How good are cats at

[BEVUP]

Getting your fish from an above ground pond.

Have a pond about 2 mt x 2 mt x about 1mtr deep toped with Granite & a bench (table ) the same level on one side

Cats are about & one slipped in one night 

but just the other night they took 2 same looking Gold fish ( white & red in colour ), strange they got 2, I thought they would of been scared out of their mind after the first one.

Now I'm left with 3 orange ones, maybe it was due to the whiteness of them 

 

Are they that good

 

[jak2002003]

Yes.  Once they learn how to catch the fish they become masters at it.

 

Also birds will eat the fish... not just the heron / egret ones.. even some myna birds and crows can learn to catch the fish.  Many snakes here also love to eat fish.

 

Fish can also jump out of a raised pond and die.

 

Are you sure the cats are to blame?

 

In any case, I would suggest covering the top of you pond with netting to keep predators out.  You can make it over a frame, so you can take it off when you want to view the pond without unsightly netting over it.  

[BEVUP]

Thanks Jak may have to

Not sure if cats as their is a blind spot on my CCTV where the bench is & didn't really see cats from what i could see

only prowling around yard 

the remaining are pretty spooked 

[jak2002003]

4 minutes ago, BEVUP said:

Thanks Jak may have to

Not sure if cats as their is a blind spot on my CCTV where the bench is & didn't really see cats from what i could see

only prowling around yard 

the remaining are pretty spooked 

In the UK I had a small raised pond in the garden.  Was lovely to sit next to it and the fish were so tame they would all come to nibble on my fingers or looking to get fed. 

 

That was the problem... because a clever magpie used to watch me from the house roof.  It worked out that if it walked around the side of the pond and dropped bits of leaves into the water the fish would all come to it thinking they were being fed.  Then it would just pick on out of the water to eat!

 

Took me a while to realise where my fish were going.  Then early one morning I saw the magpie doing this.  It did this every day at the same time … for its fish breakfast, until I eventually had to cover the pond with a net.

 

 

[BEVUP]

About the only type of birds here are those brown Indian birds & little sparrows 

The fish would of been 5 cm in body alone