Kara C

Gilligan

I'll have back up plans. Our weather is consistently inconsistent but no where near as intense of a winter as the rest of the US lol. I'm also contemplating lid design. This one doesn't get sun till the afternoon so a greenhouse effect would be useful. This year is a test, but I definitely don't want to harm my poor fishies. So I have been researching like mad the past few months. 😊

40 gallon mini pond with flagfish I started right before the covid madness began. The only plants that grew this summer was the bacopa and java moss I snatched from one of my tanks. Bought some more plants lil over a month ago which are doing great. Black magic taro, a dwarf lily, and pickerel rush. The taro isn't happy with the sun switching position though. Which is where my lovely green water went too.... Diy spitting frog from Dollar Tree with a small fountain pump from Lowes. Being in Central Florida, I'm going to try over wintering it with only a few of the fish. Dean had mentioned in a video about a role of privacy reed as insulation so I picked some up to try my luck. I didn't get a huge boom of fry, but there's a lot more fish than I started with. I will be setting up a couple more next year without pumps with white clouds and hoping for some orange ricefish.