You could not keep me out of places like this when I was a kid. Boats, action figures, etc. Heck, Im about to be 56 and you still cant keep me out of places like this. The underwater world has fascinated me my entire life. One of the best and most interesting garden ponds I have ever seen.
Mosquito fish (Gambusia) is restricted where I live. The ones you see here similar are guppies. All fish you see here, except mollies are OK for the whole year where I live. We removed the mollies later on.
@@marianoaran I’ve never thought Australia would be too cold I’m now in Ireland so I only keep boring minnows and stickle backs etc in my pond They can’t die even the pond is frozen
@@rraqua1279 There are many different climates in Australia, but where I am it's subtropical. In winter we get around 10°C, so it's not that bad, but mollies don't do well below 18°C... We also kept angel fish during most of the year for them to reproduce closer to how they do in the wild, but we also removed them in winter as they also don't like temps lower than 18°C ~20°C... Did you see that video of the pond with the Angel fish?
hahaha, thank you Dino! We're in Sunshine Coast in Australia, subtropical climate. All these fish, except for the Mollies go happily through winter. Mollies have to be netted out and put in the aquarium for winter. Same thing we did with Angelfish (we have another video showing this).
Mariano Aran . Hmm.. I thought Australia stayed warm all year long. Funny, I was looking at property in Bunbury for something to do about a week ago. Seemed like a nice place. Housing there seems to have a lot of additional costs/taxes. Here in California our winters dip pretty low too for some species. I have a very small pond with mollies and Swordtails in it. Nothing like yours. Small enough for a heater to keep in the high 70s, low 80 on some days.
@@myrrhavm Australia is almost the same size as US and there are different regions/climates :) Yes, heater is not an option for us, but these were experiments we did at the beginning. We ended up stocking the pond with native fish in the end as it was easier and safe in case of overflow in a rain event, to prevent exotic fish didn't flow down the drain to local creeks.
Hi Sonny, monodactylus argenteus :) They didn't do well in the pond unfortunately as they need brackish water to reproduce and eventually they need sea water as well.
Thanks! Can't recall the plants name except for the easy ones Vallisnerias and Elodeas. Got them all from here, check them out www.liverpoolcreekaquariums.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Are you from Australia because some of these fish look like Australian natives also where these fish wild caught because I’m from Australia and I been looking to catch wild platy in Australia
Hi Oscar. Yes, we're in sunshine coast, qld. Platys are feral fish and not native to australia and unfortunately they are in many waterways. These ones in the pond were bought from an aquarium shop :)
Hello :) 12,000 Litres (Approx 3,000 gallons). This was the pond in winter, so we has platties, swordtails, mollies, guppies and rosie barbs amongst the exotic fish... and also some Australian natives, like rainbowfish, empire gudgeons, blue eyes, monos...
They are monodactylus argenteus. 100% agree with Running River comment. They lived here for a long time but didn't t thrive, didn't grow much and didn't reproduce. Ended up being a cruel to keep them in the pond :(
It has a pump to circulate water. Filtration is done by plants and beneficial bacteria. It’s a natural system that doesn’t use any chemicals. This video shows how it has been built. ua-cam.com/video/eW0Mrj-G-do/v-deo.html
@@marianoaran ooo okay cool I actually have an indoor 620l brackish pond with archers, scats, freshwater lionfish, figure 8 puffers and I'm looking to get some mono angels again but sebae not the ones you have
@@delilahswan4496 The large silver fish you mentioned are Melanotaenia duboulayi (crimson-spotted rainbowfish). These fish are native to the area where I live in Australia. This video is from 2017, since then we have learned a lot. We have re-stocked the pond a few times until we settled only on native fish from the area where we live that were collected from nearby water bodies. We had many fish tanks as well but they are all gone now :) The pond filtration is done ONLY by plants roots. We never clean it (we only harvest plants from time to time) and the water is crystal clear :) The wouldorganisms that grow in the pond naturally. All species that currently live in the pond (as of Feb 2021) seem to be be stable, rainbow fishbeginning
@@marianoaran the brackish pond isn't that difficult to maintain I have a backwash for water changes java fern with little gravel and like I said it's 620l so it's not that big. And it's relatively new so I only currently have 9 fish because I live in South Africa in a small town so getting uncommon fish is really difficult but I'm slowly building up. I've kept brackish since 2019 and freshwater fish for nearly 10 years now. If you don't mind, if you have a social media platform like Instagram or Twitter you don't mind sharing on UA-cam I can DM you with videos of my pond currently if you're interested. And we could just generally exchange knowledge but if not I completely understand aswell. I could also share my Instagram handle if you're more comfortable with that
That one is called Empire Gudgeon. In this video we're feeding young ones ua-cam.com/video/TAHnvXO0WuU/v-deo.html They bring their colouration when they are in breeding mode, or when we feed them as a way of showing dominance I think.
These are local native fish - Empire Gudgeon (Hypseleotris compressa). At that stage there was only one male so it didn't fully colour up. Here's another video with this fish in a tank, but I will upload a better one in a few minutes... ua-cam.com/video/Cqgo_v5Cox0/v-deo.html
You could not keep me out of places like this when I was a kid. Boats, action figures, etc. Heck, Im about to be 56 and you still cant keep me out of places like this. The underwater world has fascinated me my entire life. One of the best and most interesting garden ponds I have ever seen.
The underwater world fascinates us too :) - Thanks for your comments Brannon :)))
Wow I love how there is lots of different kinds of fish and the live plants make it look so beautiful.
Thank you!
Wonderful. In another 20/30 years, we'll be able to have an outdoor pond with some of those fish in the UK :-)
As sad as that is... :(
Thank you!!! Super pound!Amazing fishes!
Thank you for visiting :)
Beautiful
Thank you :-)
its amazing how all the fish come out to you
The magic of food! ;-)
hahah
you should upload heaps more videos and vlog a video of you buying heaps more fish for the ponds
This is beautiful!
Thank you
I always wanted to swim underwater to see such world, but I just cant swim. Thanks to invention of camera, it simply made things better.
Thanks for your comment :) I totally agree with you!
Awesome pond, you must live in a good climate to be able to keep those fish in a pond all the time.
Thanks David. Yes, we live in QLD, Australia. It's not cold in winter here.
I like the way the fish are nosey and come to look at the camera... like WTF is this in our home? ha ha
hahaha
intruders!!! lol
Wow it's so beautiful
Thanks :)
this beautifully set up pond aquarium is completely relaxing. i was hoping part of the vid would have shown Daphnia and mosquito larvae being eaten.
Thank you Louis. That would be a difficult thing to film ;-)
Awesome..It's so beautiful!!
Thanks :)
@@marianoaran Can you make more videos about rhis pond in 2019?I love this pond.Plz..
@@염지호-q2b Will do soon :)
@@marianoaran Thanks!!
that mono fish r gorgeous additions to ur pond 😍😍😍
i rly wanted to get myself mono fish but it is rare in my place..
Thanks! They are also brackish water fish, so they are only OK in a freshwater tank for a few months, then, they need salt to live a healthy life.
so you would add some salt into the pond sometimes? how'd you keep them healthy??
The pond is freshwater. These fish were moved out of the pond into a brackish tank a few months ago...
God will bless you for providing such a wonderfull envirment for fishes..
Thank you Maddy :)
Mariano Aran welcome bro.
really cool footage
Thank you! :)
How cool is this! 👌☺👌
Thanks Roel! :)
amazing, but you must live in a warm place to have most of those fish
Thank you! Yes, we live in a subtropical region.
Very cool!
Thanks :-)
Amazing bro outstanding love this pond upload more vidio
Thank you! :) Will upload more videos soon
glad you put other livebrearer instead of mosquito fish
Sad that where I live are too cold for them
Mosquito fish (Gambusia) is restricted where I live. The ones you see here similar are guppies. All fish you see here, except mollies are OK for the whole year where I live. We removed the mollies later on.
@@marianoaran I’ve never thought Australia would be too cold
I’m now in Ireland so I only keep boring minnows and stickle backs etc in my pond
They can’t die even the pond is frozen
@@rraqua1279 There are many different climates in Australia, but where I am it's subtropical. In winter we get around 10°C, so it's not that bad, but mollies don't do well below 18°C... We also kept angel fish during most of the year for them to reproduce closer to how they do in the wild, but we also removed them in winter as they also don't like temps lower than 18°C ~20°C... Did you see that video of the pond with the Angel fish?
@@rraqua1279 Amazing that those little fish can live even when the pond freezes...
Cool first name. Better last name. Very cool pond. Lots of variety. Where are you located? How's it keep over winter?
hahaha, thank you Dino! We're in Sunshine Coast in Australia, subtropical climate. All these fish, except for the Mollies go happily through winter. Mollies have to be netted out and put in the aquarium for winter. Same thing we did with Angelfish (we have another video showing this).
Mariano Aran . Hmm.. I thought Australia stayed warm all year long. Funny, I was looking at property in Bunbury for something to do about a week ago. Seemed like a nice place. Housing there seems to have a lot of additional costs/taxes.
Here in California our winters dip pretty low too for some species. I have a very small pond with mollies and Swordtails in it. Nothing like yours. Small enough for a heater to keep in the high 70s, low 80 on some days.
@@myrrhavm Australia is almost the same size as US and there are different regions/climates :) Yes, heater is not an option for us, but these were experiments we did at the beginning. We ended up stocking the pond with native fish in the end as it was easier and safe in case of overflow in a rain event, to prevent exotic fish didn't flow down the drain to local creeks.
Incredible!
Thank you!
Thats what I call a fish pond. Beautiful. Not a stupid koi in sight...........
Most people have koi due to they survive tuff winters.
@@2Round2Square I know, I know, but a bit tired of koi.
@@knupps i have koi, gold fish, mollies and guppies and red cherry shrimps all live together in the pond
Thank you! :)
Very nice!
Thank you!
Brilliant!
Thank you Jazerlights
Beautiful!
thank you! :) Your videos are very nice too!
Thanks! I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos!
Thanks!
Those fish love life
They do indeed! :)
Wonderful
Thank you! :-)
gorgeous
Thank you!
you might like this other one too :) ua-cam.com/video/FOZZ0lQhsU0/v-deo.html
love this
Thanks Brannon
Beatyfull...you use some sistem against algae?
No, most algae is eaten by the fish. The small amount of algae leftover is removed by hand from time to time. But it's not a big problem at all.
What area u r keeping that pond
Cuz in my at the winter time get cold n fish can't make it
Val Kalyuzhnyy we’re in a subtropical area :)
What’s the fish that kind of look like half angel fish
monodactylus argenteus :)
Oh, I thought is was a mono sabae
What kind of fish is that at 3:15? Kinda looks like an angel
Hi Sonny, monodactylus argenteus :) They didn't do well in the pond unfortunately as they need brackish water to reproduce and eventually they need sea water as well.
Thats a dream pond. What plants do you have in there?
Thanks! Can't recall the plants name except for the easy ones Vallisnerias and Elodeas. Got them all from here, check them out www.liverpoolcreekaquariums.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Are you from Australia because some of these fish look like Australian natives also where these fish wild caught because I’m from Australia and I been looking to catch wild platy in Australia
Hi Oscar. Yes, we're in sunshine coast, qld. Platys are feral fish and not native to australia and unfortunately they are in many waterways. These ones in the pond were bought from an aquarium shop :)
I'm o n the gold coast can catch hundreds of monos in the water ways around my place with a cast net.
Can you give me a list of every specie in there? Thank you
Fish species: Platty, Guppy, Mono, Mountain cloud minnow, red cherry shrimp, molly, swordtail, pacific blue eyes, empire gudgeon, Danio, Rosy barb
Hi I was wondering how many galllons is your pond and what is the fish stocking???
Hello :) 12,000 Litres (Approx 3,000 gallons). This was the pond in winter, so we has platties, swordtails, mollies, guppies and rosie barbs amongst the exotic fish... and also some Australian natives, like rainbowfish, empire gudgeons, blue eyes, monos...
What is that angel fish looking thing called 0:26 , would like to know as I want one : )
They are monodactylus argenteus. 100% agree with Running River comment. They lived here for a long time but didn't t thrive, didn't grow much and didn't reproduce. Ended up being a cruel to keep them in the pond :(
100% agree. We learned this after we got them :(
@@marianoaran can you do an update on your pond?
@@MrGreen-nu8og Hi! I am overseas at the moment so no update for now. I will do an update when I'm back :)
good pound
Thanks!
Is this with filtration machine ?
It has a pump to circulate water. Filtration is done by plants and beneficial bacteria. It’s a natural system that doesn’t use any chemicals.
This video shows how it has been built.
ua-cam.com/video/eW0Mrj-G-do/v-deo.html
@@marianoaran thanks
Monodactylus argus!!!!!!
Yep, didn't do well in the pond unfortunately as they need brackish water to reproduce and eventually they need sea water as well.
Hope this is a brackish pond because otherwise those poor mono angels
Hi Dillon, Monos lived there for a while until they were moved to a brackish tank, yes.
@@marianoaran ooo okay cool I actually have an indoor 620l brackish pond with archers, scats, freshwater lionfish, figure 8 puffers and I'm looking to get some mono angels again but sebae not the ones you have
@@delilahswan4496 Is it difficult to maintain a brackish pond? How do you do that?
@@delilahswan4496 The large silver fish you mentioned are Melanotaenia duboulayi (crimson-spotted rainbowfish). These fish are native to the area where I live in Australia.
This video is from 2017, since then we have learned a lot. We have re-stocked the pond a few times until we settled only on native fish from the area where we live that were collected from nearby water bodies.
We had many fish tanks as well but they are all gone now :)
The pond filtration is done ONLY by plants roots. We never clean it (we only harvest plants from time to time) and the water is crystal clear :)
The wouldorganisms that grow in the pond naturally.
All species that currently live in the pond (as of Feb 2021) seem to be be stable, rainbow fishbeginning
@@marianoaran the brackish pond isn't that difficult to maintain I have a backwash for water changes java fern with little gravel and like I said it's 620l so it's not that big. And it's relatively new so I only currently have 9 fish because I live in South Africa in a small town so getting uncommon fish is really difficult but I'm slowly building up. I've kept brackish since 2019 and freshwater fish for nearly 10 years now. If you don't mind, if you have a social media platform like Instagram or Twitter you don't mind sharing on UA-cam I can DM you with videos of my pond currently if you're interested. And we could just generally exchange knowledge but if not I completely understand aswell. I could also share my Instagram handle if you're more comfortable with that
What's the fish with blue eyes?
Pacific blue-eye (Pseudomugil signifer)
What type of fish is that one in the centre? 2:15
That one is called Empire Gudgeon. In this video we're feeding young ones ua-cam.com/video/TAHnvXO0WuU/v-deo.html
They bring their colouration when they are in breeding mode, or when we feed them as a way of showing dominance I think.
Which type of fish breed in here
Fish species: Platty, Guppy, Mono, Mountain cloud minnow, red cherry shrimp, molly, swordtail, pacific blue eyes, empire gudgeon, Danio, Rosy barb
don't forget the angels
@@tristan6509 The ones that look like Angels are monodactylus argenteus (mono or moonfish) :)
Name of the music?
Sorry... I can't remember where I got this from.
2:19 what spices of fish is that?
These are local native fish - Empire Gudgeon (Hypseleotris compressa). At that stage there was only one male so it didn't fully colour up.
Here's another video with this fish in a tank, but I will upload a better one in a few minutes...
ua-cam.com/video/Cqgo_v5Cox0/v-deo.html
Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/TAHnvXO0WuU/v-deo.html
Tutty fruty pond...
yeah... too many species
True... eventually the pond was left with only the native species :)
need some turtles and snakes in there .
Unfortunately, turtles will eat all the plants :(
They would look very nice in there though ;-)