Hi Guys...
Heres the situation, I have a 3x2x2FT tank which had 4 goldfish in, but as it was getting a little crowded, and they were spawning almost every week, I decided to enlarge the pond to Approx 12x8FT last June/July and along with the 3 in the original pond I nowhave 7 4-6 inch fish.
First Question is how do I calculate how much surface area I need for each inch of fish? looking at various sites they all say 10-20 Gallons per fish, but obviously a 2ft deep pond will have the same area as one 1ft deep, so no real help there. only one site sugested 24sq inches per inch of fish, so by my calculations 12ftx8ft = 13,824 sq inch / 24 = 576 fish inches = 72x8 inch fish ( seems a little over crowded!!!)
A few days after finishing the pond they had another spawning session and i now have approx 60 1/2 inch baby fish all doing well. ( I guess the Algie bloom a few days after the spawning gave the fry a good food supply & start! )
What is best here, will the pond support this extra amount of growing fish?, should I keep the 12 or so that i like and kull the rest or with Autumn/Winter on its way will weather/nature sort them down to a natural number?
Any help would be appreciated..
Thanks :thm:
Heres the situation, I have a 3x2x2FT tank which had 4 goldfish in, but as it was getting a little crowded, and they were spawning almost every week, I decided to enlarge the pond to Approx 12x8FT last June/July and along with the 3 in the original pond I nowhave 7 4-6 inch fish.
First Question is how do I calculate how much surface area I need for each inch of fish? looking at various sites they all say 10-20 Gallons per fish, but obviously a 2ft deep pond will have the same area as one 1ft deep, so no real help there. only one site sugested 24sq inches per inch of fish, so by my calculations 12ftx8ft = 13,824 sq inch / 24 = 576 fish inches = 72x8 inch fish ( seems a little over crowded!!!)
A few days after finishing the pond they had another spawning session and i now have approx 60 1/2 inch baby fish all doing well. ( I guess the Algie bloom a few days after the spawning gave the fry a good food supply & start! )
What is best here, will the pond support this extra amount of growing fish?, should I keep the 12 or so that i like and kull the rest or with Autumn/Winter on its way will weather/nature sort them down to a natural number?
Any help would be appreciated..
Thanks :thm:
