Shade or sun in ny
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The larger and the deeper the more water you have the less the amount of issues surface when in full sun. Minimal feeding and fish . but i take it your stock tank pond is better known as a preform plastic pond
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With a small pond you might want to put a shade sale over it.
With a small pond you might want to put a shade sale over it.
it is a galvanized tank that i had gotten from a farmer. its 28 inches deep. 2 foot by 4 foot. Could i keep 2 gold fish in it seasonally?
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We've had conversations here about galvanized stock tanks and I think the major consensus is that they could be harmful to the fish. Not everyone agrees tho. http://blog.zipgrow.com/worried-that-a-galvanized-tank-might-kill-your-fish
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Hello! For a stock tank, you might want to consider shade with just a little bit of sun. it will heat up quickly. For a galvanized stock tank....yes, opinions vary, but it never hurts to play it safe by adding a liner.
Galvanized is pretty toxic (it's the zinc coating that is the problem), but you could line it with a fish-safe liner without much trouble. Despite what sources say about it being safe for plants (but not fish), we have some old galvanized sheet metal that the prior land owner used to hold back soil when forming the landscape and we can't plant anything within 2 feet of it or it just dies. Nasty stuff.