple of plastic crates i can bung the fish in while i do
this (while looking after a small bab, this is gonna be such i fun
weekend!) i assume if i don't take too long and keep them in shade this
will be okay.

but i think i may have way too many fish for such a small pond and
really don't know what to do, there seem to be an awful lot of small
babies.

so really i need any advice anyone can give about fixing the leak,
changing the water (can i just use tap water?) fishing them out
(specific nets?) filters or things that i could add to make the fish
happier (cheap and simple to mantain) and whether fish will keep on
breeding when they have no space to do so and if there is any way to
stop them...

i love the little pond, love watching the frog spawn, dragonflys and
fishies but my god it is stressing me out. i keep having nightmares
about all the fish flopping about gasping for air




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jenny23