"Daniel Phillips" wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:31:37 GMT, "Snooze"
wrote:

In such a small pond, a gold fish or two would keep the mosquito
population
down. Just get the cheap 25c feeder goldfish. You could also use mosquito
fish (Gambusia affinis).

You could also break a mosquito dunk into quarters and every few weeks
just
toss in a new dunk fragment.

Sameer

Would two of those goldfish need a pump? Would I need to suppliment
their insect food with other food?


If you only put 2 small fish, like guppies, mosquito fish, minnows, rosies,
the plants will be the filter just fine. Maybe you'll want a pump to
circulate the water to aerate it. But 2 guppy sized fish in a 20 gallon
barrel most likely won't have o2 level problems.

Just get a sprig or two of anacharis to aerate the pond, they do a good job.

As for a filter to remove the muck, just make a siphon out of a section of
1/2 tubing and you can vac out the stuff on the bottom periodically.

Sameer