We’ve got youngin’s in our “pond”! I thought I saw a little squirt scooting away into the depths a week ago but wasn’t able to confirm it until today when I saw them at the surface soaking up the sun. This is a first! We have not one but TWO baby goldies! Home grown babies! Given their size, these have to be last year’s babies.
One has a gold head and black body, the other is all black. It’ll take a bit to get a decent picture as they’re understandably a bit skittish. They’re a bit over 1″ long and they’ve managed to avoid being food to this point. They’re now big enough to reliably survive.
Wadly brought home the big robust duck weed in the pond. It’s big and tough enough it’s not being devoured by the fish so all is good! It’s a lovely addition. I’m hoping I can manage to winter it over.
I was having trouble finding something to screen the biofilter tank so the hydroton stays in the biofilter and doesn’t plug the screen. You’ll laugh when I tell you what I ended up using . . . and it’s working spectacularly well. I bought a $9 plastic urinal. The neck of the urinal is the perfect size to fit over the outlet of the biofilter. It came with all sorts of extra parts to make it male and female friendly. I chucked all those unnecessary bits and cut fat slots in the body, covered it with plastic netting, the kind that organic ginger root comes in and it has worked flawlessly for months. I’d love it if it were black instead of white but I’ll take what I can get.
I still need to plumb the willow tank inlet with a through hull so the hose doesn’t have to go over the top edge of the tank. Baby steps.
