Buying a House - Fish in pond?

[superlightr]

We are moving house to one which has a small pond with we are told about 150 goldfish/coi mix (small)

We plan on filling in the pond due to safety worries as we have very young children.

questions, - can the seller 'abandon' the fish and expect us to look after them?
- How and where do we get rid of 150 fish - we dont want to get into trouble with the RSPCA
- find a local big pond and 'dump' them there?
- ask the seller to remove them?

Grateful for your views.

[Gonad]

Depending where you are if you are giving them away there will be no shortage of takers

[paoloh]

Advertise them.

You'll get a meal out on them.

[Jasandjules]

You could ask the seller to remove them, you could take them all to an LFS (local fish shop) and sell them to the shop, and make a bob or two?

[Fer]

paoloh said:

Advertise them.
OR
You'll get a meal out on them.

EFA: All you need is a good cook book.

[Boosted LS1]

I wish I had a pond! Could you make the pond safe and then get to enjoy it? maybe some sort of raised barrier. It can be great fun hand feeding fish.

[mat13]

i give it ten mins till this thread is moved to home and garden

[superlightr]

Boosted LS1 said:

I wish I had a pond! Could you make the pond safe and then get to enjoy it? maybe some sort of raised barrier. It can be great fun hand feeding fish.

it can be, but then again I don want to be pulling out one of our young children dead. It does have a fence around it, but with twin 4 year olds (one of which wants to be a Royal marine and found she had climbed half way up up a tree the other day and they act as a tag team and helping each other to do things one couldnt) and a 1x 1.5 year old - its too much of a risk. Wife and I debated it last night, as we would like to keep it but not worth the worry no matter how secure and well we keep an eye on the children.

Would we get in trouble just free-ing them into a bigger public pond or wc?

Edited by superlightr on Monday 20th July 09:18

Edited by superlightr on Monday 20th July 09:20

[chevronb37]

I'd get them valued and then sell them on that basis. Koi can be extremely valuable so don't let yourself get ripped off. A friend of mine’s parents sold their house which had a koi carp lake on the grounds. Apparently they were stolen by someone posing as a fish whisperer or some other such tenuous trade. There were thousands of pounds worth of koi in there.

[58warren]

Why not consider a strong metal grille/mesh securely fixed over the water? Children could not fall through it and you would still be able to feed the fish/enjoy the pond.

Please don't release them into a river as they are not native species and can cause a big problem once in the wild. They can also harbour diseases such as dropsy.

As has been mentioned already, I'm sure others will take them if you really want to get rid.

Edited by 58warren on Monday 20th July 09:24

[bimsb6]

"Would we get in trouble just free-ing them into a bigger public pond or wc?" yes ! you cannot remove or introduce fish wherever you fancy ,stick an ad in your local shop .

[Carfiend]

Buying a house, fish in pond, old faithful by the fire, suit you sir.

[Jgtv]

Depends where you are I will be happy to take a some off your hands if its not to far, Will be happy to take the others away to.

[V10Mike]

If you're not too far away, we'll take them off your hands! Damn heron got most of ours last year!

[superlightr]

Down in Sussex - I will check what sort of mix there is. Maybe just goldfish.

[Goughie]

Unlicenced releases into the wild are a breach of the W&CA, not to mention potentially spreading notifiable diseases such as SVC and KHV.

As has been mentioned, get a valuation and sell them - they'll be worth a few quid to the right person.

[zollburgers]

Is the pond (and fish) small enough to get in the back of a Skoda Octavia? If so, I'll take it off your hands and then you won't need to fill it in.

[Steve_D]

Recently paid £2 each for 1.5" long gold fish. Was the best price I could find locally so what you have will be worth a bit.
If you're western side of Sussex I would be interested in some of them.

Steve

[anonymous-user]

According to the sun, People look on Google earth and when they see the pond steal the fish..So just wait and I am sure someone will get them..

Koi sell for good prices and the the goldfish give to the cat..

[andy43]

superlightr said:

... with twin 4 year olds (one of which wants to be a Royal marine and found she had climbed half way up up a tree the other day and they act as a tag team and helping each other to do things one couldnt

We have 5 y.o twins...
Fill the pond in!