Axies in a pond.

[doktordoris]

Hiya,
Can one keep axies in a garden pond, in the UK, with goldfish?

Of would he be too cold, or eat the fish? Mind you the fish are HUGE.

Cheers

 

[Markw]

I wouldnt do it. Water changes are frequent in a pond and the axie would become easilly stressed. Im sure there are other reasons why not, and someone will get to them im sure. Good luck with deciding. The waster conditions and possible outside problems (bird matter, predators..etc) are too risky for me.

Mark

 

[doktordoris]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

It wasn't a thing I was necessarily planning on doing, I was just wondering if it would be okay.

Thanks again
cheerio

 

[Jennewt]

Also, the goldfish would probably peck at the axolotls to some extent. If you were raising some axie eggs, it might be worth trying raising some in a pond (minus the goldfish). But I wouldn't put an established adult outdoors, it's just too risky.

 

[Kaysie]

In addition to the risk of the fish making a snack out of the axie, you also should worry about other predators: Birds, cats, other mammals (I don't know if you have raccoons or not over there). They'll all make a snack out of your axie.

 

[SludgeMunkey]

Yeah, it's a great concept, but I tried an outdoor axolotl pond and got a really fat population of various herons and raccoons. A few rather voracious snakes helped out too.