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Posted by phoxinus Southern UK (My Page) on Mon, Mar 14, 05 at 8:43
Hi
Does anybody know where I can obtain some minnows for a new 'wildlife' garden pond? (I am based in UK on the South Coast). Are there any specialist fish suppliers. Or alternatively can anyone suggest some small native fish that won't eat all the other inhabitants of the pond.
Many thanks for your help.
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RE: Looking for Minnows
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Sticklebacks WILL eat all the other inhabitants!
Sorry don't know where you can get minnows. |
RE: Looking for Minnows
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| I have 12 minnows that my grand children brought me home from a paddling trip 18mths ago, i did not have the heart to tell them i did not want them, so i put them in my pond. They were only small then but when i see them again i suspect they will be full grown. I would gladly let you have some of them, but it is a long way from north yorkshire to the south coast. Bye the way it was some time after i got them that i read it was illegal to take them from the wild , also illegal to put them back, so i am stuck with them.I have to say they are easy to see when they are small but not so when they grow up. I am extending my pond this year, and i shall place my water fall top left of my pond, and my pump bottom left with no plants between, hopefully this will form a kind of stream, i will let you know how it goes. Bye the way have you any children/grandchildren?. |
RE: Looking for Minnows
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| Just realised that the latin name for minnow is phoxinus phoxinus--you must be very interested in them! I understand they are native to the North and East Coast and like fast flowing rivers or live in lakes coming into the shallows in the summer, preferring the deep otherwise. Do you have a very large pond??!!! I don't think stickelbacks are that voracious (just the big ones) compared to other fish and they do provide lots of fry for other creatures to eat. Just don't put them in with any other fish as their stickles can do a lot of damage. They are amusing to watch during breeding season. But then again, I am rather partial to them, so I am very biased. |
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