Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Overrun with big goldfish- restocking options??

Aha! A while ago when I first joined this site I mentioned a goldfish that did not stir the bottom, and were schooling at willow ponds aqua farms. Now I know what they are! Thanks.

Speaking of goldfish...

Our pond started its life as a stormwater run off overflow pond when the street went in about 25 years ago. It filled in badly, so when we excavated for the house we pumped down the pond and redug it. Somehow a large goldfish showed up. Not sure if it stayed in the murk that was left in the bottom before we started to refill it or if someone passed by and 'donated' it to the pond. It looked all swollen in the belly and some what misshapen. We rarely saw it through the summer and did not see it in the fall. It stuck out like a neon sign so we figured a kingfisher or coon got it.

We had very hard winter with record ice for months and expected nothing would live through the winter. This spring what do we see but a normal appearing adult goldfish about 8" long and a single baby goldfish about 3" long swimming with it this spring. Now, where is the baby-daddy?

What is the chance with one adult and one juvenile goldfish that we will get more? My feeling is that someone dumped an aquarium goldfish into our pond (probably pregnant at the time even?) but one can never tell...

I don't think a 3" goldfish is a baby..

Someone tossed some Koi in to my pond several years ago, haven't seen them lately but that will probably be my next problem...CARP