Life in Garden Ponds
How To
Appendix of Garden Pond Fish
The best advice I can give anyone, is to stock the pond with Community Fish. That means fish that are happy to live together in an enclosed environment without attacking each other. Listed below are the fish I personally recommend for Garden Ponds. If you want to have a lot of plants in your garden pond, forget about having Carp (Koi) as they are notorious in destroying most pond plants. The annoying thing is that they don't seem to actually eat the plants, just tear them to shreds and let the pond filtration system remove them.
For more details of fish suitable for garden ponds in the U.K., I suggest you obtain one of the specialist books listed in our Further Reading section.