Show me your pond!

[SuperJohnG]

14 hours ago, saveasteading said:

If you don't mind sacrificing your fish, an area of floating plants or rushes will allow small fish to stay out of harm from large predators. They will still meet newts and dragonfly larvae. A pair of fish will make hundreds of fry among the roots, and then some may get by.  Chances of getting a male and female goldfish? .No idea. 

If they weren't gold it round help but you wouldn't see them either. 

We had fry last year and loads of young came so some will be there, we started with 100 fish the second time round, around 30 when the otter came....it must have seemed like Christmas to him. 

 

We've lots of cover in the shallows to hopefully enough. The Heron has ranout of fish so was catching frogs last week...that was interesting watching it eat those. 

 

The circle of life.

[saveasteading]

We have a brick ornamental pond about 1m deep all over, with plants on shelves ( cheap plastic shelf units). So the fish have cover and roots fof spawning. But they swim around the surface and are very visible from above.

Herons occasionally fly in but don't expect the deep water, and panic and fly away. 

Pots around the perimeter remove hunting stances.

I expect it is a quick end for any fish or frog caught. 

But having an otter! I don't see anyone else with that claim.

For the new property I think we will have a swale, with depths and shallows and gravel verge, as part of the drainage strategy. It will go dry in summer.

Plus a decorative brick one.