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Introduction
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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

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Rearing Trout

Rainbow trout are extensively reared in this country as a food fish on relatively small fish farms There is no reason why under the right conditions the ordinary person with a large garden couldn’t rear some trout for his own dinner table. There is a golden variety that is now sometimes seen at aquatic retailers, but these may cost £2 or more as fingerlings. If you intend to buy them to grow on for eating then you want to buy them as cheaply as possible.

A visit to a friendly trout farm owner may result in the purchase of a few small fish for a pound, or two although this is technically illegal. For trout to survive the water must very clean, well oxygenated and cool in the summer. For this reason stocking levels must be kept to an absolute minimum and the pool must be as deep as possible. Most reservoirs are stocked with trout successfully and are ideal for them but trout have been reared up to eating size in back garden pools.

It is not advisable to mix trout with other fish as when they get bigger they can become cannibalistic. Ordinary fish pellets can be used to feed them, but this would make the adult fish a bit expensive to eat so when you visit the trout farm buy some proper trout pellets as well. These are more oily than goldfish pellets and make them put on more body weight which is what you want.

If you have never seen a number of trout feed it is quite something to behold. The water seems to boil as the trout greedily come up to the surface to eat a mouthful of pellets. They grow quickly and should reach about 3/4 of a pound or more in one season. After two years they should be a good eating size.

Mature female trout get egg bound so their life span is limited to a few years, but males can live longer and get quite large. If you are going to grow Trout to be eaten you MUST NOT ever use any chemicals in your pond as they may cause the flesh of the fish to be harmful to humans when eaten. However, if you do grow some to eat it can be very satisfying to know that you have raised the delicious trout that has made a good meal for all the family.


















 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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