How many fish in one pond?

Hi guys,

I put 7 fish (mixture of Goldfish and Shubunkins) in my 1000lt pond when I
first stocked it. One died pretty much straight away and 3 vanished into
thin air -I think a Heron or something took them.

Iv'e had Three fish in there now for about 3 years but last week I noticed a
new completely Jet Black fish has appeared. It is clearly a baby but it
dosn't look like it belongs to any of the fish I have already as they are
all multicoloured -do baby fish not look like their parents then?

Anyhow this has got me thinking, what if they keep breeding? How many fish
can I comfortably fit in a 1000 ltr pond and will the fish stop breeding
automatically once they reach this limit?

Any answers would be most appreciated thanks,
Jay :-)

Some go by the rule of 20 gallons per fish or 100 gallons for Koi. So, you
could support 13 goldfish in your pond.


"Jay" wrote in message
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Hi guys,

I put 7 fish (mixture of Goldfish and Shubunkins) in my 1000lt pond when I
first stocked it. One died pretty much straight away and 3 vanished into
thin air -I think a Heron or something took them.

Iv'e had Three fish in there now for about 3 years but last week I noticed
a new completely Jet Black fish has appeared. It is clearly a baby but it
dosn't look like it belongs to any of the fish I have already as they are
all multicoloured -do baby fish not look like their parents then?

Anyhow this has got me thinking, what if they keep breeding? How many fish
can I comfortably fit in a 1000 ltr pond and will the fish stop breeding
automatically once they reach this limit?

Any answers would be most appreciated thanks,
Jay :-)

"Jay" wrote in message
...
Hi guys,

I put 7 fish (mixture of Goldfish and Shubunkins) in my 1000lt pond when I
first stocked it. One died pretty much straight away and 3 vanished into
thin air -I think a Heron or something took them.

Iv'e had Three fish in there now for about 3 years but last week I noticed
a new completely Jet Black fish has appeared. It is clearly a baby but it
dosn't look like it belongs to any of the fish I have already as they are
all multicoloured -do baby fish not look like their parents then?

Some will be dark and color up in time.

Anyhow this has got me thinking, what if they keep breeding? How many fish
can I comfortably fit in a 1000 ltr pond and will the fish stop breeding
automatically once they reach this limit?

I'm not familiar with ltr's. Allow about 20g per goldfish (they get large
outdoors under good conditions.) outdoors if the filtration is good and
partial water changes are done on time.


Any answers would be most appreciated thanks,
Jay :-)

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it is about 264 gallons. about 20 gallons per goldfish. if you have
a veggie filter on that maybe more.
correct. the young do not look ALL like the parents, they revert to
wild type which looks black but actually is dark green.
once they reach the carrying capacity, the big ones start dying.
Ingrid

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:28:08 GMT, "Jay"
wrote:

Hi guys,

I put 7 fish (mixture of Goldfish and Shubunkins) in my 1000lt pond when I
first stocked it. One died pretty much straight away and 3 vanished into
thin air -I think a Heron or something took them.

Iv'e had Three fish in there now for about 3 years but last week I noticed a
new completely Jet Black fish has appeared. It is clearly a baby but it
dosn't look like it belongs to any of the fish I have already as they are
all multicoloured -do baby fish not look like their parents then?

Anyhow this has got me thinking, what if they keep breeding? How many fish
can I comfortably fit in a 1000 ltr pond and will the fish stop breeding
automatically once they reach this limit?

Any answers would be most appreciated thanks,
Jay :-)