Container ponds for natives?
#1 Guest_Joshaeus_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 10:24 AM
#2 Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 10:54 AM
#3 Guest_Joshaeus_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 11:16 AM
#4 Guest_Yeahson421_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 12:25 PM
#5 Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 12:32 PM
#6 Guest_Subrosa_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 01:24 PM
#7
Posted 18 March 2014 - 02:23 PM
I know that Michael Wolfe has great success with container ponds.
Thanks for the shout, and yes, my 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tanks have been a robust success here in north Georgia. Breeding has been pretty good, and survivorship has been pretty good (I am sure that I am losing a few to some predators... top minnows were less successful than the Cyprinella have been... and I have not lost a single flame chub yet... hoping they are breeding right now in the ice cold water!!!!). The depth of the stock tanks seem to help with predators and with thermal challenges (both hot and cold).
I would be concerned with such small volumes of water as the original poster mentioned. Joshaeus, aren't you in florida? I would think that you could keep lots of things outside year round... heck I have Flag Fish that have lived under the ice (I know, I know, its impossible... but they didn't spontaneously generate, so they did survive the ice, mysteries abound). I think you need a lot of shade and a small fish... if the snakes didnt eat them all you should be able to do L.omatta in your small volume... do it just like Erica's bucket tanks... only you can eliminate the fluorescent tubes and use the sun!
#8 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 04:40 PM
#9 Guest_Joshaeus_*
Posted 18 March 2014 - 05:05 PM
Edited by Joshaeus, 18 March 2014 - 05:06 PM.
#10 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 19 March 2014 - 09:43 AM
#11
Posted 19 March 2014 - 10:44 AM
Nope...I'm from New England. In any case, I think I'm just going to do these ponds indoors...outdoor container ponds sound problematic.
Dont give up... I had a nice group of sunfish in a in ground pond (125 gallons only about 3 feet deep) even in Cleveland Ohio... they were very trained to feeding from the deck... and survived all the winters I was up there. Of course as Subrosa mentioned, I was also using a predator exclusion device, mine was a Basset Hound that terrorized all the squirrels rabbits and other vermin. Another trick that would help with the temps and the predators is to keep the ponds close to the house and close to a door or something (not only will you go out more if it is close to the door, but will also be "scarier" to the predators.
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