Environmental Issues
& Going Green

Gardening Tips Site
Unusual & Old Fashioned Fruit Trees.
Vines & Other Climbing Plants

Fish Ponds

Click Here For Information

Pages.

Introduction
About The Author
Authors Notes
Your First Pond
Trees & Sunshine
Take The Plunge
Preformed Pools
Installing A Liner
Making A Raised Pool
A Koi Pond
Miniature Ponds
Adding A Waterfall
Electricity
Colourful Ponds
Dangers
Choosing A Pump
Solar Powered Pumps
Looking After A Pump
Pond Pipework
Installing A Fountain
Self-Contained Fountains
The Leaky Pond
Planting The Pond
A Wildlife Pond
A Bog Garden
Pond Plants
Plants Round A Pond
Choosing A Lily
Floating Plants
Water Hyacinth
Oxygenating Plants
About Fish
When To Buy Fish
Choosing Fish
Quarantining Fish
Fish Under Stress
Feeding Your Fish
Holidays & Fish
Breeding Coldwater Fish
Changing Colours Of Fish
Pond Fish
A Koi Collection
Ghost Koi
Fancy Goldfish
Coldwater Catfish
Sturgeon
Grass Carp
Rearing Trout
Swan Mussels
Visitors To The Pond
Frogs
Newts
Visiting A Koi Auction
Clubs & Societies
Caring For Fish
Testing The Water
Oxygenation
Are You Poisoning Your Fish
Ponds & Medicines
Diseases & Parasites
Disappearing Fish
Problems With Herons
Filtration
Green Ponds
Fish Pond Filters
How A Filter Works
Improving Your Filter
Ultra Violet Sterilizers
Looking After A Filter
The Pond Through The Year
Spring Cleaning
Pond Plants In Spring
Ponds In Summer
Autumn & Winter
Breaking The Ice
10 Problems
Useful Facts & Figures

Allotment Articles1.
Allotment Articles 2.

Grass Carp

These fish are a member of the carp family but are unusual in as much as they are solely vegetarians. As a carp they grow quite quickly and large, eventually reaching several feet in length under good conditions. They need plenty of space like Koi carp because they get very frustrated in cramped conditions and will jump vigorously.

In America grass carp are widely grown as a food fish in the same way we grow trout. The Farmers who rear them actually cut the grass of the fields and scatter the grass cuttings on the water to feed them although they will take commercial fish food as well. Grass Carp are prodigious feeders and have been used in the Everglades experimentally to clear the vegetation that threatens to block the waterways. In many states of America however they are considered a pest stripping rivers of all their vegetation so they have been banned.

Some Grass Carp are imported into this country for sale in the aquatic trade but they are not to be recommended in a well-planted pond for they will strip it bare as they get bigger. Grass Carp are rather plain being the colour of an ordinary carp, but an albino form is sometimes available which is yellow in colour. This will show up in the pool very well, but large specimens are horrendously expensive to buy and even small ones cost many pounds each.

















 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adverts