fish and scavengers for your water garden
Adding fish and scavengers to your water garden help balance out it's ecosystem!
Gone fishin'
Fish add movement, life, and beauty to your water garden. These colorful creatures are more than just ornaments—they also round out your aquatic eco-system and will happily feast on any mosquito larvae that hatch in your pond.
Probably the most highly prized pond fish is the Japanese koi. These exquisite animals have been bred for hundreds of years and come in an array of sparkling colors. Butterfly koi have long flowing fins and come in yellow, silver, gold and orange with black.
Another interesting fish is the golden orfe. These fast moving fish are voracious insect hunters, forming small schools that will patrol your pond. And finally, no water garden is complete without at least a few goldfish.
The clean-up crew
Pond scavengers, such as snails, mussels, and tadpoles, are eager clean-up crew members and help to keep a water garden healthy and free of algae. Live-bearing trapdoor snails eat algae from the side walls and bottom of a pond. Freshwater clams filter algae from water, and tadpoles eat decaying vegetation and algae (and later turn into insect-devouring frogs, Rana catesbiana).
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