Moving fish

rje66

I hope to move 3 goldfish (8inches long) from my mums pond to mine . Distance appox 90 miles, but time could be 2 or 3 hours.
Anyone got some good advice?...

magicbastarder

do you already have fish in your pond? reason i ask is that it'll reduce the biodiversity of your pond if you don't already; just in case that's something you woudl regard as an issue.

Silverfish

rje66 wrote: »

I hope to move 3 goldfish (8inches long) from my mums pond to mine . Distance appox 90 miles, but time could be 2 or 3 hours.
Anyone got some good advice?...

One of the 90L plastic tubs with lids from woodies or wherever, half fill it with pond water as the oxygen as important as the quantity of water, should be grand.

When moving them over, fill it gradually with the new pond water over a few hours until you've a 50/50 mix, then release them.

Lumen

Temperature changes kill fish.

blackbox

Silverfish wrote: »

One of the 90L plastic tubs with lids from woodies or wherever, half fill it with pond water as the oxygen as important as the quantity of water, should be grand.

When moving them over, fill it gradually with the new pond water over a few hours until you've a 50/50 mix, then release them.

Before you use a new tub be sure to wash and rinse it well. New plastic items can have traces of release agent from the moulding process.

Silverfish

blackbox wrote: »

Before you use a new tub be sure to wash and rinse it well. New plastic items can have traces of release agent from the moulding process.

Yeah, forgot about that bit, mine are so old I didn't remember.
Try and get foodsafe ones if possible, they'll have a knife and fork logo.

rje66

magicbastarder wrote: »

do you already have fish in your pond? reason i ask is that it'll reduce the biodiversity of your pond if you don't already; just in case that's something you woudl regard as an issue.

My pond is a new one so these will prob be the first ones in, but im not in a rush to move them.
Is it a good idea to get some silt/sludge from botton of established pond to introduce new organisims etc to my pond??
Also my pond will be appox 800lts, only have access to tap water. So should i fill well in advance to allow clorine etc to disappear??

FR85

If you could get a filter pad from your mums filter and place it in your own filter it will help with bacteria forming, at this time of the year though bacteria is dormant so it may or may not help. Rocks that maybe in your mums pond will also have bacteria on them so you could transfer some of these too. I assume you will have a filter running??

Yes, fill the pond and let chlorine and the likes disappear, you can get additives to assist in this and for a 700l pond it wouldn't be too expensive to add these.

rje66

Thanks for replies.
No filters, hers is natural with just oxygenating plants.
Mine is simple enough,
Pump and spout keep oxygen levels up and lots of plants.