Little bitty fish

Today at work someone returned more fish, so I brought some of them home with me. Three are little feeder sized goldfish, a calico fantail, and a gold fantail. They like to hide from the bigger fish in the roots of the plants.

A few more fish

Today we added a white reflective butterfly koi, a black and white koi, a comet, and two little shebunkins that are really difficult to see.

Frog pond

We were going to fill in this little pond that I was just using for some of the extra plants. When a frog decided to make it his home, we decided to leave it for him.

Plant growth

The hyacinths are getting bigger,

 water lettuce is continuing to divide,

 and the first of the lilies is going to bloom.

Fish!

Last night we added two more fish to the pond. A reflective yellow koi, and a white koi with orange on his head. They immediately hid with the other fish.

This morning, we went out to try feeding them. At first nothing happened, but then they all started to come up! It took a while before we saw them all, but even the black moor came up. The older fish are quite a bit larger than they were the last time we saw them.

Lily pads

The lily pads are starting to get really big, and the pond is starting to get really clear! Still no filter on it. The fish are still really skittish though, and we don't see much of them.

Lettuce

The water lettuce is beginning to divide!

Clearing

In the middle of June, the pond finally started to clear up. This was with no filter of any sort. We also added two more fish, a reflective white koi and a white, orange, and black koi.

Radioactive!

As the plants grew, the pond started to become a more and more intense green color. These are the first lilies to make it to the top.

The Pond

When we set up the pond in March, it was nothing more than a hole in the ground filled with water. We put the fish in it, and pretty much forgot about them.

The water was murky, and you couldn't see the fish.

In May, my dad gave me some plants for the pond. Three lily pads and some floating plants.

For a week or so you couldn't see the lilies or the fish, so we had no idea what was alive in the pond and what was not. Eventually the pond started to clear up, and we could catch glimpses of the fish and began to see the lilies coming up.