|
Tangentially related, but is there any reason to buy silk/plastic plants unless you have like, koi fish that will eat them? Seems like silk plants are rough on fish, provide extra algae growing area, don't pull any nutrients out of the water, cost about the same price? I guess real plants occasionally shed leaves and need more light?
|
#
¿
Sep 12, 2022 17:47
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 11, 2024 08:11 |
|
|
So in the pond now I have ~8 rosy reds, 12 killifish and 7 rice fish, I think the killifish and rice fish lay 20+ eggs a week, each, under normal pond conditions And then I have 3x 3-4" goldfish I just do not understand how fish survive in the wild. Two of the goldfish are pretty chill, but the fantail just wanders between the clumps of Java/Christmas moss I have glued down, presumably looking for How do any eggs manage to hatch in the wild? Is it just sheer number of eggs, that eventually one egg gets missed and not eaten, finally to hatch as a fry? And then what? The fry needs to somehow survive hiding in the plants and roots long enough to get big enough to outswim it's predators? I should just accept that I'll never have any full grown fish as descendants of my original pond stock, unless I put them in a breeding tank?
|
|
#
¿
Sep 13, 2022 07:26
|
|
|
Should we kill this thread and wait until someone makes a thread with a proper OP I'm in favor of periodically renewing megathreads, but it's extremely poor forums hygiene to have two competing megathreads with massively overlapping topics such as this Several other people have complained and this has been going on for too long now Please report this post, thanks. Preferably with a link to Rick astley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
|
|
#
¿
Sep 17, 2022 05:46
|
|