naughty pond fish

hi,ive noticed this morning that 2 of our pond fish are annoyingly chasing another one? it must be tiring for it poor thingis it breeding behaviour?first time weve had fish so ive no idea thanks xx

 

Yes , leave them to it

 

You'll soon be hearing the patter of tiny fins joolz
We started off with around 12 fish 9 years ago, lost count how many are in there now,100's, we have goldfish and shubunkins, the goldfish are hard to spot at first as they start off black then suddenly start to change colour, some not till they're quite large.

 

No way simbad!..you winding me up?,how bigs your pond???
I hope that is frog spawn and black tadpoles thats in there now i better get the magnifying glass out and double check x

 

Oh blimey. I've got tiny pond with 2 goldfish in it. They've been chasing each other around for weeks. I spotted one today near the surface and it was looking quite large around the belly. Am I about to get some fishlets too? Do they give birth to live fish? Or do they lay eggs?

 

The ponds quite big joolz around 15ft by 25ft and 8ft deep in the middle, would've made a great swimming pool, here's a couple of pictures taken last year, constantly having to clear the weed and the water soldiers,so the poor fish can actually swim!!!!!, get barrow loads of the stuff, this is part of it before the big clear out.

 

That is a BIG pond simbad their in paradise if mine do make me a grandmaand hopefully NOT ya can have them x

 

eggs

 

Will the frogs eat them watergarden,either as eggs or fishlets?I was worrying about the fish eating the tadpoles but now im worrying about them being eaten aswell x

 

The fish will eat them unless there's plenty of cover. They will eat the tadpoles too. Fish are greedy its but you usually end up with some babies. They hatch so tiny you won't see them in the pond. I cleared out half the fish last year and gave them to a friend. This year there isn't much cover for them to hide in so hopefully I don't end up with more.

 

The ponds not big enough for them to hide i dont think caz,there are oxygenating plants in the bottom thou,next doors pussy willow is shedding all over it at mo so i cant see much i have to keep clearing under and over the netting The chasing seems to have had calmed down this morning but ive not feed them yet.This is a pic from last summer when we put it in and bought 6 fish which i think is too small for them really(prob about 6ft accross)...it didnt enter my head they might breed

 

That pond is beautfull looks as big as the pond in our park!!!! love it!!!!!

 

Thanks Folly Mon , we had a man in a digger come to terrace our garden, as we're on quite a steep slope, asked him to dig us a small pond while he was here, came back at the end of the day and this is what he'd done , said he loved doing things like this, quite pleased with himself , trouble is with our house being a new build meant we had to have a water meter, imagine what it would have cost to fill this so we had to wait for it to fill with rainwater and use water from our rainwater collection tank,took well over a year, looking at it now though so glad he made it this big as a smaller one would have looked out of place with the size of the garden

 

Its brilliant simbad ,i think our gardens about 50ft by 150ft, ive just said to darran "bet we could fit one that size in and loose the othe 2 ponds weve got instead "
He kinda growled ....how much was ur liner? bet they aint cheap for that size x

 

Your garden is a similar size to ours joolz ours is 200ft by 80ft so a big pond would look great, but yes the liner was very expensive not much change from £400 if I remember rightly and that was 10 years ago, can't remember how long its supposed to last, Rob'll know, must have a fairly long life he'd have checked that.