Pondguru - Nation of Fish in my Pond

Pondguru
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Nov 11, 2026
Early July and the sun is up, weather is warm and the fish come up to the upper levels of the pond.
Recently they have been spawning so there will no doubt be thousands more by the end of the year.
Here we are overlooking my pond
with a bit of new decking that I put in.
I'm going to show you what's going on in the way of fish
because it's the first sunny day we've had
in about 10 million years up in the northeast of England.
And there's loads of fish on the top,
half of which I've never even seen before, they've just appeared.
So I'm gonna zoom in and talk you through what they are.
First of all we've got some terrapins.
I think there's probably about six or seven
terrapins in the pond. People keep bringing them
and letting them go in the pond.
And they've outgrown their tanks
and seem to survive the winter pretty well.
We've got a shoal of Rudd there, fairly difficult to see.
You see their mouths nipping flies off the top.
Behind them we've got a canny old shoal
of Golden Orfe, all different sizes.
Beyond them, which is pretty much impossible to see,
you maybe just see the top of the water shimmering,
there's a huge shoal of young Rudd.
Probably is about, I don't know, 100, 150 in the shoal.
In the very middle of the pond we've got
a shoal of Grass Carp.
I can see them easily but the camera
doesn't seem to pick them up very well.
Actually that's not too bad,
you can see all the Orfe in the middle there.
See the Rudd down there.
There's also a load of Koi and all sorts of coarse fish in there
which usually don't come up
until it's feeding time.
There's a Terrapin just pulled itself out.
To sun itself.
That's probably the biggest one we've got.
Be approximately 10-12 inches long.
It's just freaked out and gone in water there.
We're going to see its buddies here.
More Rudd. There's Silver Rudd and Golden Rudd.
The Golden Rudd are beautiful.
There's, I don't know, probably 50, 60 of them maybe in the pond.
Maybe there's more. There might be hundreds.
I really don't know what's in here.
That's also another basking place for the Terrapins
that can haul themselves out onto there.
It's like a huge doormat thing that I put in the pond.
A big
orange
thing
is
one
of
the
Koi.
And I think there's a big Ghostie behind it.
The Ghostie's about two foot long.
As I say, they don't often come up unless there's food on the go.
There's quite a big shoal
of Grass Carp.
They're not very big, but they will grow.
The camera doesn't really pick it up, but there's 2,
4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17 fish in that shoal.
