Creation of ponds on seasonal dachas – very widespread practice. To make the pond really interesting, owners of country houses try to complement it with unusual water plants and fishes. The live pond will not only be pleasing to your eye in the warm summer evenings, but also will bring some benefit in fight against insects.
It is necessary to approach a question of cultivation of pond fish very seriously. Otherwise you can receive the result other than your expectations. It is the best of all to get undemanding young small fishes in leaving. They will be able easily to take root in climate of our country and quickly enough will accustom on the new place.
Decorative fish for a pond
If you equip a pond to decorate the seasonal dacha, surely lodge in it decorative breeds of fishes. The Japanese carps which, goldfishes, small crucians and bleaks treat them.
Carps who have brightly painted scales and a coloring, unusual to pond fishes. They are very sluggish and unpretentious. The only condition for accommodation of carps, which in an artificial pond – existence of a system of biofiltration. These fishes eat water plants and special sterns which can be got without effort in pet-shops. Unlike carps which goldfishes are more mobile. They live on a surface of reservoirs and form flocks. Goldfishes eat seaweed and water fleas. Besides, they quickly breed therefore experts recommend to start initially in a pond no more than one flock of goldfishes. The small crucian will be ideal for a small pond. Such fish easily adapts to any conditions of dwelling. Small crucians are unpretentious in food and perfectly transfer winter at a depth from 1, 5 m. An interesting kind of decorative fishes for a pond is the bleak. This is a small small fish with silvery scales. She swims at great speed therefore it is better to part it in large reservoirs. A shortcoming of bleaks is the excessive gluttony. Such fishes very quickly eat water plants.
Pond fish for catching
If you love fishing and want to enjoy it on the bank of own reservoir, you should be engaged in cultivation of large breeds of fishes. The sazan, a carp, a tench, a silver carp, a perch, a pike, channel som and many others treat them. However in this case your artificial reservoir has to have the solid sizes. The microclimate of a pond needs also to be arranged under that breed of fish which you are going to part. For example, sturgeon fishes for full-fledged life in a pond need a natural feeding up, and deep reservoirs with cool water are simply necessary for a trout.
Quantity of fish in a reservoir
The overpopulation of a reservoir is fraught with death of all its inhabitants. Water in the overpopulated ponds begins to spoil quickly, especially in the absence of additional aeration. Therefore in artificial reservoirs you should not start a large number of fishes initially. By rules, about 50 liters of water rely upon one pond small fish of 10 centimeters.