I recently transplanted some baby gold fish, up to an 1" in size to my
pond, I have 2 large koi in the pond as well from before, but I was
wondering.. while the koi like to stay out of the sun most of the time by
staying on the bottom, and coming up to the surface once in a while, I
noticed when the sun is in full shine on the pond, the baby goldfish like
to stay at the top near rocks or even on top of the rock where the water
might be 1" high over the rock, is this for warmth? they do swim all over
the place, but they seem to like the sun.

Joel

Joel wrote in message 34...
I recently transplanted some baby gold fish, up to an 1" in size to my
pond, I have 2 large koi in the pond as well from before, but I was
wondering.. while the koi like to stay out of the sun most of the time by
staying on the bottom, and coming up to the surface once in a while, I
noticed when the sun is in full shine on the pond, the baby goldfish like
to stay at the top near rocks or even on top of the rock where the water
might be 1" high over the rock, is this for warmth? they do swim all over
the place, but they seem to like the sun.

Joel

Mornings are 30-40* and my goldfish are swimming around at the top.
They seem to hang around one rock which may be warm or have some good
algae. The rock is facing the sun. Happy water gardening.

Our pond fish are ectothermic. Their bodies are 'heated' from sources outside
their bodies, the warmth of the water, the warmth of the sun shining on the
water.
We heat our bodies from inside, the food we take in is our fuel.
A fish gets too cold and it can not digest its food, which is why we recommend
not feeding fish when the water stays below 55 degrees.
The fish sloooows down for the winter and zones away the cold season.
A shark is a fish that is endothermic and heats its body from the food it takes
in.
Any more specific than that and we'd have to find Bret, the fish biologist...


kathy :-)
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Send him to me. In AZ, our temps are already in the 90's; pond is at
74* already. I'll cure him of sunbathing. Include some breadcrumbs
LOL.

"AZKalEl" wrote in message
om...
Send him to me. In AZ, our temps are already in the 90's; pond is at
74* already. I'll cure him of sunbathing. Include some breadcrumbs
LOL.

I've often wondered what do people with ponds in warmer areas do. I suppose
occasionally tossing block of ice into the pond would help. If you had the
freezer space to make a new block of ice every day.

Sameer

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 05:07:31 GMT, "Snooze"
wrote:

"AZKalEl" wrote in message
. com...
Send him to me. In AZ, our temps are already in the 90's; pond is
at
74* already. I'll cure him of sunbathing. Include some
breadcrumbs
LOL.

I've often wondered what do people with ponds in warmer areas do. I
suppose
occasionally tossing block of ice into the pond would help. If you
had the
freezer space to make a new block of ice every day.

Sameer

Yes, it gets very hot in the pond here in the south. Especially my
dinky one. I add shade during the sunny parts of the day.

Pond tour in Tucson this next weekend. I plan to see how some of the ponders
here keep the water cool, before I add bigger pond, this year I hope in the
yard..
Our ponds on the porch do well but, they are 85% shaded, so no worry about
them, but they are only 150 gal. puddles. Of course I only have goldfish, no
Koi. J & K in AZ
jammer wrote in message ...
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 05:07:31 GMT, "Snooze"
wrote:

"AZKalEl" wrote in message
.com...
Send him to me. In AZ, our temps are already in the 90's; pond is
at
74* already. I'll cure him of sunbathing. Include some
breadcrumbs
LOL.

I've often wondered what do people with ponds in warmer areas do. I
suppose
occasionally tossing block of ice into the pond would help. If you
had the
freezer space to make a new block of ice every day.

Sameer

Yes, it gets very hot in the pond here in the south. Especially my
dinky one. I add shade during the sunny parts of the day.




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I live in the south, heat doesn't seem to bother my fish at all. Keeping your
pond deep so cool water pools att eh bottom might help some.

Moon
I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums.
My groups

Well this is year four for the pond and it's pretty well established.
The umbrella palm and cat tails have taken over the margins, which is
good because they don't seem to mind the brunt of the sun and they
give a good amount of shade. My lilies are huge now as well and
already cover most of the 8x10 pond surface. The umbrellas have
actually left the pond and are springing up all over the yard. For
plants that started out growing in standing water they don't seem to
care that they are in the desert. (I'm surprised the earth isn't over
run with them!) The ones that came up between the pond and the block
wall I left for more shade, and they are doing great. It did take a
while for all the plants to establish, but since they are so thick
they kind of shade themselves. I don't prune them til fall so any
dead stalks shade the live ones. So it doesn't get as hot as it did
in years 1 and 2. It's 2-2 1/2 feet deep so I bet it's actually
pretty cool down there. Fish seem to thrive, so that's what matters.