Its entirely possible.

I know of two similar places here in the UK!

One is a disused quarry, the work ceased in the quarry when they hit too many springs to bother pumping out the water, so they left it to fill.

This is probably several 100 feet deep in some places.... http://www.miac.org.uk/gullet.htm and i can say from first hand up close and bloody scary experience there are one helluva lot of extremely large koi type fish in there.... and probably a lot of other stuff but once you have come eyeball to eyeball with a big carp you stop swimming underwaterw ith your eyes open and adopt a 'if i cant see it, it cant slurp my toes off' policy.


The other place is near where i live now (sorry no pretty weblink), its the outfall pools for the water used for cooling in a dye works. The water is directed from a stream, through the factory and is pumped out into a series of smallish sheltered ponds, the top pond staying at a fairly constant 22c even during winter and a little higher in summer.

This is FULL of tropical fish, some koi that appear to like the temperature (id guess because it is a larger pond and quite deep there are cooler areas and obviously they wont suffer the same problems of poor water quality as its far more diluted than a garden pond or fishtank would be), but there are also terrapins in there and definatley some cichlids...

So if its possible here, id say its possible elsewhere!

i cant wait til you go back for pictures. it really does sound too good to be true but at the same time ALMOST anything is possible.

When will you be going back, I really wanna see pics!!!

I'm planning a trip for this Sunday, if all goes well. If not I will surely go next Sunday. I have family coming into town and it depends on when they leave, but I will get pics... don't worry!

hahahaha! I'm excited..... keep us all posted with some details....

were on the edge of our seats..

Well, i have to say somtihng about the fish you posted. It is a underwater photo, and i dont know many peeps who can take a underwater photo with such clarity, and i have never seen pond water that clear. One other thing, iuf the lake is so stocked with cichlids, then why isnt there alot of fish in the pic.

thats a pic of the fish he caught and took home

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, my bad.

i dont doubt it at all. someone at some point might have decided to release all their fish rather than rehoming or something and did it there. this is why governments have rules about flushing fish down the toilet etc as if theyre not quite dead they can end up causing big issues. i think it entirely possible that this has happened. wouldnt imagine they would be there naturally

did i miss the photo???? went through three times and no photo or link lol

He posted a photo of a fish he caught in the photos section


Maximus

You got a link to the article? I'm very curious to see it!

This post has been edited by aquaticadmirer: Jun 13 2007, 01:33 AM

she said that she dosent want people to know the location becasue she dosent want the population to be decimated( she pm'd me about it)

I want a location! lol.

I wish i could see something like that. I can't wait for photos!!

This all sounds very "The Beach"-esque to me...

I'll believe it when I can see your photos.

well, photos of the actual pond wont give the location out would it?

thank you

i dont know why people are having such a hard time believing this. onceagain it baffles me how distrusting people can be in here. many people in here mention how stable conditions can quite often be more important than exact requirements. dont animals adapt to surroundings over time???? if guppies have been reported living there since 64 and others have to, is it so hard to concieve of the notion that somehow over time these animals have adapted or whatever it is making them survive in the pond

This post has been edited by fishlette: Jun 13 2007, 10:06 AM

good old scientists will change their mind next year as to what fish can survive in...lol