You can come by our office between the hours of 8:00 and 12:00 (Monday to Friday) or by appointment, to pick up mosquito fish. Please bring a 5-gallon bucket with you to carry them in.

Mosquito fish are available free of charge to residents with rock garden pools, lily ponds or farm ponds. These fish are prolific breeders and will consume great numbers of mosquito larvae and pupae. They should not be placed with bass, bluegills, or goldfish, since they soon become prey for the larger fish.

Gambusia are classified as a non-native, not allowed species, and are currently not legal for distribution in Washington state. An alternative is to stock ponds with goldfish, which also eat mosquitoes, although not as quickly as Gambusia. Mosquito "dunks," that float of the surface of water and are impregnated with a pesticide that kills mosquito larvae, are available for purchase at garden and farm supply stores.

All violations of water use restrictions will be taken seriously. If you wish to make a formal complaint, Thames Water would be grateful if you alerted them via a written statement.

In addition to the stocking program offered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, there are several other local, statewide and regional sources of fish for stocking ponds. Most local county soil and water districts sell a variety of fish species. Also, there are numerous private fish dealers and hatcheries throughout the Midwest that supply and deliver live fish. A listing of these fish dealers can be obtained from the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Fisheries.

New and reclaimed ponds are eligible for stocking of fish from our ODWC hatcheries. A fish application form can be obtained from any ODWC hatchery office or biologist or the fish division office in OKC. If you would like to purchase fish to stock your pond, call (405) 521-3721 for a list of commercial hatcheries.

Mosquitos generally lay their eggs in stagnant water. If any do lay their eggs in your naturally balanced pond, the fish will see the larvae as a treat. Your skimmer will take care of anything your fish miss.

Mosquitoes will generally only lay their eggs in still, stagnate water. If mosquitoes happen to lay eggs in your pond a couple of things help control this. One, your water is constantly moving and being turned over into the skimmer. And two, your fish love to gobble these guys up. There are also many products that you can add to your water to kill the larvae as well.

Feeding is not recommended as a normal procedure in pond management. Caution must be exercised not to use too much food. Too much unused food in a pond may cause a fish kill due to the decomposition process. However, if you insist on feeding your fish, there are several animal food manufacturers offer fish food pellets for sale. These foods are used most successfully in trout and catfish culture. However, pelleted fish food can also be used by the pond owner to feed bluegill.

New ponds can have one inch of fish per square foot of pond surface. Older, established ponds can have two to three inches of fish per square foot of pond surface. New ponds need to be declorinated. Back to top

Another problem is that floods may wash away the banks. To avoid this you should not construct a pond in a gully where heavy floods occur. Large gully would not be good place for the construction of a pond.

Water for growing fish should not be clear and transparent. It should be greenish in colour. The green colour means that the water has lots of small plants called Algae, which provide food for the fish. (Applied only for carp farming).

In some areas, where soils are acidic, lime must be added. The lime can be spread on the bottom of the pond, or it can be thrown into the water.

With good filtration, a good formula to us is: one goldfish for every 10 to 20 gallons or one koi for every 100 to 200 gallons. This allows the fish to reach mature size.

Fish are available at the Montessa Park facility, Eastside Animal Services, and at Albuquerque Water Garden.

Crappie are not usually recommended in bass ponds under 100 surface acres. A prolific spawner, crappie in small bodies of water will usually compete directly with bass for food and produce not only slow-growing crappie but slow-growing bass as well. They are also known to reduce small bass survival by preying directly on young bass. You may know of a pond with both good size bass and crappie, but these are rare.

The easiest way to do this is to invest in a pond heater. This will keep the water from freezing over in a specific area. Alternatively, leave a large plastic ball on the surface of the pond, as the ball's constant movement will prevent the water from freezing. A common cause of this is simply the overgrowth of your aquatic plants. The best way to deal with this is to unmat the plants, and then divide them.

It is a good idea to allow the fish two complete years for growth before any harvest. In the second year following the bass stocking, sometime between May and July, the bass spawn for their first time. Bass do not reproduce until they are two years old. Initial panfish harvest is permissible by mid-July of the second year following the bass stocking. Remember that channel catfish do not usually reproduce in ponds so harvest should keep pace with restocking plans.

Not likely. Opossums are rather lazy and will always seek out readily available food whenever possible. It is not generally industrious enough to catch fish or try to attack an animal that might fight back. The disappearance of fish or chickens is more likely due to a racoon, fox, or badger. If you see an opossum eating your fish, most likely it came across the remains that another creature left behind on the bank.

If you construct good ponds and manage them well. Carp will be big enough and so you can start fishing them out within about a period of two years from first stocking and thereafter every year by the replenishing the stock simultaneously. The family will have good Nutritious Food to eat and surplus can be sold for profit.

The colour of water is indicator whether the pond has enough fish food in the pond or not. So the colour of the water is very vital important factor to make a start in the fish culture.

It is home to large mouth bass, bullhead, and crappie. A stocking program for large mouth bass in 1993-1995 has been very successful, and it will be repeated in the future if necessary. On July 4, 2000, a 20-inch, 4.5 pound bass was caught and released on Barney Pond.

Our rule of thumb for number of fish is to have 1" of fish for every 1 sq. ft. of pond surface area.

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Yes. Fish and snails play a vital part in maintaining cleanliness of a pond. The fish will eat the mosquito larvae and the snails are extremely good at cleaning the pond sides. Both these animals can be destructive if they breed to excess or grow too large. They can then start eating the plant life, which will cause the water to become dirty quickly. Home | What is New | Kits Suggestions | Self-contained Units | Ponds | Waterfalls | Cascades | Creeks

Several kinds of fish such as Koi, Comet, Fancy Gold Fish, Shubunkins, as well as snails, frogs and turtles.

The rule of thumb is one inch of fish per square foot of surface area. Take the measurements of the longest width and length of the pond and multiply together. This amount will equal the inches of fish allowed.

Make sure you don't overload your pond's ecosystem with too many fish. For a new pond, a good rule of thumb is one inch of fish per square foot of surface area. A mature pond can support two to three inches of fish per square foot. Once your pond is built, add the fish a few at a time over the course of 30 days to ensure that the pond and filter are biologically ready to support aquatic life.