| Unintentional fish in garden wildlife pond
When we started our wildlife pond a few months ago we took a couple of scoops of “muck” from two places to give the pond a kick start.
The first place was a local woodland pond, the second place was a local weir pool.
Anyhow, all looks to be very well, lots of life in the water, teeming with all sorts of microbes, beetles, shrimp, snails, larvae etc
What I have notices is that I’ve a small shoal of very small fish (about 8 to 10), various sizes, some of which look like they perhaps only just hatched.
I guess we must of picked up some eggs in the silt etc - I guess from the weir pool, so I'm starting to realise that was not such a smart thing to do.
Problem is, it’s very difficult to identify the species at the moment, and I’m guessing until they get a little larger they should be OK left in there.
It would be my intention to pull them out perhaps once I know what they are and return then to where they came from. |