The unexpected Pond

Hi All

I was called by my mother in-law over the weekend to come and sort out a tenant who skipped out on her after renting her house for 3 years, he just up and left back to Angola. She said that he had left the pond with a lot of fish in it and would I please come and sort it out and get rid of the fish as she has no time to feed then every day. WELL THIS is what I found to my much existed surprise. I was like a kid in a candy store :nuts:

Y I have put this in the Noteworthy systems heading is because I have never seen so many fish thriving in such a little space and also the care that was taken to keep the water in pristine condition for the fish. he also fitted the filter with a inline heater in it so as compensate for the winter months.

The Pleco was the biggest fish in the pond he is about 35cm in length but there was also what looks like a pepper cat fish of over 12cm long and very well fed he looks like a fat clown.

The rest consisted of a uncountable number of Guppies and Swordtail Plattys all of varying sizes. The only this wrong with the pond was in infestation of snails.

Give me a sec and I will post some pics......

 

yay

 

Nice one but do you have the extra space for the new members to your collection ..... and where is those pics you promised ?

 

okay okay

I luckily had a spare 450l tank lying around and put the pond pump on it but the capacity of fish in the tank is still going to be too much for the tank. I am going to sell them off to the LFS’s in the area.

 

that is a cool score, should be able to trade that stock easy at lfs for credit

 

Ya I am in the prosses of building a 800L for my boet in-law so thats going to come in handy. I will start a thread on the build after its done.

 

wish i could hook up a pond in jhb but can not keep it warm enough threw winter without it costing me a fortune

 

I think this saying is says it all

" you lucky fish"

 

The pic of the fish in the tank was from the first days harvest I will take one tonight of the total number its insain.

 

man that is super awesome. Congrats

 

Got a buyer yesterday for them all. will keep the best ones to breed as there seems to be a demand for them up here for now untill the market is flooded that is but hay its something to do. Also keeping the big cat fish and the small albino one the Pleco went before I could finish the question at the LFS.