Rubbermaid Outdoor Pond for Native Fish

[xspainx69]

Is it possible to buy like a 300-400 gallon rubbermaid pond and stick it outside and stock it with some sunfish and catfish and maybe largemouth bass?


Next question: Would I need a source of aeration or is there a natural way to do it by sticking in plants? If I cant do it naturally what would I need?

For strong native fish is filtration necessary? Is there a natural method of filtration that can be done by plants? Can filtration be done by simple weekly water changes?

Thanks

 

[Casper]

Would you take these fish indoors during the winter? I'm just thinking that something that small would freeze almost solid.

I don't think 300/400 gallons is large enough to go unfiltered with large fish. Maybe with something smaller like a few goldfish. Now if you had something in the order of the tens of thousands of gallons you could do something like that.

 

[Louie]

Is it possible to buy like a 300-400 gallon rubbermaid pond and stick it outside and stock it with some sunfish and catfish and maybe largemouth bass?


Next question: Would I need a source of aeration or is there a natural way to do it by sticking in plants? If I cant do it naturally what would I need?

For strong native fish is filtration necessary? Is there a natural method of filtration that can be done by plants? Can filtration be done by simple weekly water changes?

Thanks

Like Casper said in NY it would freeze solid . In summer unless its atleast partially buried or in shade it would get to hot for them as summer in NY can get hot.

I used to live in Long island by wading river and one guy kept local sunfish in kiddie pools during summer in shade. He caught them fishing in Spring.
They did great with lots wood cover,floating plants . I wouldnt add the catfish because you might get a sunfish spawn .
They will spawn if adult pair (imagine depends on sunfish).
He didnt use filtration just siphoned out water and replaced it with dechlorinated water.

Bass I know nothing about but spawning male sunfish are mean and dont tolerate other fish in area.

 

[Muske]

No bass and no cats....

Maybe a bullhead, but filtration is really needed. You could probally get away w/ a few panfish or minnows w/o filtration. Pond pumps can be found cheap, and a bog filter out of another Rubbermaid (the 74 or 100 gal.) is easy to make.