I am looking for stocking suggestions for my Dad's pond. It's six feet long, five feet wide, and about five feet deep. It has a waterfall in the back and a lily pad in a submerged bucket on the right wall. I dug the pond with a shovel a couple years ago, and Dad inherited it when I moved out. I was just at the pond today, and I saw that it has about three or four inch-long goldfish in it (the rest all died). So we're looking for some stocking suggestions.
Fish requirements:
1. Be able to survive a Cleveland Ohio winter if Dad keeps the pump on and the waterfall breaks the ice for about a half foot radius.
2. Eats the algae that grows in the pond
3. Eats bugs enough that Dad barely ever needs to feed it
I said that I would ask my fellow NANFA people, because there are some pretty smart experts on this forum. How would a couple of the smaller sunfish do? Like an orangespotted sunfish? Fish suggestions greatly appreciated.
Edited by EricaWieser, 01 July 2011 - 09:06 PM.