KrissMystic

I’ll definitely be testing the water. I’m hoping it’ll get to at least mostly self sustaining. I’m willing to learn and work to get what I want. I do like the look of the hyacinths as well.

Looks beautiful! I can do a lot more in that than I was thinking too! Im bad with plants but I’m trying to learn. I know duckweed is fairly self sufficient so hopefully that’ll be easy but I’ll look into hyacinth as well. Thank you 😊

Well I want them to be happy. And I figured I’d end up with either more than one pond eventually or just a big pond. Right now I’m trying to plan it and not just buy and hope. I certainly hope I can create something they’ll be happy in. They really are peaceful to watch and I can tell they each have their own little personalities that are just so perfect. I’m sure your boys would love that, I’m hoping my niece and nephews will enjoy feeding them eventually. Thank you again for your help 😊

I could do the 110 stock trough. I’ll just have to stick to one trough though. I know goldfish can be a lot of work. And I don’t know, I just figured maybe I could give them a better life than if I took them back to the store where they live with 200 other fish in a 20 gallon. I don’t mean to be rude, I just came here for advice not to be shot down. Thank you for your help 😊

I’m ok with doing lots of water changes. Where I’m planning to put it is right below the kitchen window and I go out there everyday, multiple times a day. I like watching them. I’m also ok with waiting to get a bigger one in a couple months rather than the 35g.

Guess I’m giving them back then. Thought I’d get like some suggestions though and not so much “you’re doing it wrong”. Like maybe what size they should go in? Oh well I guess

Or TWO 35 gallons 🤯

I could do 50 gallons. Would a medium sponge filter still be able to work in it? I haven’t bought anything yet so I am certainly up for suggestions

*New to fish keeping so... sorry if I forget anything important* I guess a bit of preamble, I have a 29 gallon aquarium, inside, where at the moment I have five 1-1.5 inch comets. Yes, this is currently my only tank. My plan was to give the ones in there back to the pet store when I actually decided what to do (and find the fish I want) with my indoor tank. My problem is I kinda fell in love with them and now I wanna keep them too(MTS already hitting me). Sooooo.... I have an idea for a 35 gallon pond in my back yard year around. I’d like to keep it simple and use a medium sponge filter for both agitation and filtration. I’m not sure if I should use a substrate or not but if I do it’ll be some gravel from my other tank. I’ve also already put some extra bio rings in my filter so when I do set it up I already have some good cultures on there as well. I’d like to keep duck weed in both my indoor tank and in this pond. That way, (as I don’t plan on having anything indoors that’ll eat it) as the goldfish outside eat it all, I can transfer some from my indoor tank to the pond as it propagates. I do have food in case the duckweed dies or can’t keep up with the fish. My climate is fairly mild here in central California with winters only having a few nights per year below 32*F and no snow. The summers frequently go into triple digits for weeks at a time. I am concerned about it getting too hot as I know goldfish like cooler water. The place I’m thinking of gets afternoon sun as well. I’m hoping the duckweed will help with water temperature as well. Id like some advise on this. About any of it really. Is this an ok set up for them? Is there something more I should do? Maybe you see an obvious problem that I just don’t see. Like I said, new fish keeper here, so I don’t even know what questions to ask. Maybe you’ve done something similar and I’d love to learn from someone else’s experience. I’ve tried to educate myself the best I can but there’s no way I found ALL the info. I guess I’m nervous as I want my fish to be happy. Thank you