they also lay their eggs on the sides of the water lily stems. There was a couple I put some filters on for, we cleaned their pond one time, and they had 120 large goldfish. The only way they would part with any was if I bought them. Since they fed them an expensive fish food with shrimp in it their color was gorgeous, so I would buy a few at a time, the husband would catch them for me, and I was paying them $7.50 apiece for these gold fish during the early 2000s. The wife would get in the deep part of the pond and remove the eggs from the lily stems. They loved their pond and their fish. Texas doesn't have the extreme cold that makes over stocking dangerous. Instead we have the extreme heat. But they had shade and a really long stream and our alkaline water is not as prone to acidification. Their pond had concrete streams that leached alkalinity and supported the system. But the only filters were the 2 I built, before that there weren't any
I do not put gravel in the bottom of my ponds, traps too much debris and the filter doesn't work as well if the garbage is in the gravel.
