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Thanks for the Video, I would've covered Cycling your pond and using a heater during the Winter. I raise Ricefish and and use the hand towel with a clip for rain over flow which works like a charm. Keep up the great Videos!

Yes on your rainy day, I stuck to the end of this content. I will soon start purchasing my items and will enjoy it soon. Thank you for all this educational video, I love it.

i actually clicked on the video because you are wearing a tank top on the thumbnail 🤔

I never wanted a pond or really even considered setting one up until this video. Great content, keep up the great work. Thank you!

A good method for keeping predators out of ponds is a motion activated sprinkler. Obviously not everybody can do this and it may be able to be tweaked for smaller areas but I know that it is very effective with keeping a lot of predatory birds and raccoons out of ponds.

Ive had alot of ponds with wild caught sticklebacks, they are super hardy, but now ive set them free as i was able to get my hands on some rice fish, cheers from the faroe islands 🇫🇴

0:04 50% pond 50% the tank top

Golden white clouds can handle pretty cold weather I left them 8 in a 10 gallon once & I woke up once and there was 2 inches of water ontop & they were still alive swimming (definitely slowed down a lot) But they lived!

Just wanted to say fancy rice fish varieties don't like the cold. It also depends on a lot of factors but especially where you imported them from. A lot of sellers live in warm climates and their fish need to adapt over a generation or more to cold water. There are varieties bred for outdoors like miyukis, and ones that definitely won't survive outside, like longfin varieties, so just be careful which ones you go for, the basic ones are your best bet at first. I had some blue miyuki's raised from eggs from SoCal, they didn't adapt to winter temps along the upper pacific coast even though it's mild by most standards, and by the time I'd figured it out it was too late.

I love this video! I have a passion for fish, ponds and water features. There's always another pond project in my vision! I maintain a koi pond, a goldfish pond, a clawfoot bathtub pond with a cascading tea pot fountain, a 5 x 7 bamboo spout nursery pond for baby waterlilies and several other water features. I have solar powered pumps in the clawfoot and 5 x 7 hardshell, electric pumps in the koi and goldfish, so the water flows and it never freezes totally solid. I keep mosquito fish in my goldfish, clawfoot and bamboo pond. They are so hardy! Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada winters can be surprisingly extreme. Last year we had a 2 week period of -20! They all survived! I have a lot of folks looking for my water lilies as they want to create a patio pond. I will send them your link as you have covered a lot of great information regarding setting up and maintaining a patio pond with fish and plants. Thank you. ♥

Great video and it’s helping me a lot every year. I learned something new from you. Thank you.

Dragonfly larvae are a great way to deal with pre-adult stage mosquitoes; pond or swamp water is a great place to find them if not online. Also, you said this was not a rice fish vid, but the sauce on where to buy them made this one of the most valuable not-rice-fish-videos yet! 🤙

The best and most obvious place to buy outdoor pond plants is a Koi fish store. Many sell and build larger ponds and sell premade smaller ponds. AND loads of pond plants. Big sales for Mother’s Day. Goldfish and guppies are good choices. Never heard of rice fish.

I put netting over my 80-gallon in-ground pond to keep leaves out, and it ended up keeping the raccoons out as well. My fish were disappearing, and I didn't know why. Turns out it was the raccoons.

The thirst trap thumbnails get me every time 😅

These are great! Last season I didn't have a massive yield on my rice fish, I think I just planted too heavily, I think they prefer plants to the lovely mops I provide them! I have a medium sized pond with some koi and goldies. This year I'm thinking I might set up a planter over the bigger pond with a drain back in fed by a solar pump to keep the water fresh. The mums and dads can go in there and, hopefully, mops full of eggs can go in the patio ponds

So glad I found you. It took many tries on making a pond for outside. Well I buy a large pot with no drainage holes, and I always put it in the shade ( I live in the high desert) I put plants around it. Where do I find mosquito fish? I bought a solar panel from Amazon.

I've got a little fountain pond on my front porch that has been great.....I made it by using garden pavers to form an outer wall and just lining it with a pond liner on the inside. I have a HOB filter running on the back of it, along with a typeical center pond fountain for filteration/circulation. It's been super sturdy, and the goldies have been in it for 5 years now.

I'll be setting up a 17-gallon pond for my porch, and I'll be stocking it with cherry shrimp! I'll definitely have to take it down come winter as I'm in Southern Ontario, Canada

Thanks for the video, good informations and gave me some new ideas for my setting of my little pondtank .

Great video first time watching your videos and I have now subscribed. I have a mini pond in a whiskey barrel so it’s about 23 gallons. I have three comet goldfish which I will upgrade to 100 gallon when needed I live in Arizona. I have this barrel in mostly shade. It gets a little filtered sun I’ve had it going now for four weeks. I have a lot of plants and a bubbler. Everyone seems happy so far. Hopefully it continues that way, but I’m totally enjoying it.

If you’re say in the Midwest where the water even in the shade is going to hit 90 degrees and drop only slightly at night I would look at limiting plant grow. Floating plants, other plants with roots in the water will suck the oxygen out of water during the night, even with an air stone present. Warm water not holding as much oxygen can quickly become a problem in an overgrown container pond.

🙏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Great information like always man. Good tips from some actual trial and error is very valuable and definitely needed. My little ones are looking good and plump. Cant wait for you to see them out in the sun shining their best. You'll be blown away. Im doing a complete rebuild over here so i can focus even harder on tweaking the strains. Gonna be a fun year for sure. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Have you ever thought about putting a clear window on the side of one of those pots? Thanks for the info!

I have 3 feeder goldfish in a 20 gallon dug in pond with 4 oxygen plants under water and duckweed and water lettuce floating on top , a solar fountain keeps the water moving . I am in The Netherlands , so not too cold and no predators .

I put rosey red minnows in my 40 gallon pond (in ground). Heat and cold tolerant and very cheap price. I do have a heater on the pond so I doesn't go under 65 degrees. Mosquitoes are a big reason to have the fish. Surface turbulence using a bubbler or fountain can discourge mosquitoes too.

I love miniponds. Ill put my golden white clouds and cpd's in there soon. 4 years ago i had Ricefish. unfortunately didnt know how i have to handle them in winter. They didnt survive in aquarium 😢. But next time ill be smarter and put them in the cellar.

Plant nerd here- you are likely zone 7 ish. At least between zones 6b to 8, if you're closer to the coast then closer to zone 8. That means with protection, you can grow damn near anything. Much like here in GA. Etsy also has alot of people selling plants that I've had good luck with and i like Pond Megastore as well.

love your videos... informative, interesting and funny! I live in central NY, thinking about a pond for next summer, I will be retired then!!!!!! yay! and have time to play with it and enjoy it. we definitely have to figure out a raccoon deterrent, I live in the country, lots of those little bandits but they are soooo freaking cute! they visit our big pond , they eat the little bugs and tadpoles and goodies on the edges of it, people think they are washing their food off, but they are just searching for tiny bugs and anything they can eat...

Will the small pond/aquarium heaters with thermostats help with freezing?

Great video

Caught the semi-question about zones - I scrolled and didn't see this explained but I apologize if someone already got it! Literally all the USDA zone tells you is the annual average lowest minimum temperature over a long period of time. The current map is based on data from 1991-2020, so 30 years. It doesn't tell you anything about summer weather, precipitation, day length, or anything like that. Just the average lowest temperature your area has seen in the past 30 years. It's really only about overwintering plants. Plus, like you talked about, different areas of your yard or garden have different microclimates anyway! Right next to the south-facing side of your house is probably going to stay warmer than in the shade on the north side. Anyway, just thought I'd throw in that questionably useful information.

the only predators I have noticed are the dragonfly and damselfly larva, but they never seem to do much damage to the fry and I also am ok with them taking a few. I never had an issue with mosquitoes. I am pretty sure the fish in the ponds love eating them.

I bought these anti rodent spikes from Amazon and glued them to some bricks. I placed them strategically around my pond and it seems to have done the trick (so far).

Luckily no Racoons in sweden where I live. But I overheard a guy in the fishstore the other day when I was buying some fishfood... A Heron emptied his goldfish pond.

Excellent. I want to try Ricefish outside in the UK. I was assuming I'd have to take them in in the winter...

What about shrimp? Do you recommend putting shrimp and fish together in these outdoor patio ponds I wana add some cherry shrimp with my rice fish

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Were do you get your large Pots from?

Ricefish will become the guppies of the hobby if more people breed them and create new colors

15:30 unfortunately the ricefish coming out of Japan now are tropical. They’re keeping them at 80 degrees and the process to gettin them to overwinter here in San Francisco is extensive to say the least. Check out medaka metal, he’s the guy getting stuff in.

it took me all of like three minutes to get an idea for a tiered style pond and now I kinda wanna do it hmmmmm

Lol. As a Minnesotan, MN deserves to be picked on. 😂

What about running a heater or like trough heater for the pond fish for the snow belt?

What soil shoud l use to put in the container pots?

Got a 100 gallon preformed planted for a couple years.solar water fall crystal clear but never put fish in cause the bull frogs showed up. How do you deal with them?

Siberian Patio Pond is definitely something I need to see now 😂

What’s a good way to do this In a state like Montana and what kinda fish

Dwarf Umbrella palm works very good

Mosquito fish, the guppies ugly cousins cracked me up. The info on where to get the rice fish here in the U.S. was worth it's weight in gold. 👍❤️👍

I’m hoping to get my first pond out this year. No shade, so no fish this year.

Did you get rice fish eggs from online too? If so, how did those turn out?

Did you mention neo shrimp for ponds ? They could work

I live in Jamaica, with many patio ponds, some in full sun. I actually find the ones in full sun are healthier...but maybe that's cause I have tropical plants *shrug*

Too little light is a “thing”, for sure, but in a different way than too much light…as in, obviously most plants can’t grow in total darkness. Even the most shade-loving species will do better in bright shade, or bright indirect/filtered light, and some can even handle a range of conditions, including partial to full sun. In my personal opinion, the ideal location for outdoor pond features is underneath a screen, mesh, or something like we see overhead at nurseries outdoors. Greenhouses are good too, though could be more than enough light for algae. I’ve had algae in fully shaded, fully planted setups, simply because the diatoms or whatever were there in the water. Organic detritus fed it naturally… I live in San Diego so obviously my choice of plants might be different than other places. But I put an inch of potting soil under some gravel in my setup. I was able to grow a large Amazon sword, a carpeting of _Eleocharis_ (dwarf hair-grass), a forest of vigorous _Crinum thaianum_ (onion plant, started from a single PetSmart tube) and _Lilaeopsis_ (microsword)… and surprisingly, _Alternathera reineckii_ was one of my top-performing “all star” plants!

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How sustainable is this if I live in SoCal and lazy?

Never thought I'd hear the sentence: "Creeping Jenny is tight.".

Where’d you get those floating fish decorations in your pond? 6:07

I have a couple quick questions. I have an old galvanized tub, about 45 to 50 gallons. Will that affect plants, or fish? Speaking of fish, what do you think about like feeder goldfish? Thank you for all the informative videos.

What is up with the orange dead floating fishing lure thing?

Next video: workout routine ? 😂

Will you be building a bigger pond eventually and get some koi

Is the dwarf sag plant okay in cold/frozen seasons?

9:55 how do you put a pot of soil in water and not have water clogged the soil then get root rot?

I'd love to set up a patio pond with guppies, but I live near Phoenix, and I'm not sure how hot the water would get in our 115°F summers

Have you ever used barley pellets instead of the barley bales?

What are those pool noodle things floating in the water?

Ok what about a terra cotta pot. What do I need to do to keep it from absorbing water?

Please make more rice fish videos 😂

When is the Legit nano going to be in stock again? 😅 Getting a little bit tired of inconsistency with crumbling the normal community pellets

Why not throw a heater in the pond to get through the 30 degree swings? Maybe set it to like 60 or something?

I've got an empty half barrel. Guess I'll be filling it with plants and rice fish some time soon 😂

What if *hypothetically* I use sea monkeys? 🤔

do the fish need to be fed?

Why are there no rosy red minnows on here?

I had crows mess with my container pond. They took a dislike to the irises and kept yanking them out. I don't think they ate any fish, but they thought the water and plants were great fun...

Unrelated to the actual content of the video, but I wanted to stop in and say how much I like that you're going against the "jock" stereotype. You're always so smart and thorough with your content, I love it even though I don't currently have any kind of aquarium/like setup. Keep it up man! (and p.s. you're super-hot but that's beside the point lol)

Guppys work great in patio ponds. Dragonflies are the worst!

What’s up with your fish!

You are too handsome. I see game show host in the future.

this video is click bait we need more Mike showing off them guns 😏

Add 5 gallons of cold water every 3 hours....lol

I absolutely hate your pond and feel bad for the poor fish inside of it.

They aren’t from Ohio 😂😂😂so clutch my guy

If there are too hot, why u not shirtless

Great video as always! With 2 covered small terraces 20 floors up, we’ve got a perfect spot with No raccoons! We’re on it. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🫶👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🙏🙏

We do get a lot of 🦝, but the dog scares em off pretty quick. 🐕