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As per the title, need rid of the pond in our garden. The arrangement was that the previous owners were going to take the fish after they dug a pond at their new place but now they have changed their mind and we are stuck with them. The pond has to go as there is a little one on the way and we want to do the garden up before it arrives. Proper dodgy pond for a bairn as well as it's cut into the decking, not raised up or anything. Mind you, it's not just dodgy for wee ones, we've had a full grown man go in.
So, where's best to advertise getting shot of them? Gumtree (they'll be "free to a good home" as long as "buyer" fishes them out and takes them away)? Dunno what kind of fish they are, bit of a mix but certainly no koi in there. Any advice as ever appreciated cos stuffed if we know what to do with them.
How big are the fish?
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You've got a flushing loo, haven't you.........
Binbins, not that big I'm afraid...
Zanelad, you're a bad lad! 😆
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Your local pike fishermen will take them as livebait.
Ring your local fish retailer or garden/pond centre, they'll maybe take them as they'll be able to sell them.
Find a local water garden/pond centre they will be able to put you in touch with someone who will take them.
Get down the local lake and tip 'em in.
We had a similar problem when we moved in to our house - there was a pond full of fish - a real mixture of things, bog standard goldfish, tench, carp, koi etc....
bigjim - MemberRing your local fish retailer or garden/pond centre, they'll maybe take them as they'll be able to sell them.
We thought this as people kept telling us that the Koi were worth a lot of money & people would be falling over themselves to take them off our hands.
But, the reality was that most places we called wouldn't even entertain the idea of taking fish from a random pond because of the risk of infection/parasites/disease to their existing stock.
We ended up getting rid of a load of them via a colleague of my Wife's.
The remainder were all the small fish. I found a pond/aquarium forum, registered & stuck a post on. Within about 15 mins some bloke got in touch saying he wanted some adult fish for an established pond, came that weekend and took them all away.
I have had a quick look, but can't find the name of the forum that I used.
my house came with some tropical fish. I killed them with vodka, then put them in the bin. the internet told me that this was the most humane way.
Gave ours to the school for its pond.
Ours went into a lake on a golf course.
(the greenkeeper took them we didn't just do a midnight dump!)
Why not just what them on gumtree or freecycle?
Get down the local lake and tip 'em in.
DO NOT DO THIS! Funkin' ecological terrorists, I ask you 🙄
As above - Freecycle, Gumtree or a local Freebies Facebook page.
Posted on the Practical Fishkeeping forum so fingers crossed! Thanks for your responses chaps, although I'm have to say that I'm a little disappointed that nobody saw fit to post the clip of Neil from The Inbetweeners punching the fish to death (I'm specifically looking at you, Binners).
If you're near Glasgow and they wouldn't mind sharing with 50 horny frogs, they could go in our pond.
The heron might get them occasionally, though.
If you're in the Northwest, depending on how many and size, I may take them ... we're needing to restock after a visit from The Ba$tard Heron...
Thank you both, Ben and Trailhound but we're in Nottingham. The previous owners warned us about the "Herring" that would come and help itself to the fish but since we've been in the place it's not had a single one! Typical!
Is it a flying fish, this 'Herring'?
Very good 😆
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As an alternative you could get a pond Center to supply a custom cover I can walk on this as does crankbrat he also uses it as a trampoline.
Did something similar to that a pond at a previous property Crankboy but this one has to go I'm afraid. Where it is in the garden, what we need to do in the garden, keeping it's not gonna work. Shame, as whilst I wouldn't go to the effort of installing a pond I was more than happy in the aforementioned previous property to keep it and maintain it. This one isn't gonna work though.