native fish to buy

topshaw · #1 (**permalink**) 14-07-2007, 11:50 PM

Can anyone advise me the best place to buy small native fish for my pond e.g. sticklebacks and minnows ?

aeshna5 · #2 (**permalink**) 15-07-2007, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by topshaw

Can anyone advise me the best place to buy small native fish for my pond e.g. sticklebacks and minnows ?

Think you've placed this in wrong section!

Mr Mag00 · #3 (**permalink**) 15-07-2007, 11:27 AM

don't do it they'll prevent lots of other species especially invertes and amphibians from establishing themselves in your pond.

Dogghound · #4 (**permalink**) 15-07-2007, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Mag00

don't do it they'll prevent lots of other species especially invertes and amphibians from establishing themselves in your pond.

Sticklebacks have little if any affect on amphibians, they mainly eat blood worm and daphnia, as well as other small invertibrates, they are a natural species and provide food other than tadpoles for your dragonfly larva and the large water beetle species larva

Paul mabbott · #5 (**permalink**) 15-07-2007, 07:16 PM

Here we go again ... fish do not naturally live in ponds - they live in rivers, lakes or oceans. If you put predatory fish into a pond you will eradicate almost all wildlife .... so if you're aiming for a wildlife pond, do not put fish in it ...

Dogghound · #6 (**permalink**) 15-07-2007, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Here we go again ... fish do not naturally live in ponds - they live in rivers, lakes or oceans. If you put predatory fish into a pond you will eradicate almost all wildlife .... so if you're aiming for a wildlife pond, do not put fish in it ...

Fish naturally colonize ponds due to the transport of eggs, species such as the perch Perca fluviatilis does this affectively using the legs of waterfoul, smaller ponds often become full of stunted fish, eels move across land to ponds etc, but yes in general a wildlife pond is best without fish.