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[thesilverbeast]

My parents just got a holiday house that has a water feature/pond that is around 1m by 50cm, maybe a bit bigger, it has around 7 or so goldfish in it that are a nice healthy large size with some plants for cover and stuff and also theres at least 3 aquatic snails visible which means there could be heaps under all the plants, who knows (We've only seen the house twice for about 5 minutes each time so havent had a chance to really look properly)

Now, because its a holiday house we might be up there once a week at best so is there any way i can set this up for my parents to be a self sustaining pond so that they don't need to be fed or fed minimally? We don't mind if we're down there, but i don't know how often we will be!

Theres goldfish food tins there now which kinda indicates its not self sustaining but i don't know if the previous owners used it as a holiday house too and just fed them food as a bonus?

I don't know much about caring for fish, Its in Rye, Victoria if that helps with climate stuff.

Can anyone offer advice with these fish?

Thanks forum <3




p.s Im not buying an animal without knowing how to care for it, i researched for years for my lizard and snake before getting them but we had our final (and only) inspection today and found out they left the fish, we get the keys on monday so they will be foodless from then on so i gotta get it sorted pretty quickly.