Matt's Pond

I love those things, I enjoy being able to see the fish like that.

I haven’t seen this particular item, but I have seen variations of it. They were mainly cuboid in shape and were placed on a frame in the pond. They looked rather cool as the Koi one does.

Sorry about the sad news but well done for identifying and acting on the source of the problem as soon as you realised something was up and for working out a plan for the future. Thanks for allowing us to see your lovely goldfish - I have a very soft spot for goldfish as you know. 

Indeed! Keep us posted of any developments. 

Hi Matt

Your pond is amazing
Our pond is full of frog spawn.... it's lovely when it's full of tadpoles 
our decking overlooks the pond and i love sitting out watching the fish and frogs with a cold one in the summer

 

@fcmf I thought you might be interested to see this thread after discussions elsewhere so thought I would post this here…

A quick update copied from the other thread…I now only have 3 Comet Goldfish after one passed over winter (without much else to explain its loss other than it was cold)

I’ve added a (very poor quality) photo of my remaining inhabitants - a very pleasing mix of different colours. What I understand to be a canary yellow, standard goldfish, and a Shubunkin (a male with beautiful king fins). I might get a Waikin (which are double tailed) just to to continue the theme and add to the group.

I’ve had a problem with my filter recently - the flow rate had dropped over time (last 12+months) and suddenly it stopped alltogether just recently. Knowing that this isn’t a panic mode thing in winter for a pond I chose to trust the establish nature of the pond and calmly order a replacement impeller to see if that would fix the issue. It was a few days before it arrived, broken and a new one had to be sent. I’ve just fitted that replacement today and things are back up and running. I made sure to flush out any water in the filter which I had opened to let some oxygen in to keep the bacteria alive… regardless it didn’t smell great. I’ve added some bottled bacteria, some water conditioner, done a bit of a water change and given the filter a clean and everything seems to be just fine.

I still need to fix my leaky cascade / waterfall and am feeling particularly motivated to do this at the moment so hopefully I can claim some time (between looking after 2 kids) this summer to do this then is can be turned on more regularly.

I’m also planning to try a dwarf Lilly again (first one I got died after first year… I think I put it too deep in the pond) and a few more pond plants. My big marginal plant (sorry not sure on species) really suffered int he cold this year and I don’t know if it is going to grow back… time will tell.

A quick update copied from the other thread…I now only have 3 Comet Goldfish after one passed over winter (without much else to explain its loss other than it was cold)

I’ve added a (very poor quality) photo of my remaining inhabitants - a very pleasing mix of different colours. What I understand to be a canary yellow, standard goldfish, and a Shubunkin (a male with beautiful king fins).

I’m confused. I see two standard goldies and a shub, but there’s also three comets?

Goldfish come in different colours… red, orange, yellow, white, green, black(ish). And combinations. Fins can be clear, red, black, etc. (Most revert to plain red or orange with age).

Also as Shubs, multicoloured with a blue or whitish base colour.

Also as fancies, with their various distorted shapes, fins, eyes, hoods, and colours.

They’re all the same species, Carassius auratus.

A Comet is a “standard” goldfish (standard shape) with a long tail (hence “Comet”).

Bit of an update - I went away for 7 weeks on holiday - everything fish wise was fine, all my feeders worked, we’re regularly checked by family etc etc EXCEPT the pond. I literally have no idea what happened… though I have theories I’m not sure they are worth dwelling on to be honest, the simple fact is when I came back everything in there was dead and very smelly. 

I removed the things that had perished, drained the pond making sure to save the few tadpoles that were still doing ok, cleaned out the bottom (which I’ve seen a whole lot worse to be clear) and refilled. I actually did this twice to be on the safe side. I also cleaned out the filter. Then left it three weeks and (once I’d decided I did still want to be a pond keeper lol) given there’s been no signs of anything wrong, the water is crystal clear, and I’ve seen baby frogs and lots of mosquito larvae it was time to get fish. So x5 tiny goldfish have just entered the pond - very similar stocking to before with a variety of colour forms.  I also picked up a few additional plants. I’ll follow up with a photo when the rain stops!!