First Tropical Pond Build

[charles-n-charge]

Nothing new. I'll be adding fish in Spring when it warms up. I'll be doing natives and koi for the first year, might go tropical next year


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[charles-n-charge]

Added a 11" pleco, two 2" plecos, and a few more goldfish to the crystal clear pond...
Temps up in the 70's now, hopefully I'll be setting up some form of filtration and UV sterilization within the next month or so


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[charles-n-charge]

I'm considering putting the deformed baby retail out in the pond here soon too.

Any input on that guys?


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[Muske]

Do it, Kitty will like.

Do you already have filtration and is not set up, or do u still need to purchase?

 

[charles-n-charge]

Little bit of both... I have most of what I need to put the filter together, but I'm lacking a pump. That's my big setback at the moment


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[kgby13]

It has been a couple months. Any updates?

 

[charles-n-charge]

My 13" tiger Oscar "Bruce" has been hanging out in the corner of the tank for awhile now. The Arowana beats him up every time he leaves that corner, so he's extremely hungry and stressed and damaged.
So I finally decided the only way to solve the problem was to move Bruce to the pond.
Here's some photos of moving him. You can see how beat up he is, clearly he needed to be moved away from the Arowana.


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[charles-n-charge]

This is my little filter I'm running right now... Not much but better than nothing I guess


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[charles-n-charge]

Broke out the bigger pump. I'm only going to run it every other day over night, considering its a utility pump and sucks up electricity like crazy. Hopefully it clears up a little. Right now visibility is about 1-1.5ft


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[kgby13]

Dude looks sad in that bucket. Will he overwinter in the pond?