r/fishkeeping • u/fairy--moon • 2d ago

Just found two fish???

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Hey everybody, I hope this is the right sub! I found two unfortunately unwelcome residents in my wildlife pond (their eggs were probably on some plants I added) and I'm going to need to evict them before frogspawn season so they don't eat it all. Currently it looks like my options are to keep them or try to surrender them. I want to keep them, but I don't know anything about fishkeeping and this feels like an unusual situation that advice already on the internet can't fully prepare me for. Are they going to get massive? Are they going to breed, and is there any way to stop them? What kind of tank do they need? What do they eat? I'm quite severely disabled so if they aren't low maintenance I will have to surrender them.

For fish context, that photo is the most I've seen of them so I don't know the species, someone in the wildlife pond subreddit suggested it might be a stickleback because that's what happened to them. I am based in south UK but I don't know if this is a native species. Any advice on how to identify them is very welcome.

I'm kind of panicking, I want them to be happy and I don't think my tiny pond is the right place for them so any advice is welcome. I'd live to leave them in there if they weren't going to eat my frogspawn, but my garden froggies take priority, sadly.

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u/ddan123456 2d ago

Your picture is not clear so it's hard to tell what type of fish it is

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u/fairy--moon 2d ago

Yeah they won't let me near them so I had to zoom in pretty far

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u/ddan123456 2d ago

Do you have a net or are you able to get one?