My Pond Reached 37 Degrees Today

[Gurglar]

So I just measured the temp of the pond around midday and it was up to a hot 37 degrees celsius!!

Now I was gonna put goldfish in it but not sure if thats such a good idea, the pond does not have a cover at the moment so is in direct sunlight until after midday so I am going to be building a roof type structure for it before fish get put in so the temps might drop a fair bit with the cover over it.

So is there any type of fish that I could put in it?

 

[erk628]

So I just measured the temp of the pond around midday and it was up to a hot 37 degrees celsius!!

Now I was gonna put goldfish in it but not sure if thats such a good idea, the pond does not have a cover at the moment so is in direct sunlight until after midday so I am going to be building a roof type structure for it before fish get put in so the temps might drop a fair bit with the cover over it.

So is there any type of fish that I could put in it?

How many gallons is your pond?

 

[hihi100202]

koi

 

[simonas]

blimey mines about minus 37 at the moment where abouts are you Oz?

 

[Gurglar]

Its only a little 70 gallon pond an old bath tub.

Simonas yes I am in Australia up in QLD where it is god dam hot

I'm thinking if I can't get it cool enough with some cover i'll go with some electric yellows or some sort of cichlids since they get a reasonable size.

 

[Pipe Dream]

lets just say it's not a pond, it's an old bath tub. and once this is established, those 37 degrees stops being a mystery, what remain a mystery is why you would call an old tub a pond and subsequently wonder why the water's boiling in mid summer quensland sun.

you wouldn't put a dog in a microwave oven, would you? or would you. let's assume you wouldn't then why would you put cichlids in that deep fryer?

 

[furry catfish]

Well he said he would cool it and I think you should do the same,Im sure guglar has the health of his fish in mind when he his planning his pond.

 

[mr130gallon]

off topic: but oooh nice one furry catfish, that was clever...

anyway when you get a shade for the tub and get fish in there you should show us some pics

 

[Pipe Dream]

anyway when you get a shade for the tub and get fish in there you should show us some pics

i found the "before" picture.

http/i89.photobucket.com/albums/k237/1verylucky1/MY%20FAIRY%20GARDEN/fairygarden.jpg

 

[Knox213]

no way could that have any type of fish in would neverp ut any fish in there.

Not even a Koi. A Koi grows WAY bigger

 

[furry catfish]

probably an obvious question and may slightly offend you but are you talking about the one pipe just put up or the bath tub?

lol im ashamed for asking

 

[Knox213]

both i could never do it.

EVER

 

[furry catfish]

why not the bath tub? if he cools it with Ice and shade I can't see why he couldn'thouse chichlids.but then again I was never very good at predicting what would happen if I did something

 

[Knox213]

1) Rust is Toxic To Fish from what i heard.
2) Metal conducts heat. thus heating/boiling the water
3) Shade is there for limited time
4) 75 Gallons cant realy hold much.
5) Some metal particals ARE toxic to fish.
6) Who would both? A Plastic pond only costs £60 From ebay.
7) How would he put the filter in etc?

hope that naswered a few questions for you

 

[furry catfish]

Thanks that's what I mean by "I am never very good at predicting what would happen if I did something"