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