Pond pics

I took some pictures of the frogs, fish and pond with a real camera instead of just with my iPhone. The water is staying clear and the fish are doing really well. There are a few comet gold fish and some koi in there. I know that the pond can handle the koi at the size the are right now because they are only three inches but it will only be able to sustain about 3 full grown fish so it looks like I’ll be digging a new, bigger pond next year. It’s a good thing I know exactly where I want to put it.

My Pond

Here is the pond I’ve been working on this summer. I obviously need to do more with the rocks around the edges. The ones I have here were free. I want to layer flat field stone so it hangs over the water to hide where the black shows but that will have to wait.  It’s about 8 feet long by 6 feet wide and 18 inches deep. It has water hyacinth, curly rush, umbrella palm, dwarf cattail. I have a grass that I’m not sure of the exact name and a red leaf plant that I’m also not sure the name of. I have two comet gold fish and a some koi. There are 3 frogs. (that I’ve counted) The pond is filtered with a 500 gph pump running through a Tetra Biofilter that I added a charcoal layer using mesh bags filled with media. It also has a bell fountain in the center and a fish spitter off to the side so there is no stagnant water. The water is clear and the frogs haven’t left so things are looking good.

I plan to bring the fish and plants in this winter and next spring I’m going to dig down to 36″ so I can winter the fish outside next year.

I’m an experienced fish keeper 15+ years.