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can I keep a pair of gold fish in small deck pond!?

We baught a little deck pond, it is round and it is 100cm wide, 30cm deep, and has pebbles and decorative glass at the bottom ( not sharp edged) and I intend to put a small water lily plant or maybe 2 on top to add colour to the garden. My mom has come up with the idea of putting a pair of gold fish into it and maybe a pair of the smallest cleaner fish suitable for out door ponds. My main question is, is my pond deep enough to keep tiny gold fish and what is the smalles type of cleaner fish that can be put in an outdoor deck pond. also will the UK weather ( I live in the Berkshire county, just outside London on the south east side I think) where we do occationally get thin snow falls, be affecting the gold fish as well as the cleaner fish?

There are no “cleaner fish” suitable for outdoor use anyway. Goldfish ARE algae eaters and any suckermouth fish may well turn on the Goldfish and suck on their slime coat which would leave the Goldfish open to bacterial infections and parasites. All Plecos are tropical fish and need large heated tanks.

But this isn’t an issue as your little pond is too small for Goldfish. And at only 30cm deep, come winter any Goldfish will keel over. For fish to overwinter it needs to be at least 90cm deep or more. A common/comet Goldfish will get 30cm long. A fancy Goldfish more like 20cm (but too fragile for an outdoor pond).

I would leave your little pond fish-free. Ponds for fish need to be very large, deep, and preferably filtered.

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