I was looking in the pond tonight with a torch and snapped a couple of pics with my phone. I wanted to get a pic during the day to show the colours but they are too fast!
River Murray Rainbowfish Melanotaenia fluviatilis (Goulburn River) in pond at night #3
No these guys didn't get a heater but I was planning to. They went through winter in a 1000l pond (background) that got to ~8 C once or twice but mostly 10-12 C. . I stocked the pond with 19 juvi fish and I have 12 mature now. I cant really say the losses were due to winter because I have no idea what the post stocking survival rate was. Impossible to count in a planted pond and with duckweed/azolla I really didn't see them much.
These guys are now in a 3000l pond (foreground) that is a lot more open so I can see them and I'm training them into clear water at feeding time with blackworms and live brine shrimp purely for my entertainment!
The 1000l pond has now got pygmy perch (also very hard to see apart from feeding time!) - damn azolla taking over now.
