Do you have to cool your pond in the summer for the Sturgeon? Awesome fish those!
My Strugeon thinks it's a koi
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No, it's a koi pond really that has a couple of sturgeon in it. They are fine with a cold winter and a good summer. Pond temp last winter was -1(worst winter in memory) and the surgeon was fine, this summer the max has been 20 and again no probelms.boldtogether;4444230; said:
Thanks, I have two sturgeon in the pond both diamonds. The other one is a normal sturgeon that eats sturgeon food and stays mainly on the bottom.Dullamite;4449269; said:
The one thing you need to make sure is that if you keeping them they do get very big depending on variety, diamonds can hit 8 foot in the wild but in ponds they tend not to get much more above 4 foot in larger ponds. The essential thing to note is they require huge amounts of air when it warm, they will not do well in temps over 25, ours videoed has only started to get silly since the temp has started to go back down again. The other thing is they are not very tolerant to normal koi treatments and need to be removed during them(try finding somewhere to keep one when treating, I've got a picture of the big one in the spring before we got the second, I'll try and dig it up).
Would a four foot Strugeon try to eat a Kio or large Goldfish are they general peaceful fish when they get very big?