Trout

[Elton]

Posted on behalf of Linda:

 

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could you please tell me if trout can breed in the garden pond.

thankyou

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[MrWiggly]

Hi Elton ..

 

All trout breeding farms I have seen use fast running water, but some also use relatively small pools. I don't see any reason why you cannot breed trout in a pond, but I would imagine that it would have to be very well aereated.

 

As to breeding procedures .. I will leave that advice to greater knowledge than mine, which I have no doubt will appear on this forum ....

[peter mccue]

Unfortunately not,

 

Trout require cool running water with a clean gravel bed on which to lay their eggs, very difficult conditions to re-create within the garden pond.

 

Trout farms do not breed Trout using natural methods. What they do is strip the eggs & milt artificially & hatch them out in tanks with a circulating flow.

[Steve Walker]

As Peter says, it's unlikely. With a lightly stocked koi setup, very strong flow and some kind of gravel stream section you might be able to provide the habitat and the water quality, but I think you'd have problems with the water temperature.