As well as the Residents, don't forget the other wildlife - Visitors to the pond (Non-Residents) (or navigate up one level)

Fish

Ghost Koi	Female, April 1998	Huge mouth, lovely markings. The greediest & tamest.
	25th Sep 99	The yellow markings are fading - is this usual?


Goldfish	Male April 1998	Responsible for most of the fry in the pond. Not at all fussy about his mates. Cost us 55p.
Goldfish	Female 1999	A pond-fill refugee!
Sarasa Comet	Male, April 1998	Quite shy
Blue Orfe	Male?, April 1998	Has a black spot on top. Always the first to freak out.
	Male?, April 1998	The orfes like to dash around from one end of the pond to the other with complete disregard for the other poor fish having to swim out of their way. Prefer the "hit & run" method of feeding.
	Male?, April 1998
Ghost Carp	1 _{5 April 1999}	Similar to the koi but much noisier when eating. They are quite tame and always very hungry.
	2 _{5 April 1999}
	3 _{5 April 1999}
Hatched in the pond in 1998.	?, July 1998	The 1st surviving fry. Slight orange underbelly. Swims freely with the others. Has trouble getting to food when the bigger fish accidentally knock it for six.
	No 2 & 3 ?, August 1998	Keeps out of way.
	The above fish when they were just eggs!
Hatched in the pond in 1999	Dozens of goldfish	These swim near the surface under the cover of weed.
Misc Koi	July 2000

Snails

	Snails' eggs as found under a lily leaf.

Water Boatman

I've watched this Water Boatman stalk stranded flies on the surface of the water. It drags them under the water to break the surface tension so that its prey will never escape.

Daphnia

I have introduced live daphnia bought from the local pet shop and from the neighbour's well-established pond. By placing some daphnia near thick weeds it has managed to breed.

Mayfly Larvae

According to the PondDipping site, the three "feathers" sticking out from the back are gills used for taking in oxygen.

Dixinuae fly larvae

This creature was seen in early September and was about 7 millimeters long. It's a larvae of a type of mosquito.

Pond Skaters

Pondskaters. The front legs are used to grab other insects falling on to the water surface,

John Crofts of Sherwood, Nottingham: "You can play a dastardly trick on them, and water boatmen, by tickling the pond surface with a thin stick so that you create a series of small ripples (ie simulating a drowning fly). The skaters and boatmen home in from all directions in the mistaken belief that dinner awaits them. At the last moment, you withdraw the stick and make ripples elsewhere......... until you get bored, or the skaters get wise to what is going on."

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