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Looking for pros and cons. If you do have one what size did you get?
Can I put my fish that are in my 75 gallon in the summer and move them back in during the winter? (Novmember to about March) Since it is hot here more then half the year they would be out there most the year.
Thank you

So I well be the first? Hmmm wel ok. thank you.

Angie,
I am not a pond expert, but that pond is beautiful! Why don't you PM Sheri (Garden Girl) as she has a lot of experience with ponds.

thats really cool! I'll show that to my parents cause Im still trying to convince them to let me have an above ground pond in the summer with just like 2 or 3 fish that could be moved inside in the winter

Really starting to rethink this idea. I hate summer and hate bring outside in the summer. I do spend time outside in the spring and fall. So thinking of going smaller.
Maybe this http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=prod...&lpage=none instead. I can put Bently and Sunrise in it and it can be placed right outside the front door so it would be very easy to tend to in the summer time. Or I could put it inside my screened in tent thing I call it my gazebo. That is where I spend my time when I am outside and it is well shaded.
Hmmm Got to think this one threw some more I guess.

I really like that one! I may get something like that myself one day!!! It would be easy to move (if ya needed to), tend to, just add some water plants!!!

Thats what I was thinking. Could even move it inside if I had too.

It is also very reasonably priced, too! I wonder if you have to buy anything to go with it? Like I said, I am not a pond expert.

For just a little more you could get a 100 gallon horse trough -- it's deeper, bigger, and better built. The raised pond in the first post is alright, but not deep enough, IMO. Also, it's raised and would freeze a lot easier in the winter. The horse trough could be moved indoors in the winter.

The raised pond in the first pics is similar to something I'm trying to put together for breeding fish this summer in my garden.... Only I want to go with 300 gallons -- deeper, larger.

A horse trough is a great idea but I can't bring that inside I don't have the room for that size in the house. Are there other ways to keep it warm. It very seldome freezes here in Mississippi. Last time was 9 years ago. At the most my dogs get a thin layer of ice on their water bucket. My husband says since the pond water well be moving it wont freeze. And we could put bails of hay around it as well as a tarp.
If I got the small one I could even heat it and/or bring it inside for a few weeks that it gets cold here. I'd put my two fantails in it with some plants.
I'm just worried if I got something big and didn't like taking care of it........

Hidr, if it would be me, I would go with the one in the first link. It is bigger as the second one, plus a 35 gl would heat up in the summer really fast, shaded spot or not. It just is a bit small for the hotter summer, as well as the cooler winter. I know MS is not getting too many cold days, but a smaller water volume will still be more prone to temperature swings, which causes stress in the fish. A bigger volume guarantees a more stable water temperature, plus less maintenance, since you would need to do more water changes in the smaller one.

I have my fish ponds outside year long, and living in so GA, it doesn't get cold here all that much either. A thin layer of ice once a year, that was all last time. I just shut off the filtration when it gets close to 45 degrees, and bought a couple of sheets of styrofoam to toss over the ponds.

The appearance of the first one is so much better - and even if you don't spend too much time outside, the fountain is such a soothing thing to have. It looks much better, and more professionally done. I always remember the looks of guests when they see my rubbermaid containers, and then the admiring look when it comes to the above ground ponds with the timber around it.