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Eyes and tails starting to form on day 3.

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The red ghostie in the foreground used to have an orange head and completely silver body, so we called him Mask Jr after another similar fish we had before him called Mask. Over the years his body has gone blood-red.

Basically as the title asks; I'm looking to hear how much people invest in fresh water for their ponds and what sorts of costs associated they're happy with.

I have a 18,000lt indoor pond. It has a very robust filtration system but no plants, no bog filter, and no anoxic filtration. I've generally kept water changes down to only topping up as needed, and topping up after cleaning the filters out etc. I'd average somewhere between 1-5% changes a week doing this.

I've never noticed issues and my old (aging) test kit showed everything as fine, but after recently installing my underwater camera (live feed!) and watching them daily, I've noticed that they are flashing through

Named Guinea, as he and 'Pig' were the two fish added to my new pond when it was built. He's a generic ghost koi / mutt, but has a pretty unique pattern and colour; almost rusty-metal / oil spill type pattern to him. I say he... it's possible he's a she. Never seen another that looks like this really.