Have been cycling this for over a month and just added 5 medaka rice fish today but how many are acceptable for a 14.5 gallon pot like this? And follow up question how much duckweed is too much? Seems to have taken over my barrel recently
First test of my little solar fountain pump seems successful. I plan to put some sponge and filter floss in the bowls to give a little extra filtration.
It’s still too cold at night for plants in my area but I’m impatient and I wanted to get a jump start on building up some beneficial bacteria. My substrate is a base of organic soil with a layer of sand over it and capped off with small aquarium pebbles.
My wood is floating still so I have it weighted down with stones. Hopefully all the hardscape will be hidden by plants. And I still want to find someone local to get medaka from. To be continued
I got my medakas today after a month of cycling my pond. 3 orange and 3 platinum white 😍
I'm so glad there is a mini fish pond group!
We are running two separate 25 gallon ponds. We have the whole set up, filter, live plants, heater ( as needed), etc. The ponds have metal mesh coverings to prevent birds from picking them out. We have had fish/plant ponds before, but these will be our first ones at our new/current home.
One pond will likely hold a male betta OR a female sorority. Now I'm struggling to decide what fish to put in the other one. We could do another betta set up OR we could do something else. Leaning towards something else!!! The more I search for options the more undecided I become.
What would you do? What do you recommend?
Thank you!!!
please ignore that misspelled word in the title please
I'm working on a whiskey barrel pond for my garden and eventually want to do a full size pond beside one of our flower beds. I tried using the bare barrel at first, but the water kept getting cloudy, then stagnant so after a couple of weeks of trying I tore it all apart and put a liner in. I assume it was from the barrel leeching into the water. After a week with the liner the water is nice and clear and there is no smell anymore. I have a fountain for circulation and I put in an airstone that I can turn on if needed. So far everything is looking good this time. I have spiral rush in the back, some hornwort, hyacinth and water spangle in the water and various plants and grasses in pots around the barrel to give it some shade on the sides. The branches are screwed down to the rim to give birds a place to land. I made a little gravel beach area on one side of the back planter for bees and butterflies to land and drink and the slate shelf hides the cord to the pump and airline to the airstone.
