r/miniponds

These soldiers were in the pond section at a garden centre. Pennywort. 🙂

I have my little patio pond with a solar filter. I treated the water with prime on the first fill and whenever it gets topped off. There’s a bunch of water lettuce and a sad looking hyacinth. I forget the name of the floaters and the other aquatic plant but it’s a CA native. There are four medaka in there too. Lately the plants have been looking sad. Any advice?

Hi! I’m new to hobby ponds, please be kind.

I have a new set up, roughly 18-20 gallons, with Hornwort, Elodea, Christmas moss, Chromatella Lily, and Pink Pickerel. I want to add more plants eventually but need a light and housing for my Lily asap. Does anyone have suggestions for a low profile outdoor spotlight and/or lightbulbs they prefer? Appreciate any insight but especially on the light situation.

Mini pond fed by ac drip line, overflows into 2 smaller trays to divert away from building. Total area is 5’x10’. Pickerel weed has been the most impressive grower so far, it’s basically quadrupled in size. I just cleaned some frogbit to create more open water to hopefully reduce the hair algae. Created for Pedro, RIP little buddy

they’re blue lotus or water lily that’s what the package said

My son and I made this little pond. It as a pump and we have tested ph, ammonia etc.
any suggestions to improve it?
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I believe this calamus would be happier in a bigger pot. It looks like it wants to grow! Suggestions for potting substrate? Assuming I can break it up without hurting it?

Also will take any other suggestions. Started this because eventually 🤞 I’ll have a bigger pond & I wanted to start collecting plants for it now.

I don’t do much to this galvanized bin- just make sure the calamus isn’t too submerged by emptying water or propping it up high.

I have an outdoor pond that I had two large fish in and recently the owner of the house brought like 20+ fish over from his friends pond that he was draining. I have lots of water lettuce, duckweed, etc and put terra cotta pots in the pond for hideouts because I know they can become stressed and need a safe place to hide. I saw this cute little 3D printed fish hammock online that I got but it is TINY

I have made three little sections to keep the plants growing and provide shade. I like to do DIY projects so I got these plastic globes that go together similarly to an Easter egg. I drilled holes in it with my tool but they’re clear so I’m trying to figure out what I can safely glue around them that also looks nice in the pond and provides shade

I’m also totally open to other ideas, thanks so much!!

I have lost several Medaka over the last week or so.

But now I am noticing one of my two oldest (still only a few months) fish has gotten clear stripes on her back basically overnight. And she has a tiny red dot on her side. I had a toddler Medaka with a similar spot.

Of the 6 toddlers and 6 teenager Medaka I had, I can now only find twoish toddlers, and 3-4 teens.

I was assuming some sort of predator. But now with the discoloration (which I guess could just be adult colors coming in, but it was sudden) and the red dots, I’m concerned for the rest.

I can’t get a good photo of the one today. But here is one of the toddlers from the other day with a red dot.

I did water test strips a couple of days ago and everything was fine.

ETA: there are also a few newborn fry in there

So have just made a start on our first mini pond😅 not the best looking but it’s a start😂
Any other recommendations? X
(White outline is from the gravel still settling!)

Been working on this pond a couple of weeks now and I'm super proud of it! No stock so far but we're going to add some pond snails and probably a few minnows, it's 190L/42gal so not really sure what would be best. Any suggestions welcome!

I noticed not everyone was pumped about their 10am feeding this morning. When I moved aside some plants to take a head count, I can see that a couple of the girls look to be carrying eggs! They've only been in this setup for 13 days and I wasn't even sure they were mature, so I was not quite ready for this. But I do have extra tubs with extra floating plants that I can move the eggs to. I am brand new to water gardening and medaka, so any and all thoughts are welcome! There are 7 medaka in this 20gal outdoor mini pond.

It’s the 15g poly resin stock tank from Lowe’s. It’s 8” deep. I have 3 pavers in the back for caves/plant shelves and a titanium hygger 50w heater on a thermostatically controlled outlet to keep it ice clear in Denver winters. Small 800L/hour submersible pump and 1/2” tubing to the gargoyle. TMI but just in case anyone else wants more deets.

Oh, I am so excited I was just out and the fountain was wonky and I went to adjust it and a little frog jumped! There is a frog in my pond! What do I need to make sure it’s in there for this frog. he was about an inch long and I didn’t get a very good look at him. Here is my current set up. That container is one of those plastic half barrel planters. I have 4 comet fish in there.

First time poster, and I've finally got round to making a mini pond. I've lived in rented properties for several years and I've always wanted a little pond and I'm so happy I've made one.

I have experience with freshwater biology (mostly invertebrates and diatoms) and I work in a water chemistry lab at work so I'm able to check pH, nitrates, phosphates, ammonia etc. myself, but I'd like some advice from some more experienced mini pond architects as I've never kept fish before.

I have a few ramshorn snails in there, and whatever invertebrates have made their own way in, but would there be any fish that would be able to survive in here? I've held off getting any as I'm not sure it would be suitable for them.

The pond is around 50L (depth 43cm, diameter 36cm)and have a solar aerator, some engineering bricks at the bottom, stones, and some driftwood logs. I live in south east England so it gets quite a lot of sun but can drop below freezing in the winter.

Are there any fish that could thrive in this as a home? Or if not what other wildlife could I add to add a bit more life to my pond and potentially eat some of the mosquito larvae? I'm looking at getting some Gammarus pulex but I'm open to any suggestions.

Thank you!