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Seeing as this section is currently being used as a help and advice forum for some quite random stuff, I’ll hopefully take advantage.
I recently bought a house and inherited a garden pond and very nice it is too. I inherited some fish with this pond and I have no real idea how to look after them. So…
1 In a cupboard in this house, I found that I had inherited a bag of pond sticks. There are approximately ten fish. The pond is approximately 10 feet by 2 feet by an average of 2 feet deep. How much and how often should I feed them?
2 A kindly local lady offered her help but her over-zealous approach is confusing me a little. She almost freaked out when she found there were stone slabs in the pond that seem to have been put there as fish, allegedly, like to hide. She tells me that they seep alkali into the water and this can kill the fish. She did an PH test, in my absence, and tells me that the litmus paper was bright blue suggesting severe alkalinity. I mentioned this to an assistant in Pets at Home and they said that fish like a bit of alkalinity and the stones shouldn’t cause a problem. Who’s right and who’s wrong?
3 I bought a couple of water lilies for the pond. Are these classed as oxygenating plants? If not, can anyone give me an example of an oxygenating plant?
If anyone can give any other hints and tips for a newbie, enforced pond owner, I would be pleased to hear them.
Thank you.
I’ve done it again :blush: :oops: Can someone please move this to the non-football section please? :blush: :oops: :blink: :dry:
I’ve done it again :blush: :oops: Can someone please move this to the non-football section please? :blush: :oops: :blink: :dry:Moved :)
In as much as I know anything about pond fish – I’ve managed to kill off all fo mine (although actually I think the bad winters have done for them):
I used to feed the fish every few days in Summer – just a few sticks should do – if they don’t eat it all you’re giving them too much. Don’t feed them when the weather gets colder though.
I don’t see any problem with stones – they occur in nature don’t they?
And while lilies will give some oxygenation you can buy oxygenating plants at any fish store – they tend to be little tufts of what look like weeds. Just go to somewhere like Pets at Home and they’ll sort you out
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