sammbaxter
Aquarium Advice Regular
So I'm building a small backyard pond at the moment, and I'm not exactly sure how big it is. I used about 12x11 feet of pond liner and it's an average of 2 1/2 feet in depth. The actual pond is maybe 6 feet by 7 1/2 feet. I tried calculating how many gallons it is and my calculations came to around 760 gallons. If that's correct, I'm planning on putting fish in it, but I'm not really sure what fish would be okay. Koi would be sweet to have, but would my pond be too small? If I were actually to do koi, I'd only be able to do maybe 2, which is okay, but is that a good idea? Or would my best bet be to stick with goldfish? Also, the pond is for my parents, and my mother wants to have it be tropically planted, so any plant suggestions for that? I live in southern utah, so it's over 100 degree desert weather every day in the summer and the winters get to be as low as the 20's on average, although this past winter we actually got a fair snowfall and temps dipped down all the way to 10 degrees. So would tropical plants survive and more importantly would my fish survive the winter?
Pond in the making...
Pond in the making...