The Best Types Of Fish For Your Garden Pond
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Article by: Anne Clarke There are many reasons as to why you might want to have fish , Controlling Aphids in your garden , Dog Days of Summer pond - they add beauty, color, , Garlic: The Stinking Rose and interest to your garden , Garlic: The Stinking Rose and act as a sort of outdoor , Controlling Aphids "pet." But there are other good reasons for putting fish , Create and Furnish Your Outdoor Room in your pond, , Marble Mosaic Art as well. For one, fish , When to Fly Old Glory will eat pesky mosquitoes as well as pond , Design The Desert Landscape Of Your Dreams algae. Overall, pond , Names Of Spring Flowers fish are also fairly easy to care for, too. Now that I have convinced you to get some fish , Solar Lights for Walkways - Cut Costs for your garden , A Guide To Japanese s pond, let us go over a few types of popular outdoor , Six Good Reasons For Going Organic pond fish , The Flower Drying Game - Part 2: Sand or Glycerin? - most outdoor , Design The Desert Landscape Of Your Dreams pond fish , The Magic of Annual Vines are freshwater-coldwater types. Comet goldfish This type of goldfish is going to be able to handle varied conditions in your pond , Accentuate Your Home with an Address Plaque - this includes varied conditions due to weather, , Bonsai Trees as well as conditions due to your inexperience with pond , Patio Design Expanding Your Home Outdoors fish. Comet fish , Palm Trees For Sale can endure variations in both temperature , Garlic: The Stinking Rose and water , Design The Desert Landscape Of Your Dreams quality. Comet goldfish are distinguishable by their long single tails - like a comet. They come in a variety of colors, , Marble Mosaic Art including red and white. , Tips about Flower Care Also, comet goldfish tend to be fairly inexpensive. Chances are, your comet gold fish , Solar Lights for Walkways - Cut Costs will live for 14 years and grow , Marble Mosaic Art up to 10 inches long. Shubunkin goldfish (aka calico goldfish) This is a very interesting goldfish - like a common goldfish, shubunkin goldfish have long bodies and a single tail, but they are brightly colored in a mix of fantastic colors"¦ red, brown, blue, , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil yellow, and violet. They are also distinguished by black spots on their bodies and tails. This is a very tough goldfish type. Make sure that your pond , How To Choose The Right Lawnmower For Your Garden Lawn has plenty of plants , Harry Lauder's Walking Stick and open areas for swimming. If you have shubunkin goldfish, do not put telescope goldfish or bubble eye goldfish (and other slow swimming fish) in with them - they might end up starving because shubunkin goldfish will get to the food , General Lawn Maintenance Tips first"¦ and they do not share. Rather, you should get your shubunkins a koi , Gypsum Valuable Input for Agriculture or two as buddies. Koi Koi range from very inexpensive to very expensive - there is quite a variety as to the type and quality of koi. , Relaxation in the Garden Starts with a Hammock By quality, I am referring to the color , A Guide To Landscape Bridges and patterns displayed on the koi's scales. As abovementioned, koi , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil can cohabitate with other goldfish like comets and shubunkins very well. Koi , Names Of Spring Flowers can grow , The Most Essential Gardening Equipment to be several feet long, and they can live from 25-50 years! Some people think that koi , Controlling Aphids are gold fish, , Choosing the Perfect Landscape Painting but they are only distant cousins to the goldfish - they are actually much more closely related to the common carp. While koi , Beauty After life - Plants For Drying - Grasses can handle a wide range of temperatures, , Marble Mosaic Art as sudden change , The Flower Drying Game - Part 2: Sand or Glycerin? in temperature , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil can affect them adversely. Koi , Bonsai Trees will get along with other tropical fish, , Seed Starting Tips as well. Whichever type of fish , Bonsai Trees that you decide to get for your pond, , Like Fall Flowers - A Tip To Care For Your Winter Garden be sure that you get ones that will cohabitate well and ones that are durable (like the abovementioned types of fish). Also make sure that you do not try to stick too many fish , The Flower Drying Game - Part 2: Sand or Glycerin? in too small of a pond. , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil Consider having only one inch of fish , How To Build A Waterfall per gallon of pond water. , How to Build a Fence A 10 foot by 10 foot pond , Summer Gardening is All Weeding and Watering! can typically support about 20 five inch fish"¦ This math equation might be a bit too much - a general rule of thumb is to start with just a few, and go from there. Remember that your fish , Dog Days of Summer will grow! , Beauty After life - Plants For Drying - Grasses Just a note: If you are new to having fish , Palm Trees For Sale in your pond, , Marble Mosaic Art you may want to avoid fantail varieties - these are not quite as durable as other types of goldfish.Anne Clarke writes numerous articles for websites on gardening, , The Most Essential Equipment parenting, fashion, and home , Gardening Supplies decor. Her background includes teaching and gardening. , Growing and Harvesting Dill For more of her articles on fish , Six Good Reasons For Going Organic and ponds, , Create and Furnish Your Outdoor Room please visit Pond , How to Build a Fence Filters. |
  
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