Luckily at this point I have just one $3.00 goldfish in the pond. The rest of the fish are minnows that I "liberated" from the retention pond. My garden pond is young, just two years old at this time, and I was not about to put a lot of money into fancy fish until I learned I could handle the pond. Now I know that, I won't put a lot of money into critters in the pond, Mother Nature will do all the entertaining that I want! LOL