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Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
Besides the usual carp family of Goldfish and Koi, what other types of fish
have been successfully kept in an outdoor pond? I would *really* like to try something like guppies but I jus' plain don't know what would happen. I know guppies (and assorted tropicals) like warmer water and will probably either die or have to be fished out (HA!) come winter. (I currently just have four of the $0.12 feeder gold fish at about 2-3 inches each and the assorted California Toad and occasional Pacific Tree Frog; no tadpoles, dammit...) Air temps range in the upper 90s to 110-ish in summer here. Water temp, well, I wish I knew. The thermometer got broken... But it goes pretty warm. Still waitin' for the WH to multiply enough to shade the thing. --Bryan (who hopes he doesn't have the filters turn up too high in the group and filters out reasonable replies....) -- ************************************************** ********** * Can't see the Forest | Bryan B. * * Through the Trees? | Reply if you want. E-mail * * Take it out! | address changes frequently * * (Damn Viruses!) | to foil spambots. * ************************************************** ********** |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
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. 125.201... Besides the usual carp family of Goldfish and Koi, what other types of fish have been successfully kept in an outdoor pond? I would *really* like to try something like guppies but I jus' plain don't know what would happen. I know guppies (and assorted tropicals) like warmer water and will probably either die or have to be fished out (HA!) come winter. (I currently just have four of the $0.12 feeder gold fish at about 2-3 inches each and the assorted California Toad and occasional Pacific Tree Frog; no tadpoles, dammit...) Air temps range in the upper 90s to 110-ish in summer here. Water temp, well, I wish I knew. The thermometer got broken... But it goes pretty warm. Still waitin' for the WH to multiply enough to shade the thing. --Bryan (who hopes he doesn't have the filters turn up too high in the group and filters out reasonable replies....) Minnows. Here's an info. link: http://www.fishpondinfo.com/rosies.htm Gail near San Antonio TX Zone 8 |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
orfes ... and they are sort of birth control in a pond too. Ingrid
BB wrote: Besides the usual carp family of Goldfish and Koi, what other types of fish have been successfully kept in an outdoor pond? I would *really* like to try something like guppies but I jus' plain don't know what would happen. I know guppies (and assorted tropicals) like warmer water and will probably either die or have to be fished out (HA!) come winter. (I currently just have four of the $0.12 feeder gold fish at about 2-3 inches each and the assorted California Toad and occasional Pacific Tree Frog; no tadpoles, dammit...) Air temps range in the upper 90s to 110-ish in summer here. Water temp, well, I wish I knew. The thermometer got broken... But it goes pretty warm. Still waitin' for the WH to multiply enough to shade the thing. --Bryan (who hopes he doesn't have the filters turn up too high in the group and filters out reasonable replies....) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:26:09 GMT, BB
I would *really* like to try something like guppies but I jus' plain don't know what would happen. --Bryan (who hopes he doesn't have the filters turn up too high in the group and filters out reasonable replies....) Mollies & Platys, till it gets cold. ~ jan ----------------- Also ponding troll free at: http://groups.google.com/group/The-Freshwater-Aquarium |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
**** it put them all in the pond and in the fall put a trolling motor in there and turn em all to shushi........then get a big straw and suck em out like a big milk shake.. ..On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:29:50 -0700, ~ janj wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:26:09 GMT, BB I would *really* like to try something like guppies but I jus' plain don't know what would happen. --Bryan (who hopes he doesn't have the filters turn up too high in the group and filters out reasonable replies....) Mollies & Platys, till it gets cold. ~ jan ----------------- Also ponding troll free at: http://groups.google.com/group/The-Freshwater-Aquarium -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
Thanks for the useful and productive suggestions... I sorta like the
minnows that Gail referenced. And I hadn't really thought about mollies and platys. Might give them a look. And, not too crazy about ofres.... But thanks, folks! --Bryan -- ************************************************** ********** * Can't see the Forest | Bryan B. * * Through the Trees? | Reply if you want. E-mail * * Take it out! | address changes frequently * * (Damn Viruses!) | to foil spambots. * ************************************************** ********** |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
BB wrote:
Thanks for the useful and productive suggestions... I sorta like the minnows that Gail referenced. And I hadn't really thought about mollies and platys. Might give them a look. And, not too crazy about ofres.... I'd skip the Mollies, since you were already skeptical about Guppies. They're all the same family, and not actually tropical (generally considered sub-tropical), but Mollies always seemed less hardy to me. -- derek |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
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Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
"BB" wrote in message . 125.201... Besides the usual carp family of Goldfish and Koi, what other types of fish have been successfully kept in an outdoor pond? ============================================ I have some pretty gold colored Rosy Reds I bought as feeder fish a few years back. They survive the winters here in zone 6 and reproduce, but their numbers stay stable. -- KL.... Frugal ponding since 1995. Aquariums since 1952. My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö ~~~~ }((((({* |
Other fish than Gold or Koi in Pond?
Tropicals mare much nicer n a largepreform than GF are. We have a 65
with 4 male bettas and 9 females with 3 nests right now and fighting is not a problem. Total of 11 preforms and other water features allloaded with tropcials.Gourami, cichiids, guppys, platys (look like miniature GF anyhow) barbs, tetras and a first this year 10 angles.On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:06:11 -0500, Lar wrote: In article . 201, says... :) Besides the usual carp family of Goldfish and Koi, what other types of fish :) have been successfully kept in an outdoor pond? :) :) I have a preformed pond roughly 7x9 feet 2 feet deep around 300 gallons. Mine has the fancy guppies...mollies...platys...bettas (no they don't fight each other when they have room to claim a spot) ...long finned danios (nice to watch at night, very active) black skirted tetras (neat to watch during the day)..and some sort of red tetra, all need to be removed before a temperature drop. The gold fish and their fry along with the White cloud minnows will survive the winter. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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