I had fish, i got them a few days ago. I have other animals. I know fish are suppose to be kept in a tank, but i had a large bowl.. i didnt know at this point that they should have been in a tank. But i had stones in there, artificial plants, a treasure chest thing. I fed them twice a day like the box told me to. I had two goldfish, but they both died within two days.. wht did i do wrong ?
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Alrighty… I’m rambly and I’ve got ideas going through my poor little brain, and going out today with my mother and aunt for this little local backyard garden pond tour thing that was going on got the gears cranking to the point that I think I’m smelling smoke… (ok, ok, that ~could~ be something else, but bear with me)
Couple questions lately have made me really start thinking about my brackish water tank that I want to set up one day, but looking at these koi ponds today was just…. WOW!!! (some people have waaaaay too much money and should give me some is all I got to say about that…) Some of these ponds if they had been set up brackish instead of fresh could easily have held legal size reds and snook rather than silly ol’ koi, and at first I was thinking "Why not bluegill and bass rather than koi?" but there was one right on the river… Just the stones used for this pond… no, waterfall, stream, terraced landscaping, little pond, another waterfall, more stream, a little bigger pond, another little waterfall and stream down to the big pond at the bottom… jeeze, not to mention the dry-stacked wall along their property line… I don’t even want to think about it and that’s JUST THE STONES!!! Anyway, koi just don’t belong within spitting distance of brackish water as far as I’m concerned. (I know, this is fishing section, not gardening or pet fish section, but bear with me, I like everyone here better)
Anyway, there’s a point here somewhere… Ah, there it is… Considering you can catch reds in insanely shallow water, would it be feasable to set up, rather than a brackish water fishtank, a brackish water backyard pond? get one of the big preformed things from the hardware store, the primo filtration system you need for things like that, just fill it with good ol’ IRL water with maybe a layer of lagoon floor on the bottom, get some seagrasses going…. These were all gorgeous ponds, and gave me so many nifty ideas, but for some reason it always goes back to brackish water for me…. start with a little barely-keeper red, maybe a little seatrout… toadfish, horseshoe crab or three, little stingray, come on people, you gotta admit, it would rock…
Don’t care if they reproduce… just want something decent enough to keep a few alive and happy without feeling bad about putting them in a little tank… Even if I avoid the gamefish and just go with "trash" fish… little school of sailor’s choice… or… oooo…. forget sailor’s choice or reds or any of the larger species! I could stock it with mangrove snapper! err… no… don’t think it would be deep enough or the right kind of structure…
I’m still thinking… I need a yard before this can even begin to happen… and a bigger house before I can think about even a tank….
*sighs* maybe I could be like that rancher dude who just won the powerball…
See, this is my problem, and it’s always been my problem, I’m great with coming up with ideas that ~need~ to be shot down.
As if I could come anywhere ~near~ affording any type of waterfront property, much less riverfront, and thanks on the salinity issues… the way my brain was seeing it was "Well, the salinity levels of my area of the river fluctuate wildly and there’s still fish and everything does fine…" not thinking that it will wash ~out~ of the pond (probably killing off most any vegetation planted around it if I’m not careful about that… see… my other idea has been a bog garden, which would actually enjoy the overflow of a good FL rain…)
Still gonna have a garden pond one day, but maybe it will be bluegill and bass (or I was also looking at my neon tetras before the snapping turtle ate all of them, thinking how neat they’d be to see swimming in some big school somewhere tropical fishpond
LOL…. don’t worry, I WILL have a pond, fish or otherwise, it’s just that we’re renting right now and I don’t really want to put time, effort and money into putting a pond in a yard that’s not mine….
We’re looking, and there’s houses in our price range, it’s just that most of them lately haven’t been in the kind of neighborhood I want to deal with… a few pop up here and there, but people are so eager to get rid of them for whatever reason that they’re just taking the first offer to come along… or they’re covering up major problems with the houses, things like that… One that we nearly got was a cute little place that I would have been happy with until our termite guy came to look at it… and my father’s buddy from back in his roofing days came to do the inspection… jeeze, if these people had done as much work actually ~fixing~ the problems as they did covering them up it would have been a great house…
I want to make an artificial water fall for my yard and I would like to no how to make it.
What would be the best to plant?
Daylillies is winning. I like those. But is it too late to plant them? It’s getting warm. Will they survive?
