can you give me 4-5 kinds of fish that would live peacefully in a pond?

Question

im from the philippines.
plans to have a pond.
i need fishes that would not kill others and others' young.
i need fishes that would go well with the other fish and my 2 turtles.

i have turtles that are not as big as my palm and would fit in a mug.

Answer 1

Provided your pond temperature never drops below 65 degrees fahrenheit:

I'd go with some larger corydoras or emerald catfish (just pick one species and get a big school), some loaches like kuhli loaches or dojo loaches, some silver lyretail mollies, and some female bettas. The loaches and cories will be bottom feeders, the mollies will eat algae and swim in the middle, and the bettas will swim at the surface, rest on the plants, and eat any mosquito larvae or other bug larvae that could become a problem in your pond. All of these types of fish will take well to the pond environment and should thrive. Avoid really dark colored fish like black fish, as they are hard to see in a pond. Watch the turtles with the bettas to make sure they don't bother them, and don't mix any goldfish or koi with the tropical fish I listed above. The mollies and cories should breed like crazy in a pond environment. The female bettas obviously won't without males, but if you added a male, you run the risk of having all of your bettas begin fighting and hurting/killing each other. I really don't know if the dojos or kuhli's would breed or not, but they are really fun in a pond and will come up and let you hand feed them and may even swim into your hand. Plus, they will keep your pond snail population under control. Pearl gouramis might also be a nice option to look into, although they can be more fragile than other species of gouramis, but they are peaceful and beautiful and would adapt easily to a pond environment.
Avoid koi unless you have a pond with 1000 gallons or more. Avoid fragile fish like neon tetras, and avoid fish that won't take well to a pond environment like cichlids.

Answer 2

The basic rules of water gardening in america is to keep koi with koi or other goldfish. However, Because you are in the phillipines, the weather will allow you to keep tropical fish such as neon tetras, mollies and guppies in the pond laso. When i went to Taiwan to visit my cousins they had a pond with koi, but they also had native carp,goldfish, neon tetras, guppies, and mollies. They all lived peacefully because non of them really have a predatory nature.

If you plan to keep a pond with big fish. Besides the koi you can also add native sunfish, and cichilids. But be warned- sunfish and cichiliids are predatory and they will eat smaller fish.

exp- fish hobbyist (i plan to start a pond soon too!)

good luck

Answer 3

How enormous are you considering for the fish? That's a main aspect on this. Jack Dempseys are amusing fish, however they want plenty of room to swim. You can not have matters which might be as small as goldfish, because the turtles will devour them. Plecos reside good with the whole lot, they usually devour the algae at the aspects of the tank--continually a well factor to have. Definitely now not Bettas...their "exchange title" is Japanese Fighting Fish... I wish that helped slightly.

Answer 4

Your options are pretty limited, in that case, to types of goldfish. Luckily, goldfish come in all sorts of colours:

http://www.birds-n-garden.com/backyard/650_koi.jpg
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1737000/2/istockphoto_1737000_koi_goldfish.jpg
http://www.thegardener.btinternet.co.uk/goldfish7.jpg

You can't have any tropical fish, because the water would need to be too warm, and most tropicals are small enough for a turtle to eat. I think you will be limited to large goldfish and koi