fishlady

I was wondering about putting a straw in or a small diameter piece of abs pipe. The nice thing about havnt them inside is you get to see them!

CK..see how little I know..salt tank I think is what I meant!

Thanks! I'm probably an outsider here as I do not have aquarium fish only Shubunkins and Sarassa comets. As a pond owner I don't even have koi! Beautiful fish but unless you can winter them in the pond you need really really big holding tanks for them and big nets to catch them! If I had an aquarium I'd love a reef tank but I hear they are expensive but who doesn't love Dora?

Hi J. Curious as to overwintering. I've had my pond for 15 years. It's only 3000 gals. 18 ft long x 6 ft wide. 42" deep in the deep end about 8 ft across there. I run 2 external pumps on it through an over the liner bottom drain into 300 gal settling chamber on one pump and skimmer on the other. From there to 2 waterfall bio filters. I left a few fish in one year with an air stone but it domed over and fish were dead come spring. So I bring my fish inside to their 300 gal tank for winter. I lost 12 fish two weeks ago when I went away for 3 days and left them in the care of my son. He didn't check on them at all and when I came home discovered one was sucked up against the intake of the fluval xp5 I use and the rest except 3 were dead. Looked like ammonia poisoning. This is why I'll be looking for a quarantine tank before buying new fish. If I could figure out a way to overwinter them in the pond I would. I had mostly Shubunkins and Sarassa comets and one koi (accidental looked like a Shubunkin). All were over 6" without tail. These were fish I'd only had for 2 years but still a loss.

Hi ponders. I forgot I joined this site but due to another forum recalled today. Curious as to whether any of you out there overwinter their fish in their pond and if so how do you do it?

Discovered today was a member but havnt used site in a long time. Pond owner bothe indoors and out. Lost almost all my fish 2 weeks ago so searching for large quarantine tank before buying new fish.