Pond fish - Shubunkin at Tyne Valley Aquatics ( near Newcastle ) in Prudhoe ( Northumberland )

[Henrybailey1]

myn have 1 orange eye and 1 white eye 2 black eyes and crnt remember the other 1 i will put a video of them

[Roosterboii]

hey mate!

i'm in the process of building a small pond (6.5 meters long, 3 meter wide at the widest point and 2 meters wide on the remaining parts) is that too small for shubunkin? i know it's a micro pond but i really want fish in it :P

[pondguru]

That's easily big enough for most pond fish, no worries. Remember the filtration will have to cope with the volume of the pond.

I bet that took some digging unless you had a machine.

[Roosterboii]

@pondguru haha, did it all by hand my man ;)

and yes, i have taken all of that into account!

Do you think 6-8 shubunkins would be to much?

[pondguru]

You could get loads more than that in. You could at least double it.

[TheRossiboy]

Hi Richard, I was wondering how big do shubunkins get as i was thinking about getting some for the pond in spring. thanks mate.

[pondguru]

In a decent sized pond, a 12" (1 foot) long one would be a big fish. They tend to get better colouration with age.

[TheRossiboy]

@pondguru thanks

[blownable]

Some of them look like they're infested just underneath their skin with some kind of black coloured virus

[pondguru]

Its just their motley colouration. If they were koi, that colouration would come through as black markings. On shubunkin they stay pretty much the same colour all their lives.

[rico1201]

i had one of them but it died :(

[pondguru]

Only the good die young, all the evil seem to live for ever.......

[slicer119]

one of them is taking a shit XD lol

[Venrellin]

put em in a pond

[pondguru]

I agree, they should be in a pond. This video was shot in the Winter, so we had a few fish indoors.

[musemgug]

These shubunkins are great, I just loved them...