HI!

I'm afraid I can't answer most of your questions, but I'll describe what we have.

We have a smallish pond, about 8 feet long, 5 feet wide, 3 feet deep. We have goldfish and some type of feeder fish that I have no idea what it is. We do very little with the pond and they seem to do very well. My hubby has some kind of filter system built into the waterfall and in the box that holds the pump. He cleans it out about once a month.

We have lilies and some kind of parrot plant I think it is called in the pond. The one plant is spreading very nicely in the rock we have around the edges of the pond. We do nothing special with the plants. Just cut the lilies down in the fall.

We do nothing nutritional with the fish. We don't feed or put any enhancers in the pond. All the fish are a beautiful bright orange and the multicolored ones are very pretty. We have some blackish colored ones that have turned gold, others have stayed black.

I have noticed when our fish layed eggs, it was the larger ones that were the females and they did get quite bloated. I have nothing special to protect the eggs and usually we don't even know where the eggs are. Sometimes I can see them, most of the times I can't. Usually I know we have babies when they are actually large enough to see.

I'd love to see some pictures!
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Min

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